Sheet feeding apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsRyuichi Kojima, Ryukichi Inoue, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki, Yoshihiro Matsuo
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Abstract
The present invention provides a sheet feeding apparatus which has a sheet stacking surface for supporting sheets, sheet feeding device for feeding out the sheets supported on the sheet stacking surface, a movable separation inclined surface against which leading ends of the sheets supported on the sheet stacking surface abut and which is provided rotatably between a first position and a second position different in an inclination angle of the movable separation inclined surface with respect to the sheet stacking surface, and operation device for switching the movable separation inclined surface between the first position and the second position.
Claims20
A sheet feeding apparatus comprising:
- a sheet stacking surface for supporting sheets;
- sheet feeding means for feeding out the sheets supported on said sheet stacking surface;
- a movable separation inclined surface against which leading ends of the sheets supported on said sheet stacking surface abut and which is provided rotatably between a first position and a second position different in an inclination angle of said movable separation inclined surface with respect to said sheet stacking surface;
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- operation means for switching said movable separation inclined surface between the first position and the second position.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a sheet stacking surface for supporting sheets;
- sheet feeding means for feeding out the sheets supported on said sheet stacking surface;
- a movable separation inclined surface against which leading ends of the sheets supported on said sheet stacking surface abut and which is provided rotatably between a first position and a second position different in an inclination angle of said movable separation inclined surface with respect to said sheet stacking surface;
- operation means for switching said movable separation inclined surface between the first position and the second position;
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- image forming means for forming an image on the sheet fed out by said sheet feeding means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.