Sheet containing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroshi Hiura
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Abstract
The present invention provides a sheet containing apparatus which is mounted to an image forming apparatus and adapted to contain a sheet to be fed to image forming mechanism of the image forming apparatus. And the sheet containing apparatus has a frame having a bottom plate and a side plate upright from the bottom plate, an end regulating mechanism movable in accordance with a size of a sheet contained in the frame and adapted to regulate an end of the sheet, and a flexion preventing mechanism provided on the end regulating mechanism and adapted to prevent the end regulating mechanism from being flexed by engagement with the side plate.
Claims19
A sheet containing apparatus mounted to an image forming apparatus and adapted to contain a sheet to be supplied to image forming means of said image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a frame having a bottom plate and a side plate upright from said bottom plate;
- end regulating means movable in accordance with a size of a sheet contained in said frame and adapted to regulate an end of the sheet;
- and
- flexion preventing means provided on said end regulating means and adapted to prevent said end regulating means from being flexed by engagement with said side plate.
A sheet feeding apparatus provided in an image forming apparatus and adapted to supply a sheet to image forming means of said image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a main body of said image forming apparatus;
- a sheet containing apparatus detachably attached to said main body of said image forming apparatus and adapted to contain a sheet to be supplied to said image forming means;
- sheet feeding means for feeding out the sheet in a direction perpendicular to a mounting direction of said sheet containing apparatus to said main body of said image forming apparatus;
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- separating means for separating the sheets to be fed out by said sheet feeding means one by one;
- and wherein said sheet containing apparatus including:
- a frame having a bottom plate and a side plate upright from said bottom plate;
- side regulating members movable in accordance with a size of the sheet contained in said frame and adapted to regulate left and right lateral edges of the sheet with respect to a sheet feeding direction;
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- flexion preventing means provided on at least one of said left and right side regulating members and adapted to prevent said side regulating member from being flexed by engaging with said side plate.
An image forming apparatus having a sheet feeding apparatus for supplying a sheet to image forming means, comprising:
- main body of said image forming apparatus,
- a sheet containing apparatus detachably attached to said main body of said image forming apparatus and adapted to contain a sheet to be supplied to said image forming means;
- sheet feeding means for feeding out the sheet in a direction perpendicular to a mounting direction of said sheet containing apparatus to said main body of said image forming apparatus;
- and
- separation means for separating the sheets to be fed out by said sheet feeding means one by one;
- wherein said sheet containing apparatus including:
- a frame having a bottom plate and a side plate upright from said bottom plate;
- side regulating members movable in accordance with a size of the sheet contained in said frame and adapted to regulate left and right lateral edges of the sheet with respect to a sheet feeding direction;
- and
- flexion preventing means provided on at least one of said side regulating members and adapted to prevent said side regulating member from being flexed by engagement with said side plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.