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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 1990
Filed:
Jun. 16, 1989
Hiroyuki Arai, Hachioji, JP;
Tsugio Hirabayashi, Hachioji, JP;
Konica Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An automatic document conveyer for respectively conveying documents to a position for copying by a copy machine. The document conveyer has a document holder where the documents are set to be conveyed a first document conveyer which conveys the bottom document into a second document conveyer. The second document conveyer has pressure rollers which provides a flat area along with a conveyance belt to hold the conveyed document at a predetermined position beyond the first pressure roller of the pressure rollers so that the conveyed document of a different size is under the pressure of the second conveyer. The document conveyer also has a document turn-over mechanism to which the conveyed document is conveyed by the second document conveyer in the reversible direction in order to be turned over without a copying process, and the conveyed document is turned back to the predetermined position and further to the position for copying.