Patent ID: 7694959
Filing Date: 2010-04-13
Classification: B41J,B65H

Abstract:
1. A recording material feeding device comprising: a recording material mounting face portion on which recording materials are stacked for being fed; a movable edge guide that includes a body slide portion that is attached to the recording material mounting face portion so as to be slidable in a widthwise direction or in a feeding direction of the recording material, and a body operating portion having a guide face that contacts a side of the recording material while being fed; and a fixing means that fixes a position of the movable edge guide in a slide direction of the movable edge guide, wherein the fixing means includes: wherein a plurality of the notch columns are formed, each of the notch columns is formed to have the notches at the same pitch, wherein the engaging protrusions are provided separately for the respective notch columns, while the engaging protrusions are located at the same position in the slide direction, wherein the recording material feeding device is configured according to any one of a combination in which at least two of the notch columns are offset in phase and a combination in which all of the notch columns are the same in phase and at least two of the engaging protrusions are offset in position in the slide direction, and wherein the notch columns are formed of three columns in which the outside two notch columns are formed to be in the same phase and the inside notch column is formed to be in phase that is offset from the outside notch columns, or in which the outside two engaging protrusions are located at the same position in the slide direction and the inside engaging protrusion is located at a position that is offset from the outside engaging protrusions.