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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakashi Nojima, Atsushi Noda, Hiroyuki Inoue, Hitoshi Nakamura, Akira Kida, Hideaki Kawakami, Takeshi Iwasaki, Noriko Kawasaki, Takehiko Kiyohara
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A sheet supplying apparatus includes a sheet supporter for supporting sheets, a supply rotary device for feeding out the sheets supported by the sheet supporter, a separation member for separating sheets fed by the supply rotary device one by one by elastically changing an inclination angle of the separation member when the sheets fed by the supply rotary means abut against and ride over the separation member, and a sheet guide member removably disposed above the sheet supporting means and adapted to guide the sheet in such a manner that the sheet is subjected to resistance of the separation member smaller than resistance from the separation member to the sheet when the sheets are supplied from the sheet supporter.
A sheet supplying apparatus comprising:
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