JPS60113572A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain miniaturization and compactness of a piece of equipment by arranging a transmission original feeding part and a transmitted original containing part so that they will form layers each other, and forming a three-layer structure by arranging the contain part of a recorded sheet at the upper side or the lower side. CONSTITUTION:A transmission original feed table 20 while has an inclination on one side gently is provided at the upper face central part of an equipment main body 10, and a feeding paper roller 21 which constitutes an automatic feeding paper mechanism and a separation plate 22 are provided at the neighboring end. The original which is fed by this automatic feeding paper mechanism is discharged to inside a flat stucker 30 which uses the bottom face inside the case of the equipment main body 10 as the transmitted original through the carrier mechanism which is composed of a carrier roller 24 and a rear plate 25 after the original is read by the scanning part. On the other hand, a record paper stucker 40, which stocks the recorded paper with the almost same inclined angle with this feed stand 20, is provided, and the miniaturization and the compactness of the whole device are obtained by forming a three-layer structure as a whole.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Technical field of Zul~mon] The present invention relates to improvements in facsimile machines.

[Technical background of the invention]

Recently, many facsimile machines d have small and compact structures due to advances in electronic component integration technology. Is that what Figure 1 (&') to (e) look like? This is an example of +&, which has 41 illusions as follows. That is, in the case shown in (a), a document supplying section 2 is provided obliquely at the front end of the upper surface of the apparatus main body 1 which is in the form of a data guru, and the transmission fg,@3 supplied from the supplying section 2 is sent to the main body of the apparatus. The recording sheet 5 is read by a reading scanning unit housed in the storage space and then discharged to a vertical stacker 4 disposed on the side or lower front of the apparatus body 1, and the recording sheet 5 is discharged onto the upper surface of the apparatus body. The structure is as follows. On the other hand, the one shown in (b) is provided with a document supply section 6 that protrudes toward the front end on the top surface of the apparatus main body, and supplies the document 3 from this supply section 6 to the reading scanning section inside the apparatus main body. Now do ruu4'y, shi,
The scanned original document 3' is stored in a flat stacker 7 protruding from the front end of the main body of the apparatus d, and the recording sheet 5 is discharged onto the upper surface of the main body J of the apparatus toward the rear. . In addition, the device shown in (c) is provided with an original supply section 8 on the top surface of the apparatus main body 1, supplies a transmission original '+'i43 to the reading scanning section in the apparatus main body 1, and transfers the original 3' after reading to the apparatus. The recording sheet 5 is discharged to a flat stacker 7 protruding from the front side surface of the main body 1, and the recording sheet 5 is discharged from the front side surface of the main body 1, and is disposed on the lower blade of the flat star and cuff. It is configured to stock in a stacker 9.

[Problems with Jinsang technology]

However, in all of these conventional devices, at least one of the document supply section and the stacker protrudes from the main body 1 of the device, so the supply section or the stacker may get in the way when the device is set up on a desk or the like. In some cases, installation locations were limited, and in some cases, it was not possible to install ICs.

Furthermore, since the supply section or the stacker protrudes from the main body of the apparatus, even if the main body of the apparatus itself is small, the installation area tends to be large.

[Purpose of the invention]

The present invention maintains the device main body in a small size and eliminates the protruding part from the device main body, thereby making it possible to install the device in any location, reducing the installation area, and making it easier to install. It is an object of the present invention to provide a facsimile device that can be further miniaturized and more compact.

[Summary of the invention]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention arranges a transmission document supply section and a document storage section in a U4 layer, and stores recorded sheets above or below it. A storage section is provided, and the recorded sheet storage section, the transmission document supply section and the transmitted document storage section have a three-layer structure, and the main part of the apparatus is installed in the space formed between each of the layers. It has been accommodated.

[Embodiments of the invention]

2. FIGS. 1 and 3 show the structure of a facsimile machine according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the external appearance, and FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along arrow 11.

At the center of the upper surface of the apparatus main body JO, there is provided a transmission original supply table 2o which is gently inclined to one side. The transmission original supply table 20 has a leading end inserted into the housing of the apparatus main body 10, and a paper feeding roller 2 and a separation roller 22, which constitute an automatic paper feeding mechanism, are respectively arranged near the leading end. There is.

Further, a paper guide 23, a conveyance roller 24 and a back plate 25, which constitute a conveyance mechanism, are respectively arranged on the lower part of the automatic paper feed mechanism on the document sending side. A stacker 30 is provided. This flat stacker 30 utilizes the bottom surface of the housing of the device main body IO, and the side surface of the device main body No. 0 corresponding to the black part of the device main body is opened over two sides and functions as a take-out section for feeding (M) originals. It is supposed to be done.

On the other hand, a recording paper stacker 40 for stocking recorded paper (recording paper), which is inclined at approximately the same angle as the sender manuscript supply table 20, is disposed above the sender document supply table 20.

On the base end side of this recording paper stacker 400, a recording section 4 and an automatic cutter 42 are respectively arranged in the recording paper transport direction. The recording section 4 includes a thermal head 43 and a recording roller 44 thereof. Further, a roll paper 45 is disposed below the recording section 4 and at a position to the side of the automatic paper feeding mechanism and the paper guide 23. This roll paper 45 is housed in a case 46, and this case 4
A circuit board 5 configuring a recording control circuit and the like is installed in a space formed between the casing 6 and the bottom surface of the housing of the apparatus main body.

In addition, in the space formed between the transmission original supply table 20 and the flat stacker 30 for sending 8 originals, there is a circuit board &52 consisting of a reading scanning section 60, its control circuit, a transmission/reception port 'M, etc. are accommodated respectively. Reading scanning section 6
0, 6 light sources are arranged near the guide 23, and the reflection team of Kazu Okutsukuda is illuminated by the 6 light sources with the mirror 62.
After being reflected by the optical system 63, the light is received by a light receiving section 64 made of a solid-state imaging device.

Because of this groove bottom, the feed 1 original 70 is set on the sending original supply table 20 as shown in FIG. 3, for example. If you start the transmission operation in this state, the transmission original supply table 2
The document on the lowest layer of No. 0 is transferred to the reading scanning position by the automatic paper feeding mechanism, and is read by the ωC scanning unit 6θ. Then, the original document 7 which has been read (sent original document) is transferred to the flat stacker 3o by the conveyance mechanism, and is stacked as shown in the figure. These sent documents are taken out through the side opening of the main body 1o of the apparatus.

On the other hand, when receiving a call or copying, the roll paper 45 is transferred to the recording scanning section 4.
It is pulled out by the platen roller 44 and recorded by the heat-sensitive disk 43. After that, when the recording of information for one sheet is completed, the rear end is cut by the self-excited cutter 42 and the recording paper is cut. It is transferred to the stacker 40 and layered.

In this way, in the case of the B37 of this embodiment, the feeding tower manuscript table 20, the flat stacker 30 for stocking sent manuscripts, and the recording paper stacker 4θ for stocking recording paper are arranged in layers with each other. Moreover, the main parts such as the reading scanning section and the circuit board are arranged between the transmission original supply table 20 and the flat stacker 30 for sent originals, so that the main body of the apparatus can be kept small and , each stacker 30. '40 can be housed in the device, thereby eliminating the protrusion from the device body and making the device compact. As a result, when installing the device on a desk, for example, various restrictions such as separating the rear of the device from the wall or aligning the front end with the edge of the desk can be eliminated, increasing the degree of freedom in installation. can be increased. Also, by eliminating the protruding part, the installation space can be removed.

Note that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments.

For example, in the above embodiment, the transmission source 1670 and the roll paper 45 are transported! -4: The inscription was set as shown in Figure 4 (a), but the inscription was set as shown in Figure 4 (b), ((ri ~ Figure 11 (a)
, The settings may be made with various modifications as shown in (b).

That is, FIGS. 4(b) and 4(e) show roll 2 paper 45.
Figure 5 (a) and (b) are 6.
- In contrast to Fig. J4 (a), the transport direction of the roll paper 45 is left as is, and the transport direction of the sender fA7o is reversed after A, and Figs. 6 (a) and (b) are the roll paper. An example in which only the transport direction of the paper 45 is reversed, FIGS. An example in which the roll paper 45 is set in the opposite direction, FIGS. 8(a) and 8(b), is shown in FIG. 9(a), in which the position of the roll paper 45 is set below the transport path of the sending KX document 70.

(b) ID Figure 8 (a), (b)
The transport direction of fi'j+70 was reversed. U, Figure 10 (a) and (b) are Figure 8 (a) and (b)
116(a) and 116(b) are examples in which the transport direction of the roll paper 45 is reversed.
This is an example in which the transfer direction of i4'=4s is set to be opposite to that of FIGS. 8(a) and 8(b) by 61''.

In each of the above figures, F is the front and back of the device line body,
B indicates the rear 1ii+, and 6o indicates the reading scanning section 4
The position h: is shown. In addition, the front and rear (F
, B) The direction may be the left-right direction.

Furthermore, in each of the embodiments described above, the main parts such as the reading scanning unit are arranged in the space between the transmission document supply table and the transmission analysis document stacker. It may be arranged between the paper stacker and the paper stacker. In addition, the structure of each of the storage units for transmitted originals and recording paper, the structure of the transmitted original supply table, the arrangement positions and configurations of the main parts, etc. can be modified without departing from the gist of the present invention.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above in detail, the present invention has a three-layer structure in which the sending source 111 supply section, the sending original supply table, and the recording sheet storage section are arranged in layers, and there is no space between these layers. By accommodating the main part of the device in the empty space MJ formed in the space, the main body of the device can be kept small.1.The ejection part from the main body of the device can be eliminated, which allows the main body of the device to be installed without having to go far from the installation location. In addition to making it possible to set up one side, M?
It is possible to provide a facsimile device that can be used to print multiple documents, and can be made smaller and more compact.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIGS. 1(a) to (a) are perspective views schematically showing conventional facsimile machines, and FIGS. 2 and 3 show facsimile machines according to an embodiment of the present invention. A perspective view showing the appearance of the device, Figure 3 is I-1.
4(a) is a schematic diagram showing the transfer path of the transmission original and roll paper of the same device, and FIG. 4(b) is a sectional view taken in the direction of arrows.
c) ~Figure 11(a). (b) is a schematic diagram showing other different embodiments of the present invention. No. 0...Device main body, 20...Transmission original supply table, 30
...Flat stacker for sent originals, 40...Recording paper stacker, 45...Roll paper, sJ, s;z...Circuit board, 60...Reading scanning unit, 70... Submitted manuscript,
7. Manuscript sent. Applicant's Representative Patent Attorney Suzue Takehiko No. 1 (a) (b) 8 (a) (a) 10 (a) 111 (a) 〇- (b) Figure (b) Figure (b) ) (b)

Claims (1)

[Claims] A transmission document supply section and a transmission completed manuscript collection section are arranged in a layered manner, and a storage section for recorded sheets is arranged above or below the transmission document supply section and a storage section for storing recorded sheets. A facsimile machine characterized by having a three-layer structure including a transmission document supply section, a transmission document supply section, and a transmission document storage section, and a device main fold section is housed in a space formed between these layers.