Patent ID: 8556253

Claim:
A sheet feeding apparatus, comprising: an apparatus body; a sheet cassette which stores sheets and is moved slidably between an attached position for feeding the sheet and a drawn position where the cassette is drawn from the apparatus body; a positioning portion which includes a fitting projection, projected in a sliding direction of the sheet cassette, arranged at one of the apparatus body and the sheet cassette and a fitting hole arranged at a face being perpendicular to the sliding direction of the sheet cassette of the other of the apparatus body and the sheet cassette and which performs positioning of the sheet cassette to the apparatus body in a horizontal direction being perpendicular to the sliding direction of the sheet cassette to fit the fitting projection with the fitting hole when the sheet cassette is slidingly moved to the attached position from the drawn position; and a restriction portion which performs restriction of movement of the sheet cassette in the horizontal direction when the sheet cassette is slidingly moved from the drawn position to a fitting beginning position where fitting of the positioning portion begins and which releases restriction of the movement of the sheet cassette in the horizontal direction when the sheet cassette is slidingly moved from the fitting beginning position to the attached position.