Recirculating document feeder
CA 1100537 A · Owner: Savin Corporation · Inventors: Hori, Tatsu
Overview
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Originals are individually separated from the bottom of a stack overlying the imaging platen of a document copier and are advanced around a first 180° bend onto the platen for copying. After they are copied, the originals are returned to the top of the stack around a second 180° bend at the other end of the platen. Each original is advanced to the imaging platen a number of times equal to the number of copies to be made to produce collated sets of copies from the copier. A relatively flat place-marking member initially placed on the uppermost original drops down when that original is fed to generate a signal indicating that the entire set of originals has been advanced once to the imaging …
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- Granted May 5, 1981. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended May 5, 1998.
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