Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus incorporating same

A sheet feeding device comprising:

• a sheet container that contains a sheet stack therein;
• an outer end part that is connected to the sheet container;
• a sheet feeding member to feed the sheet in the sheet container to an outside of the sheet feeding device;
• a swing shaft disposed at an upstream side of the sheet container in a sheet feeding direction;
• a sheet loading member having a loading surface on which the sheet in the sheet container is loaded, and being supported by the swing shaft to swing according to an amount of sheets loaded on the loading surface;
• a rotary shaft;
• and
• a sheet amount indicator being rotatably supported by the rotary shaft, having a contact end that contacts the sheet loading member swinging according to the amount of sheets loaded on the sheet loading member, and having a sheet amount display end disposed at an opposite side of the contact end with the rotary shaft in between and moving in a given display range visible from the outside of the sheet feeding device,
• wherein the sheet loading member has a sloped surface sloped with respect to the loading surface and disposed at a portion where the contact end of the sheet amount indicator contacts the loading surface.