Patent ID: 9694998
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: B65H,H04N

Claim:
1. An image reading apparatus, comprising: a document tray; and an automatic document feeding unit disposed at an upper side of the document tray to transport documents to pass through the upper side of the document tray, wherein the automatic document feeding unit comprises a body; a document supplying tray having a first width corresponding to a width of a first document to be scanned and at which the first document to be scanned is loaded; and an auxiliary guide having a second width that is smaller than the first width to correspond to a second document having a width smaller than the width of the first document and installed at the document supplying tray, the body comprises a pick-up roller to pick up documents to be scanned; and a mounting unit provided at a lower portion of the pick-up roller and at which front ends of the documents loaded at the document supplying tray are mounted, the auxiliary guide comprises a guide portion to support both widthwise sides of the document to be scanned, the guide portion extending into the mounting unit past a leading edge of the pick-up roller, the document supplying tray is rotatably installed at the body, the auxiliary guide is separably installed at the document supplying tray, and the auxiliary guide is configured to be detached from the document supplying tray when rotating the document supplying tray.