AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT CONVEYING DEVICE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the skew conveyance of a document so as to reduce bent conveyance by taking out a document while pressing it by an elastic member in taking out the document from a document placing table by a separative conveying means. SOLUTION: A polyester film 7 with a thickness of 0.1-0.2 mm is partially bonded to the inside of an outer cover 6 and inclined downstream, and the film 7 and a lead- out roller 8 are arranged on a straight line in a conveying direction. The tip part of the film 7 is not in contact with a pressing member 4 in a continuous line position when a document is not placed, but is elastically deformed in contact with the document in a broken line position when the document is fed. The friction coefficient of the film 7 with the document is made slightly higher than the mutual friction coefficient of the documents and considerably lower than the friction coefficient of the roller 8 with the document, so that there is no interference when the document is placed. Since contact resistance between the pressing plate 4 and the film 7 is small, even if the pressing plate 4 and the film 7 come in contact when the document is not placed, there is no interference when the document is placed. A cross direction skew generated by the deviation of the document abutting position of the roller 8 can be suppressed by the contact of the film 7.