PURPOSE: To enable automatic feed of a cover, by a method wherein a paper feed table, a separating means, and a feeding means for a cover are located separately from a printing paper receiving means, and the feeding means is coupled to a stack means through a guide.
CONSTITUTION: When a cover is needed, the presence of the cover is detected by a sensor 55, and based on the detection, a paper feed roller 7 is driven at a timing at which the cover 3 is fed to a delivery part B before a duplicating paper 1 for a first item is conveyed to the delivery part B. The cover 3 is placed on an intermediate tray 33 of an intermediate stacking part D through delivery rollers 15, 16 and a guide 27, and is orderly arranged in a position with the aid of a push plate 37. The cover 3 passes through a pinch roller 11, and through detection of sensors 56 and 57, duplicating papers are orderly fed from a duplicator 1 to an intermediate stacking part D. After one set of the papers are fed, a paper group on the tray 33 is fed to a finishing part E through a roller 39 with the aid of a belt 36. This also permits simultaneous supply of the cover.
MURAKAMI HISASHI
YAMAZAKI HIDEO
