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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 12, 1998
Hiroyuki Harada, Osaka, JP;
Toru Tanjo, Osaka, JP;
Kazuhisa Kondo, Osaka, JP;
Jun Kusakabe, Osaka, JP;
Masahiro Sako, Osaka, JP;
Hiroshi Kobayashi, Osaka, JP;
Mita Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A document feeder which has a document transportation path curved with a curvature radius such that a document original is reversed and fed therethrough to a document setting surface. The document feeder further includes a pair of rollers respectively disposed inside and outside of the curvature of the document transportation path in an opposed relation and adapted to hold the document original therebetween for guiding the document original to the document setting surface. The rollers abut against each other in a position upstream of the vertex of the curvature of the document transportation path with respect to a document transportation direction.