Abstract: Method and apparatus for feeding original and copy sheets in a duplicator having an improved copyboard containing a radiation-transmissive plate adapted to carry superposed thereon the original and copy sheets with the original disposed between the plate and the copy sheet, the copyboard being linearly reciprocatable between a loading station, at which the original and copy sheets may be positioned on the plate, and an exposure station, at which the copy sheet is exposed through the radiation-transmissive plate and the original sheet and is thereafter removed for further processing. At the end of each exposure cycle, the copyboard moves back to the loading station carrying thereon the original sheet for the initiation of a subsequent sequence. Also disclosed are method and apparatus for accurately registering the copy sheet and original sheet on the copyboard and method and apparatus for separating the exposed copy sheet from the original sheet.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for feeding original and copy sheets in a duplicator having an improved copyboard containing a radiation-transmissive plate adapted to carry superposed thereon the original and copy sheets with the original disposed between the plate and the copy sheet, the copyboard being linearly reciprocatable between a loading station, at which the original and copy sheets may be positioned on the plate, and an exposure station, at which the copy sheet is exposed through the radiation-transmissive plate and the original sheet and is thereafter removed for further processing. At the end of each exposure cycle, the copyboard moves back to the loading station carrying thereon the original sheet for the initiation of a subsequent sequence. Also disclosed are method and apparatus for accurately registering the copy sheet and original sheet on the copyboard and method and apparatus for separating the exposed copy sheet from the original sheet.

Abstract: Disclosed is a copyboard cover for covering and holding in position documents placed upon a copyboard of a photographic copying machine. The copyboard cover in its preferred embodiment includes a frame, means for reciprocating the frame to and from a load position uncovering the copyboard for placement of a document on the copyboard and a copy position covering the document and the copyboard, a light-blocking cover material for covering the copyboard when the frame is in the copy position to block out undesirable light, a pressure plate mounted within the frame for holding the document flat against the copyboard, and means for reciprocating the pressure plate towards the copyboard in response to the frame moving into the copy position and from the copyboard in response to the frame beginning movement back to the load position.