Patent ID: 8403322
Filing Date: 2013-03-26
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. A sheet feed device comprising: a sheet accommodation unit that accommodates the sheets; a separation roller that feeds the sheets accommodated in the sheet accommodation unit; and a separation resistance body, which comprises a friction portion facing the separation roller, and which is configured to be contacted with and to be separated from the separation roller, wherein the sheet accommodation unit comprises a guide portion, which is extended along a sheet feed direction, which is provided at an upstream of the separation roller in the sheet feed direction, and which comprises a guide surface that guides the sheets, wherein the separation resistance body comprises a protruding portion, which protrudes upstream in the sheet feed direction from an upstream end portion of the separation resistance body, wherein the guide portion and the protruding portion are aligned in a width direction that is substantially perpendicular to the sheet feed direction, wherein a portion of the guide portion overlaps a portion of the protruding portion in the width direction at least when feeding the sheets, wherein an upstream end portion of the protruding portion in the sheet feed direction is retreated with regard to the guide surface of the guide portion at least when feeding the sheets, and wherein a downstream end portion of the guide portion in the sheet feed direction is curved in a downstream sheet feed direction.