Patent ID: 7909317
Filing Date: 2011-03-22
Classification: B65H,G03G,H04N

Abstract:
1. A document feeding device comprising: a sheet supply tray on which a plurality of documents are placed; a sheet supply section for feeding the documents one at a time from the sheet supply tray; a conveying path for guiding each of the fed documents, the conveying path being defined by two conveying surfaces each facing a side of the document, and having a curved portion; a conveying section positioned in the conveying path to clamp and fed the document; an output tray on which the document passing through the conveying path is placed; and a pressing member extending in a document width direction in the conveying path upstream of the curved portion, the pressing member extending in a conveying space from one of the conveying surfaces toward the other conveying surface, wherein a length of the pressing member in a protrusion direction in which the pressing member extends in the document conveying space is longer at a center portion than at both ends.