Patent ID: 8002268
Filing Date: 2011-08-23
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. A sheet feeding apparatus comprising: a stacker for stacking sheet materials; a feeding roller for feeding sheet materials from the stacker; separating means, contactable to the sheet materials fed by said feeding roller, for separating the sheets one by one, wherein the feeding roller and the seperating means form a nip; and a first contact portion and a second contact portion which are contactable to the sheet at respective lateral sides of said feeding roller at upstream positions with respect to a feeding direction of the nip, wherein said first and second contact portions are contactable to the sheet at a side of the sheet opposite to a side thereof to which said feeding roller contacts, and wherein distances between a rotational axis of said feeding roller and said first and second contact portions are not longer than the distance between the rotational axis of said feeding roller and an outer peripheral surface of said feeding roller which is contactable to the sheet, wherein said first and second contact portions are contacted to the sheet at positions downstream of said stacker with respect to the feeding direction.