Abstract: A document feeding apparatus comprising a first original supporting device on which an original is placed, an original inlet port for receiving the original placed on the first original supporting device, a conveying device for guiding the original fed from the inlet port to a predetermined position and exhausting the original from the predetermined position, and a second original supporting device mounted on a housing of the document feeding apparatus and having an image area designation device for designating an image area of the original. In an image area designation mode of the apparatus, the original is placed on the image area designation device, a desired image area is designated, and the original is placed on the first original supporting device and is guided to the predetermined position through the inlet port.

Abstract: An electrophotographic copying apparatus for forming on a photosensitive medium electrostatic images corresponding to an original image and for providing copies thereof, comprises an original carriage for carrying thereon the original image, optical scanning means having a plurality of reciprocally movable scanning units for scanning the original image on the carriage, a photosensitive medium, and means for forming on the photosensitive medium electrostatic images corresponding to the original image. The optical scanning units of the optical scanning means are operable to successively scan the original image.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus wherein a primary electrostatic latent image is formed on a photosensitive screen having a multitude of tiny openings therein and then an ion flow is modulated by the primary electrostatic latent image to thereby form a secondary electrostatic latent image on a chargeable member, the secondary electrostatic latent image formation occurs with both the screen bearing the primary electrostatic latent image thereon and the chargeable member being moved in the same direction and at the same velocity but with a corona discharge device for forming the secondary electrostatic latent image on the chargeable member being moved in the direction opposite to the direction of movement of the screen and chargeable member.