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Abstract

A copying machine which comprises a document tray for accommodating a plurality of sheet-like documents to be copied; a first reading station at which a first of the sides of the document is scanned; a second reading station at which the other or second of the sides of the documetn is scanned; a document handling mechanism including a document inverting device including a document transport passage for inverting the document to permit the other or second of the sides thereof to be presented to the second reading station after the first of the sides thereof has been presented to the first reading station; a photosensitive medium for copying an image of each of the documents, scanned at any one of the first and second reading stations, onto a copying sheet; an intermediate tray for the temporary storage of the copying sheet after the latter has been moved past a transfer station and from which the copying sheet is subsequently transported again to the transfer station; a sheet inverting device for turning the copying sheet upside down before it is delivered onto the intermediate tray; and a sheet delivery passage leading to the intermediate tray. The transport of the document in the document transport passage parallels the transport of the copying sheet in the sheet delivery passage.

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