Patent ID: 8267397

Claim:
A recording material feeding device comprising: a recording material mounting face portion on which recording materials are stacked for being fed; a movable edge guide that includes a body slide portion that is attached to the recording material mounting face portion so as to be slidable in a widthwise direction or in a feeding direction of the recording material, and a body operating portion having a guide face that contacts a side of the recording material while being fed; and a fixing means that fixes a position of the movable edge guide in a slide direction of the movable edge guide, wherein the fixing means includes: notch columns that are provided on a surface of the recording material mounting face portion along the slide direction of the movable edge guide; engaging protrusions that are provided on the movable edge guide and that engage notches of the notch columns, and a guide salient portion that is located at the downstream side of the body slide portion in the feeding direction and guides the recording material, wherein the body slide portion includes a plurality of slits arranged in a vertical direction from a top edge of the movable edge guide to a bottom edge, wherein the guide salient portion is positioned below the one of the plurality of slits closest to the bottom edge of the movable edge guide, wherein the guide salient portion guides an end side portion, which is a distal end in an advancing direction when the recording material advances in the reverse direction at the time when the recording material is returned in the reverse direction of a transport direction, in a direction away from an outer surface of a plate-like portion of the body slide portion, and wherein the recording material feeding device is configured according to any one of a combination in which at least two of the notch columns are offset in phase and a combination in which all of the notch columns are the same in phase and at least two of the engaging protrusions are offset in position in the slide direction.