Sheet supplying apparatus

A sheet supplying apparatus for supplying a sheet, the sheet supplying apparatus being connected with a sheet feeding apparatus, an image forming apparatus, and a post-processing apparatus on an upper stream side and a down stream side of the sheet supplying apparatus in a sheet conveyance direction, the sheet supplying apparatus comprising:

• a plurality of sheet storing sections for storing the sheet;
• and
• a common conveyance path for conveying the sheet conveyed from the sheet feeding apparatus or the image forming apparatus on the upper stream side, or the sheet fed from the plurality of the sheet storing sections to the image forming apparatus or the post-processing apparatus on the down stream side, the common conveyance path comprising,
• a plurality of sheet feeding paths for feeding the sheet from the plurality of the sheet storing sections,
• a receiving conveyance path for receiving the sheet conveyed from the sheet feeding apparatus or the image forming apparatus connected to the sheet supplying apparatus through a sheet inlet at the upper stream side,
• a sending conveyance path for sending the sheet conveyed from the sheet feeding apparatus or the image forming apparatus on the upper stream side to the image forming apparatus or the post-processing apparatus connected to the sheet supplying apparatus at the down stream side, and
• a transit conveyance path for connecting the receiving conveyance path and the sending conveyance path,
• wherein the sending conveyance path has a shared conveyance path formed by merging a plurality of sheet conveyance paths for feeding the sheet from the plurality of sheet storing sections to a sheet outlet,
• wherein the plurality of sheet storing sections are able to be withdrawn from a sheet supplying apparatus main body, and
• wherein the transit conveyance path is integrally provided at a bottom portion of any one of the plurality of sheet storing sections, the transit conveyance path being withdrawn together with the sheet storing section.