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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 1986
Filed:
Nov. 07, 1984
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ; B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355 / ; 355 / ; 271-3 ; 271-4 ;
Abstract
An automatic sheet feeder for feeding a sheet to a processing station to record the information on the sheet. Also, an image recording apparatus provided with such an automatic sheet feeder. The automatic sheet feeder includes a sheet stacking tray for supporting a stack of sheets, a feeder for feeding one by one the sheets out of the stack, a processing station for effecting a required processing to the surface of the sheet bearing the information to be recorded, which is being advanced by the feeder, and a conveyor for returning the sheet which has passed through the processing station to the stacking tray.