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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 1977
Filed:
Oct. 23, 1975
Tatsu Hori, Los Altos, CA (US);
Kenneth W Gardiner, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Norman F Mangal, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Savin Business Machines Corporation, Valhalla, NY (US);
Abstract
A semi-automatic document feeder for use with a photocopying machine in which each of a plurality of parallel spaced belts supported by first and secondary pulley assemblies has a lower traverse running across the machine imaging platen. Documents which are introduced to the feeder through an entrance port located near the top of one of said pulley assemblies, are guided around said pulley assembly onto a lower transport path defined by the plurality of belts and the imaging platen, and are stopped for copying by a gate located on the opposite edge of the machine platen and arranged to be moved into and out of the path of a document.