Patent ID: 7984901
Filing Date: 2011-07-26
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. A paper feeding cassette comprising: a cassette case configured to store sheets; a sheet tray on which the sheets are stacked, the sheet tray being rotatably attached to the cassette case; a push-up member configured to push up the sheet tray and rotate the sheet tray in one direction when driving force is input and release the push-up of the sheet tray to allow rotation of the sheet tray in the other direction when the input of the driving force is interrupted; and a buffer member configured to be nipped by the cassette case and the sheet tray and elastically deformed when the sheet tray rotates in the other direction, the buffer member located, when viewed from a stacking direction of the sheets, along an end of the sheet tray in a section closest to a rotation axis of the sheet tray and in an area of the sheet tray different from an area in which the sheets are stacked.