Patent ID: 7874555

Claim:
A feeding apparatus comprising: a feeding roller, configured to pick up a stacked sheet and to feed the picked up sheet in a transporting direction; a medium guide, disposed downstream of the feeding roller in the transporting direction to guide the fed sheet; a pair of transporting rollers, operable to transport the guided sheet, wherein: the feeding roller is disposed at one side deviated from the center of the medium guide in a main scanning direction which is a widthwise direction of the fed sheet; the medium guide has a first guide section having a first path which guides the sheet and a second guide section having a second path which guides the sheet and a rigid tray, the second path different from the first path, the first guide section and the second guide section arranged in the main scanning direction; the first guide section is disposed at the one side where the feeding roller is deviated in the main scanning direction; the second guide section is disposed at the other side in the main scanning direction; and the second guide section has a flat section formed as a surface which is as high as and parallel with an upper surface of a platen, the flat section configured to guide the sheet and the rigid tray and an opening section into which the rigid tray is insertable, the opening section continuously provided with the flat section.