Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasaki Seto
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Abstract
A sheet feeding apparatus includes a stacking portion, a feed member provided above the stacking portion and configured to feed an uppermost sheet among the sheets stacked on the stacking portion, and a trailing-end regulating member movable in the sheet feeding direction and configured to regulate a position of a trailing end of the sheets stacked on the stacking portion in the sheet feeding direction. The trailing-end regulating member includes a support portion configured to support a lower surface of the sheets stacked on the stacking portion. The support portion has a projecting shape in which a center portion of the support portion in a sheet width direction projects upward as compared with end portions of the support portion in the sheet width direction.
Claims12
A sheet feeding apparatus comprising:
- a stacking portion on which sheets are stacked;
- a feed member provided above the stacking portion and configured to feed an uppermost sheet among the sheets stacked on the stacking portion toward a sheet feeding direction;
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- a trailing-end regulating member movable in the sheet feeding direction and configured to regulate a position of a trailing end of the sheets stacked on the stacking portion in the sheet feeding direction,
- wherein the trailing-end regulating member includes a support portion configured to support a lower surface of the sheets stacked on the stacking portion, and
- wherein the support portion has a projecting shape in which a center portion of the support portion in a sheet width direction projects upward as compared with end portions of the support portion in the sheet width direction, the sheet width direction being a direction perpendicular to both the sheet feeding direction and an up-down direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.