US 10,472,188 B2Granted

Sheet storing apparatus, sheet feeding apparatus, and image forming apparatus

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsMasatoshi Yoshida, Takao Nada

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Abstract

A sheet regulating portion includes a body portion including a regulating surface facing an edge of a sheet, a pressing member having a pressing portion capable of projecting out of the body portion, an upper portion formed integrally with an upper part of the pressing portion so as to project to a sheet side and regulating an upward move of the sheet, and an urging member to urge the pressing member so that the pressing portion presses the edge of the sheet. In addition, a holding portion holds the pressing portion movably from a projecting position where the pressing portion projects out of the body portion to a retracting position where the upper portion enters within the body portion while inclining the pressing portion with respect to the regulating surface by resisting against the urging member when the upper portion is pressed from above.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A sheet feeding apparatus comprising:

a sheet feed portion configured to feed a sheet;
and
a sheet storing apparatus configured to store the sheet to be fed by the sheet feed portion and comprising a regulating portion configured to regulate a position of the sheet by abutting with the sheet stored in the sheet storing apparatus, the regulating portion comprising:
a body portion configured to face an edge of the sheet;
a pressing member comprising a pressing portion configured to press an edge of the sheet, and an upper portion formed integrally with the pressing portion so as to regulate an upward move of the sheet stored in the sheet storing apparatus, the upper portion being configured to project to a sheet side;
and
an urging member configured to urge the pressing member so as to press the edge of the sheet,
wherein the body portion is configured to pivotably and slidably hold the pressing portion such that the upper portion moves from a first position to a second position where the upper portion is retracted from the first position in a direction opposite to an urging direction of the urging member if the upper portion is pressed from above.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/018,383Filed 26 Jun 2018 · continuation
Priority: JP 2016-01440928 Jan 2016
Published: US 2018/0297796 A118 Oct 2018
Granted: 12 Nov 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

B65H 1/04
Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated: adapted to support articles substantially horizontally, e.g. for…
B65H 1/266
With auxiliary supports to facilitate introduction or renewal of the pile: support fully or partially removable from the handling machine, e.g.…
B65H 3/56
Supplementary devices or measures to assist separation or prevent double feed: elements, e.g. scrapers, fingers, needles, brushes, acting on…
B65H 2405/11425
Projections or the like in surface contact with handled material: retractable

Family

Application15/404,529Parent of this continuation · filed 12 Jan 2017
US 2018/0297796 A1Pre-grant publication · published 18 Oct 2018
US 10,035,670 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2017/0217698 A1Published application
US 10,472,188 B2This patent

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