Patent ID: 8141864
Filing Date: 2012-03-27
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. A device for feeding a recording medium by separating loaded recording media sheet by sheet, the device comprising: an air outlet that includes at least one opening blows air to the recording media from a lateral side with respect to a direction of feeding the recording-medium, the air outlet being formed cross a recording-medium feeding plane, wherein the air outlet is formed such that: one of an upper most edge of the air outlet in an upstream direction of the recording-medium feeding direction is higher than an upper most edge of the air outlet in a downstream direction of the recording-medium feeding direction or a lower edge of the air outlet in the upstream most direction of the recording-medium feeding direction is higher than a lower edge of the air outlet in the downstream most direction of the recording-medium feeding direction, and the air outlet is further formed such that a center of the air outlet at an upstream most edge of the air outlet is higher than a center of the air outlet at a downstream most edge of the air outlet.