SINGLE RADIATION RAY PATH FOR THERMOGRAPHIC IMAGING AND TRANSFIXING OR FUSING

摘要

A copying machine is provided wherein a heat image is formed on a heat sensitive intermediate member at an imaging station by exposing the same and an original to a radiation source, then moving the intermediate in one direction to a developing station and developing the image thereon with toner particles, and then reversing the direction of movement of the intermediate back along the same path to the imaging station whereat a copy medium is brought into engagement with the developed image and heat is applied thereto by the same radiation source and the developed image transferred to the copy medium. Rather than transfer the developed image to a copy paper, the toner particles may be fixed or fused to the heat sensitive member, if desired.