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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:
Dec. 01, 1992
Filed:
Mar. 13, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Rika Hino, Tokyo, JP;
Yasufumi Tanimoto, Fujisawa, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355309 ; 355313 ; 271-9 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus is so constructed that, even when, during a portion of a processing for feeding the medium from one of a plurality of medium storage sections, the medium storage section involved becomes empty in the case where there exists, in the other medium storage section or sections, those mediums equal to or greater than the aforementioned medium which are not to be continuously fed, it is possible to continuously feed a medium from the medium storage section only arbitrarily selected in accordance with the order of priority.