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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:
Mar. 26, 1991
Filed:
Nov. 16, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kiyoshige Kameda, Higashiosaka, JP;
Assignee:
Mita Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355 75 ; 355 72 ; 355 25 ;
Abstract
A mechanism for opening and closing an automatic document feeder comprising a body-side support portion having a post removably insertable into a mount cavity in the body of an apparatus, a feeder-side support portion biased upward by a coiled spring, a pivot pivotally movably supporting the feeder-side support portion on the body-side support portion, positioning means for determining the distance between the pivot and the body, and adjusting means for varying the distance determined by the positioning means.