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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 1988
Filed:
Jul. 18, 1984
Takeshi Honjo, Kawasaki, JP;
Naomi Takahata, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An automatic original feeder for automatically feeding two sides of an original document to a reading position for image recording, and an image recording apparatus provided with such a feeder. The automatic original feeder of the present invention includes a supporting member for supporting the originals, a feed device for separating and feeding the originals on the support member one by one, a guide mechanism for inverting an even number of times, the top side and bottom sides of the original fed by the feed means to guide a first side of the original to the reading position, a device for discharging the original, after the first side is read, from a direction the same as that through which the original is guided to the reading position, a device for inverting the top sides and bottom side of the discharged original and feeding the second side of the original to the reading position, and a device for returning the original, after the reading of the second side thereof, to the supporting member from a direction the same as that through which the original is fed to the reading position.