摘要 |
<p>A recirculating original-sheet transport apparatus (1) supplies a sheet from a stack of original documents to the exposure station of an image forming apparatus (2) and restores the sheet onto the stack. It comprises a sheet container (3) for receiving originals, a sheet feeder (4) for feeding an original sheet from the sheet container (3) to the image forming apparatus (2), and a sheet restorer (5) for restoring the sheet into the sheet container (3). The sheet restorer (5) includes a turning path in which is a plurality of soft rollers (60) having guide ribs (65) therebetween, and a straight transport path in which is a plurality of position-variable hard rollers (44) around which transport belts (41) extend and between which are guide ribs (65) as well. <IMAGE></p> |