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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 1989
Filed:
Apr. 01, 1988
Shiro Saeki, Yokohama, JP;
Sunao Ikeda, Yokohama, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An automatic original circulating and feeding apparatus apparatus comprises an original feeding base for receiving a plurality of originals thereon, which are piled up with image faces thereof turned downwardly, an original separating and feeding device for successively separating the piled up originals on the original feeding basee one by one from a lowermost original and feeding them one by one in an order separated, a reversible and speed-changeable belt conveyor device disposed in an exposure part for exposing each of the orignals fed, and a sensor disposed at a position separated by at least the largest original length from the original separating and feeding mechanism, for selectively setting a scanning copy mode or a sheet through copy mode and for controlling a position of the original for a copy mode selected.