A sheet conveying apparatus, comprising:
- a container for storing a stack of a plurality of sheets;
- a roller rotatable about a rotation shaft parallel to the plurality of sheets stored in the container and configured to convey the plurality of sheets one by one in a conveyance direction by rotating about the rotation shaft while being held in contact with a front surface of the plurality of sheets stored in the container;
- an arm including a supporter that rotatably supports the roller, the arm being pivotable about an arm pivot shaft parallel to the rotation shaft while the supporter is located downstream of the arm pivot shaft in the conveyance direction, and
- a presser plate configured to press the plurality of sheets stored in the container toward the roller and to be pivotable about a presser-plate pivot shaft parallel to the rotation shaft,
- wherein the presser plate includes a bend portion disposed between:
- a downstream end of the presser plate in the conveyance direction;
- and the presser-plate pivot shaft, the bend portion being bent or bendable,
- wherein a distal portion which is a portion of the presser plate ranging from the downstream end to the bend portion and which faces the roller and a basal portion which is a portion of the presser plate ranging from the bend portion to the presser-plate pivot shaft define a bend angle when the distal portion and the basal portion are bent, the bend angle being an angle defined on one side of the presser plate that is farther from the arm, the bend angle being maintained at an obtuse angel when a state of the container is a first-amount loaded state in which a first amount of the plurality of sheets are loaded on the container,
- wherein a contact angle of the arm and the plurality of sheets at a contact position, at which the arm and the plurality of sheets on the presser plate contact, is smaller than a maximum angle in a time period in which the state of the container changes from a maximally loaded state in which a maximal amount of the plurality of sheets are loaded on the container to the first-amount loaded state, the maximum angle being an angle defined by:
- (i) the basal portion in the maximally loaded state;
- and (ii) the arm the roller of which contacts the presser plate which is the presser plate in the maximally loaded state and on which it is assumed that the plurality of sheets are not loaded in the maximally loaded state,
- wherein the presser plate includes a distal member that constitutes the distal portion and a basal member that constitutes the basal portion, and
- wherein the presser plate includes an angle adjuster configured to adjust the bend angle defined by the distal member and the basal member such that the bend angle is maintained at an obtuse angle.