Patent ID: 6585258
Filing Date: 2003-07-01
Classification: G03G,H04N

Abstract:
An automatic document feeder comprising:a document feeding path for guiding a document conveyed in a forward direction toward a document reading portion from a document feeding portion; a conveying roller which forwardly and reversely rotates and conveys the document along said document feeding path, said document being conveyed in the forward direction by said conveying roller when the conveying roller is forwardly rotated; a document discharging path for guiding said document conveyed in the forward direction toward a document discharging portion from said document reading portion; and a document shunting path for accommodating therein at least a part of said document which is conveyed in a reverse direction and which passes over said document reading portion when said conveying roller is reversely rotated, wherein said document feeding path, said document discharging path and said document shunting path are arranged with at least a part of each being overlapped with one another in a vertical direction.