Patent Document ID: 5384631
Application ID: 08156816

Base Claim:
1. An apparatus for feeding a document to an image reading section of an image forming apparatus, comprising: a document table for stacking a plurality of documents; feeding means for separating one by one the documents stacked on said document table and for feeding the documents one by one to the image reading section from said document table; means for detecting if the feeding means has simultaneously fed more than one document; first control means for controlling said feeding means to reversely feed the documents to said document table over a predetermined distance when said detecting means detects that two or more documents have been simultaneously fed by said feeding means; second control means for controlling said feeding means to separate the documents, fed to said document table by said first control means and feed the documents one by one to the image reading section again; means for counting the number of operations of said second control means; and third control means for stopping said first control means and said second control means when said counting means counts to a predetermined number.

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Claim 2:
2. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said feeding means includes a first roller for feeding the documents stacked on said document table and a second roller for separating the documents fed by said first roller, and said first control means includes fourth control means for controlling a rotating direction of the second roller and fifth control means for controlling an operation of said first roller so that said feeding means feeds the documents to said document table.