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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 1993
Filed:
Nov. 06, 1991
Masahiko Nakao, Suita, JP;
Mita Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A single tray serves both as an intermediate tray, for temporarily stacking paper sheets between copying operations thereon when such paper sheets are copies plural times, and as a paper discharging tray for stacking paper sheets subjected to final copying. The tray is arranged on the upstream side of a paper resupplying device. The tray includes a first paper stacking portion and a second paper stacking portion separable from each other. A paper discharging device is provided with a branching guide arranged at an upstream side of a paper discharging location for branching a paper sheet of maximum size on which an image has been formed toward the tray and positioned so that a leading end of the paper sheet when housed in the tray will not reach a paper resupplying roller of the paper resupplying device.