Patent ID: 6351624
Filing Date: 2002-02-26
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
A document pressing device, comprising:document supporting means mounted on a main body for supporting a document; document covering means for covering the document supporting means and pressing the document against the document supporting means; adjusting means for supporting an opening/closing fulcrum of the document covering means and being slidable in a thickness direction of the document according to the thickness of the document supported by the document supporting means; holding means which can hold an opening and closing side of the document covering means for sliding in the thickness direction of the document in synchronization with the sliding movement of the adjusting means; engaging means disposed on the opening and closing side of the document covering means for engaging with the holding means to give the document covering means a pressing force for pressing the document against the document supporting means; and engagement releasing means for releasing the engagement of the engaging means from the holding means.