Sheet feeding adapter
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorMasami Mashiki
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Abstract
A sheet feeding adapter includes a base plate which is placed on an upper surface of a sheet bundle set in a sheet feeding cassette and having a predetermined size and movable in a sheet feeding direction through guidance of a pair of first regulating plates, a sheet bundle having a small width size being set on an upper surface of the base plate, and a pair of second regulating plates that are upright from the upper surface of the base plate and regulate a position in a width direction of a sheet bundle set on the upper surface of the base plate and having a small width size, wherein the base plate is movable between a sheet feeding position, at which the sheet bundle having the small width size can be fed, and a withdrawing position positioned at a rear side from the sheet feeding position.
Claims6
A sheet feeding adapter, which is mounted in a sheet feeding cassette having a pair of first regulating plates for regulating a position in a width direction of sheets of a predetermined size stacked in a bundle shape, and enables use of a sheet having a small width size in which a width size is smaller than a width size of the sheets having the predetermined size, comprising:
- a base plate configured to be placed on an upper surface of a sheet bundle of the predetermined size set in the sheet feeding cassette, and to be movable in a sheet feeding direction through guidance of the pair of first regulating plates, a sheet bundle having a small width size being set on an upper surface of the base plate;
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- a pair of second regulating plates that are upright from the upper surface of the base plate and regulate a position in a width direction of the sheet bundle of the small width size set on the upper surface of the base plate,
- wherein the base plate is movable to a sheet feeding position, at which the sheet bundle of the small width size set on the base plate is positioned at a lower side of a predetermined sheet feeding member, and a withdrawing position at which the sheet bundle having the small width size is positioned at a rear side in the sheet feeding direction from the predetermined sheet feeding member,
- a low friction layer is formed on a lower surface of the base plate, and
- a frictional coefficient of the low friction layer to the sheet having the predetermined size is smaller than a frictional coefficient of a material of the base plate to the sheet having the predetermined size.
A sheet feeding device comprising:
- a sheet feeding cassette which is mounted to an image forming apparatus;
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- a sheet feeding adapter, which is mounted in the sheet feeding cassette having a pair of first regulating plates for regulating a position in a width direction of sheets of a predetermined size stacked in a bundle shape, and enables use of a sheet having a small width size in which a width size is smaller than a width size of the sheets having the predetermined size,
- wherein the sheet feeding adapter includes:
- a base plate configured to be placed on an upper surface of a sheet bundle of the predetermined size set in the sheet feeding cassette, and to be movable in a sheet feeding direction through guidance of the pair of first regulating plates, a sheet bundle having a small width size being set on an upper surface of the base plate;
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- a pair of second regulating plates that are upright from the upper surface of the base plate and regulate a position in a width direction of the sheet bundle of the small width size set on the upper surface of the base plate,
- wherein the base plate is movable to a sheet feeding position, at which the sheet bundle of the small width size set on the base plate is positioned at a lower side of a predetermined sheet feeding member, and a withdrawing position at which the sheet bundle having the small width size is positioned at a rear side in the sheet feeding direction from the predetermined sheet feeding member,
- the sheet feeding cassette is mounted at a predetermined location inside the image forming apparatus such that the sheet feeding cassette is able to be inserted inward to and pulled outward from the predetermined location through a cassette insertion opening formed in a lateral side of the image forming apparatus, and configured such that an outward side in an inserting/pulling direction of the sheet feeding cassette is located at the rear side in the sheet feeding direction and an inward side in the inserting/pulling direction of the sheet feeding cassette is located at a front side in the sheet feeding direction,
- a grip part graspable by a user is connected to the base plate,
- the grip part is formed to protrude to outside of the image forming apparatus through a gap formed between the cassette insertion opening formed in the lateral side of the image forming apparatus and a sidewall at the outward side in the inserting/pulling direction of the sheet feeding cassette when the sheet feeding cassette is mounted at the predetermined location inside the image forming apparatus and the base plate is positioned at the sheet feeding position,
- a low friction layer is formed on a lower surface of the base plate, and
- a frictional coefficient of the low friction layer to the sheet having the predetermined size is smaller than a frictional coefficient of a material of the base plate to the sheet having the predetermined size.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.