Sheet material feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakayuki Okamoto
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Abstract
The sheet material feeding apparatus according to this invention comprises a sheet material stacking unit selectively located at a feeding position for feeding a sheet material and at a standby position for non-feeding a sheet material; a first holding force applying unit configured to apply a first holding force and a second holding force applying unit configured to apply a second holding force for holding the guide member to the sheet material stacking unit; and a restraining unit configured to restrain the second holding force applying unit from applying the second holding force when the sheet material stacking unit is in the standby position.
Claims6
A sheet material feeding apparatus comprising:
- a sheet material stacking unit located selectively at a feeding position for feeding a sheet material and at a standby position for non-feeding a sheet material and on which one or more sheet materials are stacked;
- a guide member mounted to the sheet material stacking unit to restrict the position and direction of the sheet material, the guide member being slidable on the sheet material stacking unit in a direction perpendicular to a sheet material feeding direction;
- a first holding force applying unit configured to apply a first holding force for holding the guide member to the sheet material stacking unit;
- a second holding force applying unit configured to apply a second holding force for holding the guide member to the sheet material stacking unit;
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- a restraining unit configured to restrain the second holding force applying unit from applying the second holding force when the sheet material stacking unit is in the standby position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.