Patent ID: 7136202

Claim:
An apparatus for feeding documents in a facsimile, comprising; a pickup roller for picking up a document and transferring said document along a path; a read module for reading said document disposed in said path; a white roller disposed to receive said document transferred from said pickup roller and feed said document along said path formed between said white roller and said read module facing said white roller; a discharge roller disposed to receive said document fed from said white roller and said read module along said path, discharging said document outside said apparatus after said document is fed by said read module; a driving unit; a power transmission mechanism selectively driven by said driving unit to transmit power of driving unit only to said pickup roller, or to all of said pickup roller, said white roller and said discharge roller simultaneously; and a controller for controlling said power transmission mechanism to be connected either only to said pickup roller or all of said pickup roller, said white roller, and said discharge roller.