Sheet feeding apparatus

A sheet feeding apparatus for feeding sheets, comprising:

• a stack section adapted to stack sheets;
• a sheet feeding section adapted to feed a sheet in the stack section;
• a conveyance path adapted to guide the sheet fed from the sheet feeding section to a downstream direction;
• a conveying section adapted to convey the sheet along the conveyance path;
• a multi feed detecting section adapted to detect multi feed of sheets conveyed by the conveying section, in a predetermined detection position of the conveyance path;
• first and second discharge sections to which multi-fed sheets with the multi feed detected by the multi feed detecting section are discharged;
• a first full detecting section adapted to detect whether or not the second discharge section is full of sheets;
• and
• a control section adapted to control the conveying section,
• wherein based on a detection result of the first full detecting section, the control section selects one of the first and second discharge sections to convey the multi-fed sheets to the selected discharge section.

A sheet feeding apparatus for feeding sheets, comprising:

• a stack section adapted to stack sheets;
• a sheet feeding section adapted to feed a sheet in the stack section;
• a conveyance path adapted to guide the sheet fed from the sheet feeding section to a downstream direction;
• a conveying section adapted to convey the sheet along the conveyance path;
• a multi feed detecting section adapted to detect multi feed of sheets conveyed by the conveying section, in a predetermined detection position of the conveyance path;
• first and second discharge sections to which multi-fed sheets with the multi feed detected by the multi feed detecting section are discharged;
• and
• a control section adapted to select one of the first and second discharge sections corresponding to a predetermined condition and to convey the multi-fed sheets detected by the multi feed detecting section to the selected discharge section.