Patent ID: 7708264
Filing Date: 2010-05-04
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. A sheet feeding device, comprising: a sheet feeding tray which stacks a paper sheet bundle formed by a plurality of sheets; a first blower which blows air to a side edge of the paper sheet bundle stacked on the sheet feeding tray; a second blower which blows air to a leading edge of the paper sheet bundle in a sheet conveyance direction from a forward side of the paper sheet bundle in the sheet conveyance direction; and an adsorption conveyance section which adsorbs a topmost sheet of the paper sheet bundle stacked on the sheet feeding tray and conveys the topmost sheet one by one; wherein a first area in which the adsorption conveyance section is provided, and a second area in which a ventilation port of the first blower is provided, respectively includes an overlapping area in which the first area and the second area overlap on the sheet conveyance direction; and wherein the leading edge of the ventilation portion of the first blower in the sheet conveyance direction is arranged to be upstream side of a position of a half the length of a adsorption side of the adsorption conveyance section in the sheet conveyance direction.