Sheet conveying apparatus

A sheet conveying apparatus comprising:

• a rotatably supported rotary shaft;
• a sheet conveying roller means attached to said rotary shaft for feeding a sheet;
• driving means for driving said rotary shaft;
• and
• clutch means for controlling so as to or not to transmit the driving force generated by said driving means to said rotary shaft or not,
• wherein said clutch means includes a first engagement member provided at one end of said rotary shaft for slidable movement in an axial direction of said rotary shaft and for rotation together with said rotary shaft, a second engagement member which can be engage by said first engagement member and which is rotated around said rotary shaft by a rotational force from said driving means, a rocker member rotatably supported by said rotary shaft, rotation transmission means provided on a part of said rocker member, and transmission means for converting a rotating motion of said rocker member to a reciprocating motion of said first engagement member.

An image recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording sheet, comprising

• a separation rotary member for separating a single recording sheet from a plurality of recording sheets and feeding the recording sheet;
• a supply rotary member for supplying the recording sheets toward said separation rotary member;
• driving means for generating a driving force to rotate said separation rotary member;
• intermission means for intermitting the transmission of the driving force from said driving means;
• operating means for shifting said supply rotary member between a supplying operation position and retracted position retracted from said supplying operation position;
• driving force transmitting means for performing the intermission of said intermission means, in synchronism with the shift of said supply rotary member between said supplying operation position and said retracted position by said operating means;
• and
• a recording means for recording an image on said recording sheet.