Patent ID: 8833754
Filing Date: 2014-09-16
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. A sheet feeding apparatus comprising: a tray which supports a plurality of sheets; a driving portion which lifts and lowers the tray; a sheet feeding portion, provided above the tray, configured to feed the sheet supported on the tray lifted by the driving portion; a rear regulating portion which has a regulating surface against which rear ends of the sheets supported by the tray abut to regulate a movement of the sheets in a direction opposite to a sheet feeding direction of the sheet feeding portion; and a stopper, movably provided for up and down movement on the rear regulating portion, which moves downward to a position in a gap formed between the regulating surface of the rear regulating portion and the sheets on the lifted tray to regulate the movement of rear ends of upper side sheets of the sheets on the lifted tray toward the rear regulating portion in the case of forming the gap between the regulating surface of the rear regulating portion and the rear ends of the sheets and the stopper is retracted upward by an upper face of an uppermost sheet of the sheets on the lifted tray in the case of not forming the gap between the regulating surface of the rear regulating portion and the rear ends of the sheets.