Sheet feed apparatus for image forming system
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYutaka Kikuchi, Seiji Sagara
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Abstract
Image forming apparatus including sheet feeding apparatus, sheet conveying apparatus, sheet delivering apparatus, structure for supporting the sheet conveying apparatus and sheet delivering apparatus and having an opening side, sheet storing apparatus, and structure for guiding the sheet storing apparatus such that the sheet forming apparatus is detachable from the sheet feeding apparatus at the same opening side.
Claims14
An image forming apparatus including means for feeding a sheet, means for conveying a fed sheet to an image forming section, and means for delivering the sheet processed by the image forming section, comprising:
- means for partially supporting said conveying means and said delivering means and having an opening side relative to a housing of said image forming apparatus;
- sheet storing means for storing therein sheets to be processed;
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- means for guiding said sheet storing means so that said sheet storing means is detachable from said feeding means at the same side of said image forming apparatus as the opening side of said supporting means,
- wherein said feeding means feeds the sheet in a direction opposite to a direction for mounting said sheet storing means.
A sheet feed apparatus used in an image forming apparatus including means for conveying a sheet fed by feeding means to an image forming section, and means for delivering the sheet processed by said image forming section, comprising:
- a sheet feed unit as a single unit comprising said feeding means and means for guiding sheet storing means;
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- sheet storing means comprising means for stacking the sheets and means for conveying the sheet, said conveying means being located in a downstream side of said stacking means, and said sheet storing means being detachable from said sheet feed unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.