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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 1993
Filed:
Mar. 25, 1992
Yasushi Yamada, Hachioji, JP;
Yoshikazu Maekawa, Hachioji, JP;
Osamu Murata, Hachioji, JP;
Yoshio Ueda, Hachioji, JP;
Masanobu Kawano, Hachioji, JP;
Konica Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An automatic document feeding apparatus in which a plurality of documents are sequentially fed to an image exposure section. Before the completion of the exposure of a foregoing document, the feeding of a following document is started to place the document on a given position before the image exposure section and stopped thereon temporarily for stand-by. The position of the temporary stop of the following document can be varied in accordance with document size detecting signals from a document size detector or selected in such a manner that the distance between the trailing end of the foregoing document and the leading end of the following document becomes constant substantially irrespective of the size of the document.