Sheet supporting apparatus and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShunsuke Okazaki, Akira Matsushima
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Abstract
A sheet supporting apparatus includes a body, a supporting portion configured to be held in an elevating manner by the body and to support a sheet, a sheet regulation portion regulating a position of the sheet supported on the supporting portion, a movement portion capable of moving between a first position where the sheet regulation portion regulates the position of the sheet supported on the supporting portion, and a second position where the supporting portion is regulated from elevating with respect to the body, and a movement regulation unit regulating the movement portion from moving to the second position.
Claims14
A sheet supporting apparatus comprising:
- a body;
- a supporting portion configured to be held in an elevating manner by the body and to support a sheet;
- a sheet regulating member configured to regulate a position of the sheet supported on the supporting portion;
- a movement portion capable of moving between a first position and a second position;
- a lock portion configured to lock the supporting portion;
- an interlocking mechanism configured to interlock the lock portion with the movement portion, the interlocking mechanism causing the lock portion to unlock the supporting portion to allow the sheet regulation portion regulating the position of the sheet supported on the supporting portion to move in a case where the movement portion is positioned at the first position, the interlocking mechanism causing the lock portion to regulate the supporting portion to prevent the supporting portion from elevating with respect to the body in a case where the movement portion is positioned at the second position;
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- a movement regulation unit configured to regulate movement of the movement portion to the second position from the first position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.