Patent ID: 9573779
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: B65H

Claim:
1. A feeding apparatus comprising: a sheet stacking unit provided with an inclined plane for stacking a plurality of sheets; a movable separation surface which is provided so as to lie at an angle with the inclined plane and so as to support lower side ends of the stacked sheets in a gravitational force direction, which provides a resistance force to separate the fed sheet from the sheet stacking unit, the fed sheet provided so as to be able to move along a surface of said movable separation surface toward a downstream side and an upstream side of a path for the fed sheet, and the movable separation surface adapted to move toward the downstream side by a force in the sheet feeding direction due to a weight of the stacked sheets; an other separation surface which is provided so as to lie at an angle with the inclined plane, and that is different from said movable separation surface, and that applies a resistance force to the fed sheet that is smaller than resistance force applied by said movable separation surface, wherein the movable separation surface and the other separation surface are arranged in a direction crossing the path; and a prevention unit configured to, in a case where the movable separation surface is located at a specified position within a range that the movable separation surface moves, prevent the movable separation surface from moving toward at least the downstream side, wherein at the specified position, said movable separation surface protrudes out from said other separation surface in a moving direction of said movable separation surface, and further comprising a control unit configured to control the prevention unit so that said prevention unit prevents said movable separation surface from moving when a printing section for performing printing is in a standby state.