Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShinkichi Yamamoto
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Abstract
A sheet feeding apparatus includes a conveyance guide member provided in an apparatus body and having a reference plane against which a sheet widthwise side edge orthogonal to a sheet feeding direction abuts. The reference plane is provided upstream in the feed direction of a downstream end in the feed direction of the sheet stacked on the stacking member in a state in which the sheet feed cassette is attached to the attachment position of the apparatus body and is provided under, in terms of a vertical direction, an uppermost sheet stacked on the stacking member in the state in which the sheet feed cassette is attached to the attachment position of the apparatus body.
Claims11
A sheet feeding apparatus, comprising:
- an apparatus body;
- a sheet feed cassette provided attachably/drawably to/out of the apparatus body;
- a stacking member, provided in the sheet feed cassette, on which a sheet is stacked;
- a feed member feeding the sheet stacked on the stacking member in a condition in which the sheet feed cassette is attached at an attachment position of the apparatus body;
- a conveying member conveying the sheet fed by the feed member obliquely with respect to a feed direction in which the feed member feeds the sheet;
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- a conveyance guide member provided in the apparatus body and having a reference plane against which a side edge, in a width direction orthogonal to the feed direction, of the sheet obliquely conveyed by the conveying member abuts, the reference plane being provided upstream, in the feed direction, of a downstream end of the sheet stacked on the stacking member in a state in which the sheet feed cassette is attached to the attachment position of the apparatus body and is provided, in terms of a vertical direction, under an uppermost sheet stacked on the stacking member in the state in which the sheet feed cassette is attached to the attachment position of the apparatus body.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- an apparatus body;
- a sheet feed cassette provided attachably/drawably to/out of the apparatus body;
- a stacking member, provided in the sheet feed cassette, on which a sheet is stacked;
- an image forming portion forming an image on the sheet;
- a feed member feeding the sheet stacked on the stacking member to the image forming portion in a condition in which the sheet feed cassette is attached at an attachment position of the apparatus body;
- a conveying member conveying the sheet fed by the feed member obliquely with respect to a feed direction in which the feed member feeds the sheet;
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- a conveyance guide member provided in the apparatus body and having a reference plane against which a side edge, in a width direction orthogonal to the feed direction, of the sheet obliquely conveyed by the conveying member abuts, the reference plane being provided upstream, in the feed direction, of a downstream end of the sheet stacked on the stacking member in a state in which the sheet feed cassette is attached to the attachment position of the apparatus body and is provided, in terms of a vertical direction, under an uppermost sheet stacked on the stacking member in the state in which the sheet feed cassette is attached to the attachment position of the apparatus body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.