Sheet storage device and image forming apparatus

Abstract

A sheet storage device includes: a sheet storage body that stores sheets and that is capable of being pulled out of and pushed into an apparatus body; a transport roller pair provided in the apparatus body to separate and transport the sheets stored in the sheet storage body, one sheet at a time; and a press-contact unit that abuts against the sheet storage body mounted to the apparatus body to move one of transport rollers of the transport roller pair from a press-contact cancellation position to a press-contact position, in which the press-contact unit abuts against the sheet storage body earlier than a different abutment unit that abuts against the sheet storage body when mounting the sheet storage body to the apparatus body.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.