Patent ID: 7918446

Claim:
A feeding device comprising: a pickup roller for picking up a placed medium to be transported and transporting the medium at a downstream side in a transport direction; a guide pathway for guiding the medium transported by the pickup roller; a transport driving roller that is driven by a power of a driving source and that transports the transported medium at the further downstream side in the transport direction; a retard roller that is moved to be brought into contact with and separated from the transport driving roller and that is rotated with a predetermined load; a transported medium tip regulation convex provided at a side at which the retard roller is provided in the guide pathway and at the downstream side of a nip point between the retard roller and the transport driving roller in the transport direction; and a control unit for moving the retard roller to separate from the transport driving roller after the retard roller rotates with the predetermined load, displacing a tip of a subsequent medium at the downstream side in the transport direction, and causing the tip of the subsequent medium to be moved at the downstream side in the transport direction by causing the tip of the subsequent medium to come into contact with and be held by the transported medium tip regulation convex, such that the tip of the subsequent medium is held at the side at which the retard roller is provided in the guide pathway and at the downstream side of the nip point between the retard roller and the transport driving roller in the transport direction.