Patent ID: 11858765
Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 18:
19. An image forming apparatus, comprising:
an image forming component; and
a sheet cassette adjacent the image forming component, comprising:
a sheet mounting component having a mounting surface on which a plurality of sheets are mountable;
a first side guide configured to come into contact with a sheet at one end in a sheet width direction which is perpendicular to a sheet conveying direction in which the sheet is conveyed out from the sheet mounting component to the image forming component and is parallel to the mounting surface;
a second side guide configured to come into contact with the sheet at the other end in the sheet width direction; and
a biasing component having a biasing member that biases at least the first side guide in a direction approaching the second side guide,

wherein the first side guide is further configured to rotate around a rotation shaft intersecting a plane of the mounting surface in a direction approaching the second side guide and separated from the second side guide.