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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 1991
Filed:
Nov. 28, 1990
Toshiyuki Nagano, Yokohama, JP;
Naomasa Kimura, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides an image forming apparatus having an image forming portion, means for feeding a sheet material to the image forming portion and a re-feeding path for re-feeding the sheet on which an image is formed at the image forming portion to the image forming portion again. The image forming apparatus comprises a manual sheet feed inlet formed in the front side of said image forming apparatus; a manual sheet insertion path for directing a sheet material manually inserted into the manual sheet feed inlet to the re-feeding path, the manual sheet insertion path being arranged substantially perpendicular to the re-feeding path; and a feeding means for feeding the manually inserted sheet material directed to the re-feeding path to the image forming portion.