Arrangement for setting a paper feeding cassette
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakeshi Yoshida
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Abstract
A paper feeding cassette setting arrangement which is so arranged that the action point of a pushing arm is pulled by a spring so as to push up a paper tray only when the paper feeding cassette is set in the copying apparatus. The operator has only to push in the paper feeding cassette when the cassette is desired to be set in the copying apparatus, and also the operator has only to pull out the paper feeding cassette when the cassette is desired to be taken out of the copying apparatus since the cassette has been already pulled out to some extent, with the lock thereof being released. A pushing arm may rotate orthogonal to the paper feeding direction.
Claims6
A paper feeding device comprising:
- a paper feeding cassette detachably inserted in a paper feeding section of a copying apparatus in a direction orthogonal to a paper feeding dircetion of said copying apparatus;
- a paper holder tray for placing copy papers thereon, said paper holder tray being mounted rotatably within said paper feeding cassette;
- a paper feeding means provided in said paper feeding section for feeding said copy papers from said paper feeding cassette into said copying apparatus;
- a pushing arm rotatably mounted in said paper feeding section rotatable in a direction orthogonal to the rotational direction of said paper holder tray, wherein said pushing arm rotation through an opening in said paper feeding cassette pushes said paper holder tray such that said paper holder tray is in a position that allows said paper feeding means to feed paper.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.