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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 1991
Filed:
Aug. 01, 1990
Wataru Hamakawa, Toyokawa, JP;
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An automatic document feeder and a copying apparatus for copying respective images of two successive documents on one copying sheet and a control means for controlling the copying operation is provided. The copying apparatus copies the image of a first document placed at a first position on the platen of the copier in one half of a copying sheet and stores the copying sheet carrying the image for the next copying operation. When a seond document is placed in position on the platen by an automatic document feeder, the copying apparatus will copy the image of the second document in the other half of the copying sheet. Control arrangements permit the control of the image forming and sheet feeding operations so that an image of the first document and the image of the second document are provided on the respective halves of the copying sheet.