Sheet Feeding Device and Image Forming Apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTsugio OKAMOTO
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Abstract
A sheet feeding device to feed a sheet in a sheet stack into a sheet feeding path is provided. the sheet feeding device includes a feed roller configured to contact the sheet stack and feed the sheet in a feeding direction, a guide member, having a guide surface, which is configured to contact a side of the sheet fed by the feeding roller, to guide the sheet being fed along a guiding direction, and a shifting unit to shift the feed roller in a direction toward the guide surface before the feed roller is rotated.
Claims16
A sheet feeding device to feed a sheet in a sheet stack into a sheet feeding path, comprising:
- a feed roller configured to contact the sheet stack and feed the sheet in a feeding direction;
- a guide member, having a guide surface, which is configured to contact a side of the sheet fed by the feeding roller, to guide the sheet being fed along a guiding direction;
- and
- a shifting unit to shift the feed roller in a direction toward the guide surface before the feed roller is rotated.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a sheet feeding device to feed a sheet in a sheet stack into a sheet feeding path;
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- an image forming unit to form the image on the sheet being fed by the sheet feeding device,
- wherein the sheet feeding device includes:
- a feed roller configured to contact the sheet stack and feed the sheet in a feeding direction;
- a guide member, having a guide surface, which is configured to contact a side of the sheet fed by the feeding roller, to guide the sheet being fed along a guiding direction;
- and
- a shifting unit to shift the feed roller in a direction toward the guide surface before the feed roller is rotated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.