Manual image copier with a specific structure housing a specific copy sheet carrying path, drawing utensil carriage, and drive mechanism thereof

摘要

This invention relates to a handy sketching apparatus which has an image information reading function and a sketching function to draw an image on the basis of the image information read by the image information reading function, and which is easy to operate and easy to be miniaturized for smaller size. The handy sketching apparatus comprises a base block containing a progressive scanning image information reading mechanism through the bottom face, a sheet carrying path provided on the top side of the base block so as to carry a sheet in a specified direction substantially parallel to the bottom face of the base block, and an upper block integrally formed on the top side of the base block, straddling the sheet carrying path. The image information reading mechanism reads image information placed under the base block sequentially as the apparatus is moved in a sub-scanning direction. The upper block houses a traveling mechanism which is run back and forth in a main scanning direction across the sheet carrying path, thereby moving a drawing utensil to draw an image on the sheet on the sheet carrying path, on the basis of the image information read by the image information reading mechanism.