Patent ID: 9696678
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: B65H,G03G

Claim:
1. A sheet feeding apparatus comprising: a sheet stacking portion on which a sheet is stacked; a pick-up roller configured to contact with stacked sheets on the sheet stacking portion from above the sheet stacking portion and to feed an uppermost sheet from among the stacked sheets on the sheet stacking portion: a driven rotating body contacting with the pick-up roller and driven by the pick-up roller; a driving source configured to drive the pick-up roller; a shutter member movable between a first position where the shutter member abuts against a downstream end portion in the sheet feeding direction of the sheet fed by the pick-up roller and stops the sheet and a second position where the sheet passes the shutter member, the shutter member disposed in a vicinity of a nip portion formed by the pick-up roller and the driven rotating body; and a torque limiter provided between the pick-up roller and the driving source, transmitting a driving force of the driving source to the pick-up roller in a state that a load of less than a predetermined torque is applied to the pick-up roller by the sheet, and not transmitting the driving force of the driving source to the pick-up roller in a state that the sheet is stopped by the shutter member and a load of more than the predetermined torque is applied to the pick-up roller by the sheet, wherein, when the shutter member is in the first position, the shutter member overlaps with the pick-up roller when viewed along a rotational axis of the pick-up roller.