Patent ID: 6691998
Filing Date: 2004-02-17
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus, comprising:at least two recording medium feeding apparatuses that can be stacked under the image forming apparatus, each recording medium feeding apparatus that accommodates a cassette that holds a stack of recording mediums, has a separator for separating the recording mediums, one by one, from the stack, and feeds the separated recording medium; an image forming apparatus body that can be stacked on a top of a top one of the at least two recording medium feeding apparatuses, and forms an image on the recording medium fed from the recording medium feeding apparatus; first deviation adjusting means that is provided upstream from an image forming unit that forms the image, in the image forming apparatus body, and temporarily stops the recording medium to adjust its deviation while contacting a leading edge of the recording medium; and second deviation adjusting means that is provided downstream from the separator, in each recording medium feeding apparatus, and temporarily stops a fed recording medium to adjust its deviation while contacting a leading edge of the recording medium, wherein the second deviation adjusting means also functions as conveying means for conveying the recording medium for a lower recording medium feeding apparatus toward the image forming apparatus body.