Patent ID: 8317189

Claim:
A sheet feeding apparatus, which feeds, by a sheet feeding portion, sheets stored in a sheet feeding cassette detachably mounted to an apparatus main body, the sheet feeding apparatus comprising: the sheet feeding cassette including: a cassette main body in which the sheets are stored; a sheet stacking portion provided on the cassette main body so as to pivot in an up-down direction, the sheet stacking portion pressing the stacked sheets onto the sheet feeding portion, and pivoting sequentially and upward when the sheets are fed so that an amount of stack of the sheets is reduced; a pair of side edge regulating portions provided on the cassette main body to be opposed to each other, and configured to regulate positions of side edges in a width direction orthogonal to a sheet feeding direction of the sheets stacked on the sheet stacking portion, at least one of the pair of side edge regulating portions being movable in the width direction; and a sheet pressing portion provided in an urged state on the one of the pair of side edge regulating portions, the sheet pressing portion pressing the side edges of the sheets to press the sheets onto another one of the pair of side edge regulating portions, the sheet pressing portion including: a pressing portion configured to press the side edges of the sheets; and a recessed portion intersecting the pressing portion, the recessed portion being formed to be inclined so that a downstream edge in the sheet feeding direction of a lower surface of the recessed portion is located higher than an upstream edge in the sheet feeding direction of an upper surface of the recessed portion.