JPS57203368A - Original feeding device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To perform the plane scanning of an original without using a platen, by using a lower original guide having an opening part and an original touch means which secures a touch between the original and an upper original guide at an area near the opening part. CONSTITUTION:An original 3 is guided by the guide plates 6 and 7 to be fed into a gap between an upper original guide 16 and a lower original guide 17 by a driving roll 19. When the tip of the original 3 reaches a position right above an opening part 23 of the guide 17, the original 3 is read at an original reading area A. An original lacking firmness goes downward gradually by its empty weight as the original advances right above the part 23 However, a slant guide part 17A functions to reset the tip of the original 3 to the normal route. Thus the original 3 passed through the part 23 has a contact with an actuator to push it down. At the same time, a weight protrudes through a small hole 24 and presses the original 3 moving above the weight to the lower face of the guide 16. Under such conditions, the original 3 moves to the contact part between the rolls 21 and 22.