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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 1995
Filed:
Apr. 22, 1994
Takeshi Yoshida, Osaka, JP;
Takeshi Matsuo, Osaka, JP;
Yasuhiko Kida, Osaka, JP;
Masayuki Kakuta, Osaka, JP;
Tsuyoshi Nagao, Osaka, JP;
Mita Industrial Co., Ltd., , JP;
Abstract
An automatic document feeder for an image processing machine. The document feeder includes a main frame to be pivotally mounted on the image processing machine, a paper feeding unit, a paper discharging unit, and a conveyer belt for conveying papers from the paper feeding unit, across the image processing machine for image processing, to the paper discharging unit for discharge. A document discharging tray is positioned above the conveyer belt for receipt and stacking of papers discharged from a discharge port of the paper discharging unit. In the direction of document discharge, the document discharging tray has an ascending inclination, followed by a descending inclination. The ascending inclination and the descending inclination define a vertex spaced from the discharge port in the document discharging direction by more than one-half the length of the maximum-length document to be processed by the image processing machine.