Abstract:
A document copier machine with an automatic document feeder (ADF) combined with a semiautomatic document feeder (SADF) is operated according to a job recovery procedure in which multiple originals may need recopying in order to replace copies destroyed when a jam occurs. The procedure calls for feeding the required number of originals needed for recopy through the SADF and once the jam recovery is complete, automatic restarting of the ADF occurs in order to complete the job interrupted by the jam.
Abstract:
An automatic sheet feeder for a copying machine etc. for correctly resuming a continuous copying operation after power to the sheet feeder (as well as the copying machine) is stopped by an emergency (safety) power stop. The copying machine has a state memory in which the state of the automatic sheet feeder (whether it is operating or not operating) at the time of a power stoppage to the automatic sheet feeder is stored. When the supply of power to the automatic sheet feeder begins, the state data is sent from the copying machine to the automatic short feeder. When the state data from the copying machine indicates that the sheet feeder was not operating, the automatic sheet feeder performs a preset initializing process in which the feeding rollers are rotated to eject the original sheet on the contact glass plate of the copying machine. When the state data indicates that the sheet feeder was operating when the power supply was stopped however the sheet feeder does not perform the initializing process and the original sheet still on the contact glass plate (which has not yet copied due to the emergency stop) is copied, and the continuous copying operation is resumed without missing any copies of plural original sheets.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus having a document transporting mechanism which transports documents one by one from a document feed tray, to the exposure location on a platen and which prefeeds the next document to a position before the platen, and a control mechanism which in response to an instruction of stopping the image form operation controls the operation of the document transporting mechanism so as to transport a document prefed to the position before the platen, in a predetermined direction. When a trouble occurs in the main body of the image forming apparatus during the image forming operation and the stop instruction is issued, a document on the platen is immediately transported to a document discharge tray, and also a document which has been prefed to the position before the platen is transported to a predetermined position (onto the platen, the document discharge tray or the document feed tray). The prefed document is not left stand in a loop state for a long period of time, thereby preventing a document from having a tendency to curl and a document jam from occurring.
Abstract:
A copying apparatus comprises a document glass, an automatic document feeder that is free to be opened and closed with respect to the document glass, a paper feeding means, means for storing image formed papers and an image forming means. The image forming means is operable in a special paper-passing mode that permits the transfer paper to be ejected into the storing means without having the image formed thereon. The copying apparatus is provided with means for detecting the open and close actions of the automatic document feeder so that an alarm can be issued to remind the operator of the document left on the document glass according to the signal issued by the detecting means after the operation of the image forming means has been completed, and the operation of the alarm means can be inhibited after the operation of the image forming means in said paper-passing mode has been completed.
Abstract:
A copying apparatus equipped with an automatic duplexed original document feeding device, which is so arranged that, in the course of operation for an original document in an original document feeding path, after suspension of the operation, any remaining operation with respect to said original document can be rapidly and correctly resumed. The status of the copying operation is monitored and stored, and upon restoration of the copying cycle the document can be correctly positioned to continue the copying cycle as if the copying operation had never been interrupted.
Abstract:
A copying machine with an ADF, has an AF section for separating originals in an original tray one by one, a DF section for feeding the separated original to an exposure position on a photosensitive drum, a normal original insertion port for receiving originals during normal operation, a return original insertion port for allowing insertion of return originals which must be fed again after a jam has occurred, sensors for detecting the number of copies which have been produced, the number of return originals, and the number of sheets remaining in the machine, and microcomputers for controlling the operation of the copying machine and the ADF. An interrupt copy operation can be performed with a simple operation at any time.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus has an original conveying apparatus, a scanning device for scanning an original image of the original on the original support glass plate, an image forming portion for forming an image on the basis of the original image read by the scanning device, a recording sheet supply portion for supplying a recording sheet to the image forming portion through a convey path, and a control device for controlling in such a manner that, when the image of each original is formed on N recording sheets, a subsequent original on the original stacking device starts to be supplied during a scanning of the image for a last N-th recording sheet, wherein the N is more than 1.
Abstract:
A document handling system and method for automatically and successively transporting documents is provided. The system includes a primary path and means feeding documents in a predetermined sequence along the primary path from a stack of documents. The document handler system also provides a means for transporting selected ones of the document along the path to an upstream portion of the primary path out of the sequence and means for returning the selected ones of the documents to the other fed documents so that the combined documents are arranged in a collated manner corresponding to the predetermined sequence. The method of the present invention includes the steps of feeding documents in sequence along the path from a stack of documents, diverting selected ones of the fed documents from the defined path to an upstream portion of the path output so that the combined documents are in sequence again. The invention includes a secondary or shunt path which acts as a buffer for holding sheet units previously passing through the processing station. The secondary path is arranged to permit selected return of ones of the documents in the secondary path to the processing station while providing sequential return of the documents to the primary path for transport to the sheet output. Thus, the document handling system and method provides for selective reprocessing of documents to promote job recovery operations.
Abstract:
An automatic original feeding apparatus has a coordinates position detecting device provided with a supporting table for supporting thereon a sheet original of which the area during image formation is to be designated, a conveying device for directing the inserted sheet original to a predetermined position, and a feed device provided upstream of the conveying device and responsive to the termination of the area designation to change over to a feeding position and feed the sheet original on the supporting table to the conveying device.
Abstract:
A machine has a control panel with a plurality of keys controlling various functions. A display exhibits prompts as to the proper operation of the machine. An operator can learn the functions of the keys by manipulating them and observing the resulting prompts. The display additionally exhibits maintenance and (in a diagnostic mode) diagnostic prompts. Sensors respond to various maintenance or diagnostic conditions. Signals from the sensors cause a storage means to supply corresponding prompts to the display to prompt the needed maintenance or diagnostic procedure. When the appropriate procedure has been performed, additional prompts for subsequent procedures will be displayed if appropriate.