Sheet feeding apparatus and recording apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHideki Kawashima, Hitoshi Nishitani
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Abstract
A sheet feeding apparatus to which a cassette accommodating a sheet is detachably mountable includes supplying means for supplying the sheet from the cassette; a reference member having a reference surface for regulating a position of a lateral edge of the sheet being fed in a predetermined feeding direction by the supplying means; feeding means for feeding the sheet in a direction inclined relative to the feeding direction toward the reference surface to abut the lateral edge of the sheet to the reference surface; and moving means for selectively moving the reference member in response to mounting of the cassette such that reference member is placed at a position corresponding to a width of the sheet accommodated in the cassette.
Claims20
A sheet feeding apparatus to which a cassette accommodating a sheet is detachably mountable, said sheet feeding device comprising:
- supplying means for supplying the sheet from said cassette;
- a reference member having a reference surface for regulating a position of a lateral edge of the sheet being fed in a predetermined feeding direction by said supplying means;
- feeding means for feeding the sheet in a direction inclined relative to the feeding direction toward the reference surface to abut the lateral edge of the sheet to the reference surface;
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- moving means for selectively moving said reference member in response to mounting of said cassette such that reference member is placed at a position corresponding to a width of the sheet accommodated in said cassette.
A sheet feeding apparatus to which a cassette accommodating a sheet is detachably mountable, said sheet feeding device comprising:
- supplying means for supplying the sheet from said cassette;
- a reference member having a reference surface for regulating a position of a lateral edge of the sheet being fed in a predetermined feeding direction by said supplying means;
- feeding means for feeding the sheet such that lateral edge of the sheet abuts the reference surface;
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- moving means for selectively moving said reference member in response to mounting of said cassette.
A recording apparatus to which a cassette accommodating a sheet is detachably mountable, said recording apparatus comprising:
- supplying means for supplying the sheet from said cassette;
- a reference member having a reference surface for regulating a position of a lateral edge of the sheet being fed in a predetermined feeding direction by said supplying means;
- feeding means for feeding the sheet in a direction inclined relative to the feeding direction toward the reference surface to abut the lateral edge of the sheet to the reference surface;
- moving means for selectively moving said reference member in response to mounting of said cassette such that reference member is placed at a position corresponding to a width of the sheet accommodated in said cassette;
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- an image forming station for forming an image on the sheet fed by said feeding means.
A recording apparatus to which a cassette accommodating a sheet is detachably mountable, said recording apparatus comprising:
- supplying means for supplying the sheet from said cassette;
- a reference member having a reference surface for regulating a position of a lateral edge of the sheet being fed in a predetermined feeding direction by said supplying means;
- feeding means for feeding the sheet such that lateral edge of the sheet abuts the reference surface;
- moving means for selectively moving said reference member in response to mounting of said cassette;
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- an image forming station for forming an image on the sheet fed by said feeding means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.