Patent ID: 9611110
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: B65H

Claim:
1. A sheet feed cassette comprising: a cassette main body with an open top end that includes a bottom plate and side walls standing up from the bottom plate and that is configured to store a sheet sheaf of one or more sheets; a sheet loading plate supported in a tiltable manner about an upstream end of the bottom plate in a sheet feed direction and having an opening and a support surface that supports the sheet sheaf; a regulating member that is located on the bottom plate such as to protrude upward from the support surface of the sheet loading plate through the opening of the sheet loading plate, that is configured to be slidable within the opening in a sheet width direction perpendicular to the sheet feed direction, and that includes a regulating surface regulating the sheet sheaf by coming into contact with an edge of the sheet sheaf in the sheet width direction; and an auxiliary member including a supported portion supported by the sheet loading plate, the auxiliary member being in contact with the regulating surface of the regulating member, wherein the auxiliary member is turnable in parallel to the support surface of the sheet loading plate about the supported portion as a center, the auxiliary member turns in accompaniment to sliding of the regulating member, and the auxiliary member supports the sheet sheaf by being in contact with a part of the sheet sheaf located over the opening.