Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTetsuo Tokuda
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Abstract
A sheet feeding apparatus provided with a sheet feeding rotary member rotatable in a direction for feeding sheets, and a separating pad biased toward the sheet feeding rotary member, and for separating the sheets one by one between the sheet feeding rotary member and the separating pad and feeding them has a vibration absorbing member interposed between the separating pad and a pad supporting portion for pivotally supporting the separating pad for absorbing the vibration of the separating pad.
Claims11
A sheet feeding apparatus, comprising:
- a sheet feeding rotary member rotatable in a direction for feeding sheets;
- a separating pad biased toward said sheet feeding rotary member, wherein the sheets are separated one by one between said sheet feeding rotary member and said separating pad to be fed out;
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- a vibration absorbing member interposed between said separating pad and a pad supporting portion for pivotally supporting said separating pad for absorbing vibrations of said separating pad.
A sheet feeding apparatus comprising:
- a sheet feeding rotary member rotatable in a direction for feeding sheets;
- a separating pad biased toward said sheet feeding rotary member, wherein the sheets are separated one by one between said sheet feeding rotary member and said separating pad to be fed out;
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- an elastic adhesive filling a space between said separating pad and a supporting portion for pivotally supporting said separating pad.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a sheet feeding rotary member rotatable in a direction for feeding sheets;
- a separating pad biased toward said sheet feeding rotary member, wherein the sheets are separated one by one between said sheet feeding rotary member and said separating pad to be fed out;
- image forming means for forming an image on a fed sheet;
- and
- a vibration absorbing member interposed between said separating pad and a pad supporting portion for pivotally supporting said separating pad for absorbing vibrations of said separating pad.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a sheet feeding rotary member rotatable in a direction for feeding sheets;
- a separating pad biased toward said sheet feeding rotary member, wherein the sheets are separated one by one between said sheet feeding rotary member and said separating pad to be fed out;
- image forming means for forming an image on a fed sheet;
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- an elastic adhesive filling a space between said separating pad and a pad supporting portion for pivotally supporting said separating pad.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.