Patent ID: 9187272
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. A sheet feeding device, comprising: a feeding tray on which a sheet is placed; a conveying device feeding the sheet on the feeding tray to an image reading device; an ejecting tray receiving the sheet after image reading; a feeding guide configured to be movable in a direction intersecting a feeding direction of the sheet and to regulate a position in a width direction of the sheet on the feeding tray; a conveying rib configured to be movable in interlocking with movement of the feeding guide and to lead the sheet to be ejected onto the ejecting tray; an ejecting guide configured to be movable together with the conveying rib in interlocking with movement of the feeding guide and to regulate a position in the width direction of the ejected sheet; and fixed ribs arranged in parallel with the conveying rib in the width direction of the sheet and positioned so as to come into slidably contact with the sheet having minimum width; wherein a pair of the feeding guides, a pair of the conveying ribs and a pair of the ejecting guides are arranged so as to respectively face to each other in the width direction of the sheet, so that the guide width of the pair of the ejecting guides may be wider than the guide width of the pair of the feeding guides; and one fixed rib at the center in the width direction is formed larger than the other fixed ribs.