Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTomoki Katafuchi
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Abstract
A sheet feeding device includes a sheet stacking member, a feeding member provided above the sheet stacking member, and a lifting member to lift up and down the sheet stacking member. An accommodating unit for accommodating the sheet is provided with a supporting frame for supporting the sheet stacking member. A restricting member restricts a position of the sheet stacking member. Movement in a lifting down direction of the sheet stacking member is restricted by the restricting member when the restricting member is attached to the supporting frame in a state in which the sheet stacking member is lifted up to a predetermined position.
Claims10
A sheet feeding device for feeding a sheet, the sheet feeding device comprising:
- a sheet stacking member on which the sheet is stacked;
- a feeding member provided above the sheet stacking member and configured to feed the sheet stacked on the sheet stacking member;
- a lifting member configured to lift up and down the sheet stacking member;
- a frame unit provided with an opening portion and configured to accommodate the sheet, the frame unit being dismountably mounted to a mounting portion of the sheet feeding device;
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- a restricting member detachably attached to the opening portion and configured to restrict downward movement of the sheet stacking member by contacting and supporting the sheet stacking member in a state in which the sheet stacking member is at a predetermined position in a vertical direction,
- wherein, when the sheet stacking member is at the predetermined position, the restricting member supports the sheet stacking member so as to allow the sheet stacking member to move upward.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.