Automatic photocopying apparatus

Claim 1

IN A DUPLICATING MACHINE, A DUPLICATING STATION, GUIDE MEANS DEFINING AN ENDLESS PATH FOR CYCLICALLY ROUTING A DOCUMENT TO BE COPIED THROUGH AN EXPOSURE ZONE IN SAID DUPLICATING STATION, MEANS FOR MOVING SAID DOCUMENT ALONG SAID PATH AND FOR FEEDING A PLURALITY OF SHEETS OF COPY PAPER SERIATIM THROUGH SAID DUPLICATING STATION IN TIMED RELATION WITH THE MOVEMENT OF SAID DOCUMENT THERETHROUGH, MEANS FOR COPYING SAID DOCUMENT ON SAID SHEETS OF COPY PAPER FED THROUGH SAID DUPLICATING STATION, MEANS ADAPTED TO ENGAGE SAID DOCUMENT AT LEAST ALONG ITS LEADING EDGE AS IT TRAVELS ALONG SAID PATH, SAID DOCUMENT ENGAGING MEANS FORMING A PART OF SAID GUIDE MEANS FOR DIRECTING SAID DOCUMENT INTO A PART OF SAID ENDLESS PATH, AND MEANS FOR SELECTIVELY ADJUSTING THE ANGLE THAT SAID DOCUMENT ENGAGING MEANS EXTENDS WITH RESPECT TO THE LEADING EDGE OF THE MOVING DOCUMENT APPROACHING SAID DOCUMENT ENGAGING MEANS FOR VARYING THE SKEW ORIENTATION OF SAID ORIGINAL DOCUMENT RELATIVE TO ITS DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT THROUGH SAID STATION AS IT IS ADVANCED FOR TRAVEL INTO SAID PART OF SAID ENDLESS PATH.