Sheet feeding/separation apparatus and recording apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasayoshi Sakuyama
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Abstract
A feeding/separation apparatus includes a feeding mechanism configured to feed a recording medium stacked on a sheet feeding unit, and a separation mechanism having a feeding member driven in a sheet feeding direction and a separation member driven in a direction opposite to the sheet feeding direction, a drawing member driven in the sheet feeding direction is disposed downstream of a nip portion formed by the separation member, and wherein the distance between the nip portion by the drawing member and the nip portion by the separation member in the sheet feeding direction is x/2 or less, where x denotes a minimum length of the recording medium.
Claims13
A feeding/separation apparatus comprising:
- a feeding mechanism configured to feed a recording medium stacked on a sheet feeding unit;
- and
- a separation mechanism having a feeding member driven in a sheet feeding direction and a separation member driven in a direction opposite to the sheet feeding direction,
- a drawing member driven in the sheet feeding direction is disposed downstream of a nip portion formed by the separation member, and
- wherein the distance between the nip portion by the drawing member and the nip portion by the separation member in the sheet feeding direction is x/2 or less, where x denotes a minimum length of the recording medium.
An envelope conveyance apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of conveyance belts disposed in a direction intersecting the conveyance direction and configured to apply a conveyance force in the conveyance direction to the lower surface of an envelope;
- a plurality of separation belts disposed in a direction intersecting the conveyance direction and configured to apply a conveyance force in a direction opposite to the conveyance direction to the upper surface of the envelope;
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- a conveyance rotating body disposed downstream of the conveyance belts and configured to apply a conveyance force in the conveyance direction to the second surface,
- wherein each separation belt comes closer to each conveyance belt on the more downstream side,
- wherein the downstream-side end of each separation belt partly enters between one of the conveyance belts and another one adjacent thereto, and
- wherein the downstream-side end of each separation belt is supported so as to be movable in a direction of separation from each conveyance belt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.