Sheet feed apparatus

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IN A DUPLICATING MACHINE HAVING MEANS DEFINING A STORAGE COMPARTMENT CONTAINING PHOTOSENSITIVE COPY PAPER; MEANS DEFINING A COPY PAPER TRAVEL PATH INCLUDING A FIRST CONVEYOR MEANS, A COPY PAPER IMAGE FORMING AREA AND A DEVELOPING STATION; AND MEANS DEFINING A DOCUMENT TRAVEL PATH INCLUDING A DOCUMENT EXPOSING AREA, WHICH ALONG WITH SAID COPY PAPER IMAGE FORMING AREA FORMS AN EXPOSING STATION; THE COMBINATION OF: (A) MEANS FOR ADVANCING SAID COPY PAPER FROM ITS STORAGE POSITION IN SAID STORAGE COMPARTMENT TO SAID FIRST CONVEYOR MEANS; (B) MEANS FOR STOPPING THE ADVANCING COPY PAPER WITH ITS LEADING EDGE AT A PREDETERMINED POSITION BETWEEN SAID STORAGE COMPARTMENT AND SAID FRIST CONVEYOR MEANS; (C) MEANS FOR ADVANCING A DOCUMENT TO BE COPIED ALONG SAID DOCUMENT TRAVEL PATH AND THROUGH SAID DOCUMENT EXPOSING ZONE; (D) MEANS RESPONSIE TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SAID DOCUMENT ALONG SAID DOCUMENT TRAVEL PATH TO REINITIATE MOVEMENT OF SAID COPY PAPER TO A POSITION WHEN IT IS PICKED UP BY SAID FIRST CONVEYOR MEANS FOR ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SAID IMAGE FORMING AREA IN TIMED RELATION WITH MOVEMENT OF SAID DOCUMENT THROUGH SAID EXPOSURE AREA; (E) MEANS FOR MOVING SAID COPY PAPER THROUGH SAID DEVELOPING STATION; AND (F) SAID MEANS FOR STOPPING THE ADVANCING COPY PAPER COMPRISING CIRCUIT MEANS UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE COPY PAPER DURING ITS MOVEMENT PAST SAID PREDETERMINED POSITION FOR RENDERING SAID COPY PAPER ADVANCING MEANS INOPERATIVE TO ADVANCE THE NEXT SHEET OF STORED COPY PAPER TO SAID PREDETERMINED POSITION.