Sliding platen cover apparatus

Claim 1

Platen cover apparatus comprising: a frame mounted on a copier machine adjacent to a platen area, said frame being slidable relative to the machine; cover means mounted on the frame having contiguous walls defining a tray for supporting a stack of documents to be copied and an open bottom therebelow; a pad member received in the bottom of said cover means; a parallelogram linkage connecting said pad member to said frame, said linkage being movable from a first position when the cover means is in a non-copying position to a second position in which said linkage is urged against the action of torsion spring means when the cover means is in a copying position, said linkage including shaft members supporting rollers adapted for sliding along a track on the machine adjacent to the platen area, and handle means connected to said linkage whereupon after sliding of the cover means over the platen area and actuation of said handle means said linkage is moved from its first position into its second position to position said pad member into frictional contact with a document for copying thereof, and after copying, upon sliding of the cover means in an opposite direction with said handle means engaged the document is transported into a receiving tray on the machine.