Patent ID: 8342504

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: a side cover which constitutes part of an apparatus main body and is rotatably supported at a lower end portion thereof to be freely opened and closed; a paper-sheet supply tray that is used to place a paper sheet thereon, constitutes part of the side cover, and supported rotatably at a lower end portion thereof to be freely opened and closed from and to the side cover; a paper-sheet pushing-up plate that is supported rotatably at an upstream end portion in a paper-sheet carry direction thereof, capable of pressurizing and separating the paper sheet placed on the paper-sheet supply tray to and from a paper-sheet carry roller that is disposed in the apparatus main body; a carry guide that is disposed along an inner surface of the side cover, supported rotatably at a lower end portion thereof, and forms a paper-sheet carry path for guiding upward the paper sheet, which is carried from the paper-sheet supply tray by the paper-sheet carry roller, in a vertical direction; wherein at least the side cover, the paper-sheet supply tray and the paper-sheet pushing-up plate are supported by a same support shaft and both ends of the paper-sheet pushing-up plate are supported by the support shaft at positions further outward in a longitudinal direction of the support shaft than those of the side cover and the paper-sheet supply tray.