Facsimile apparatus

• US 5,325,214 A
• Filed: 05/26/1992
• Issued: 06/28/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Ijuin, Kazuya, Kasuya, Michio, Otsuki, Shinnichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Ip, Paul
• Application Number:
  US07/887,812
• Time in Patent Office: 763 Days
• Field of Search: 358/285, 358/286, 358/293, 358/298, 358/498, 358/304, 358/483, 358/256, 358/401, 358/471, 358/296, 358/447, 358/294, 358/497, 358/304, 358/449, 358/474, 358/406, 358/429, 355/311, 355/321, 355/200, 355/230, 346/1.1, 346/107 R, 346/160, 346/136, 346/76 PH, 271/10, 271/110, 271/118, 271/122, 271/256, 271/9
• US Class Current: 358/476
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00519 Constructional details not otherwise provided for, e.g. housings, covers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00554 Latches or hinges therefor

Abstract

An original feeding apparatus is structured with a first housing and second housing to enable the second housing to be opened and closed, and is provided with a feeding member for carrying an original respectively in the first housing and second housing. The original feeding apparatus according to the present invention is characterized by providing the aforesaid first housing with an original inlet for inserting an original and an original outlet for exhausting the original and at the same time, arranging the first housing to serve dually as an upper guiding plane when an original is fed while the second housing to serve dually as a lower guiding plane at the time of the original being fed.

Claims

1. A facsimile apparatus including the following:

a first housing as an upper cover;

a second housing as a lower cover, said second housing forming the main body of an apparatus together with said first housing to enable said first housing to be opened and closed;

an original reading unit for reading an original, said original reading unit being provided in said first housing and second housing;

a recording unit for performing recording on a recording medium, said recording unit being provided in said first housing and second housing;

an original feeding path for carrying an original to said original reading unit, said original feeding path having the upper and lower guiding planes for feeding an original, and the upper guiding plane being formed on said first housing and the lower guiding plane being formed on said second housing; and

a feeding path for carrying a recording medium to said recording unit, said feeding path being provided in said first housing and second housing.

2. A facsimile apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said first housing has an original inlet for inserting an original and an original outlet for exhausting the original.

3. A facsimile apparatus including the following:

a first housing as an upper cover, said first housing having an original inlet for inserting an original and an original outlet for exhausting the original;

a second housing as a lower cover, said second housing forming the main body of an apparatus together with said first housing to enable said first housing to be opened and closed;

an original reading unit for reading an original, said original reading unit being provided in said first housing and second housing; and

an original feeding path for carrying an original to said original reading unit, said original feeding path having the upper and lower guiding planes for feeding an original, and the upper guiding plane being formed on said first housing and the lower guiding plane being formed on said second housing.