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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 1989
Filed:
Jul. 25, 1988
Nobukazu Sasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiro Kasamura, Yokohama, JP;
Atsushi Kubota, Tokyo, JP;
Toshihiko Kusumoto, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsuya Shiratori, Yokohama, JP;
Takashi Ozawa, Ichikawa, JP;
Yasuyoshi Yamamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Michiro Koike, Kawasaki, JP;
Masashi Ohashi, Tokyo, JP;
Akiyoshi Kimura, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A document feeding apparatus comprising a first original supporting device on which an original is placed, an original inlet port for receiving the original placed on the first original supporting device, a conveying device for guiding the original fed from the inlet port to a predetermined position and exhausting the original from the predetermined position, and a second original supporting device mounted on a housing of the document feeding apparatus and having an image area designation device for designating an image area of the original. In an image area designation mode of the apparatus, the original is placed on the image area designation device, a desired image area is designated, and the original is placed on the first original supporting device and is guided to the predetermined position through the inlet port.