Patent ID: 11964841
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 10:
11. A feeding apparatus, comprising:
a feeding roller that comes in contact with one of stacked printing media on a stacking unit and feeds the printing medium in a feeding direction;
a support member that supports the feeding roller;
an inclined portion that is arranged downstream of the feeding roller in the feeding direction, the inclined portion being inclined with respect to the stacking unit; and
a restriction member that is capable of coming in contact with the printing medium at a downstream side of the feeding roller in the feeding direction, wherein
the restriction member moves between a first position and a second position, the first position being set adjacent to a downstream region of the inclined portion in the feeding direction, the second position being set between the first position and the feeding roller with respect to the feeding direction, and
the restriction member is capable of being retracted to a third position, which is different from either the first position or the second position, depending on a size of the printing medium in a width direction crossing the feeding direction.