Electrostatic copying machine utilizing flash discharge lamp for illuminating original and/or fixing toner image

摘要

The flash discharge lamp is energized by the discharge of a battery of flash condensors. When an attempt is made to gain access to the flash condensors, these are automatically and quickly discharged through current-limiting resistors, to preclude the danger of electrocution. The fixing station of the copying machine, including the flash discharge lamp, the battery of flash condensors, the transport rollers which transport copying medium through the fixing station and almost all of the electronic control circuitry of the fixing station, are provided on a single housing, removable from the copying machine as a pull-out unit.