Patent ID: 7690645
Filing Date: 2010-04-06
Classification: B41J,B65H

Abstract:
1. A sheet supplying apparatus, comprising: a sheet holder which has a bottom wall and accommodates a plurality of recording sheets stacked on each other on the bottom wall; a sheet feeding device which feeds an uppermost one of the stacked recording sheets in a sheet-feed direction; an inclined guide plate which is provided downstream of the sheet holder in the sheet-feed direction, wherein the inclined guide plate has a sheet-guide surface which is configured to directly contact at least one of the recording sheets and which guides a movement of each of the recording sheets while changing a direction of said movement; a sheet-separate body with which the sheet feeding device cooperates to separate and feed the recording sheets, one by one, wherein the sheet-separate body is supported by the inclined guide plate, and includes a plurality of sheet-separate portions which are arranged in the sheet- feed direction and which project from a plurality of portions of the sheet-guide surface of the inclined guide plate; and at least one projecting portion which is supported by the inclined guide plate, at at least one position distant from the sheet-separate body in a widthwise direction of the sheet holder, and which has a curved surface projecting from the sheet-guide surface of the inclined guide plate, wherein a height by which an upstream-side portion of the curved surface of said at least one projecting portion with respect to the sheet-feed direction projects from the sheet-guide surface of the inclined guide plate gradually increases in the sheet-feed direction.