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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:
Feb. 02, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358296 ; 358401 ; 399 85 ; 399367 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus including an ADF for automatically feeding a plurality of originals, a mechanism for selecting a continuous mode, in the continuous mode the plurality of originals separately fed by the ADF a plurality of number of times are processed as a series of originals, a mechanism for reading the images of the plurality of originals, a memory for storing as a series of images, the images read from the originals fed while the continuous mode is selected, and a printer for forming the series of images stored in the memory in a predetermined order.