Patent ID: 8448940

Claim:
A sheet feeding apparatus comprising: a sheet stacking portion, provided on a cassette main body so as to pivot in an up-down direction, which supports sheets thereon; a sheet feeding portion which feeds the sheet on the sheet stacking portion; a pair of side edge regulating portions, provided on the cassette main body to be opposed to each other, which regulates positions of the sheets on the sheet stacking portion in a width direction orthogonal to a sheet feeding direction of the sheets; a first sheet pressing portion, provided on the one of the pair of side edge regulating portions, which presses the side edges of the sheets toward another one of the pair of side edge regulating portions; a second sheet pressing portion, provided on an upper portion on the downstream in the sheet feeding direction of the first sheet pressing portion, which presses the side edges of the sheets toward another one of the pair of side edge regulating portions; and a recessed portion, provided on the first sheet pressing portion, which is formed to be inclined parallel to the sheet stacking portion when the sheet stacking portion pivots upward by a predetermined amount in association with a reduction of the sheets on the sheet stacking portion, wherein in a case of an amount of the sheets on the sheet stacking portion is less than the predetermined amount, the first sheet pressing portion does not press the sheets on the sheet stacking portion and the second sheet pressing portion presses the sheets on the sheet stacking portion toward another one of the pair of side edge regulating portions.