Patent ID: 6896257

Claim:
A sheet supply apparatus for supplying a sheet to a predetermined processing position, comprising: a sheet supply tray for stacking sheets, sheet feeding means disposed adjacent to the sheet supply tray for feeding the sheets on the sheet supply tray one by one, register means for aligning one of the sheets transferred by the sheet feeding means, a leading end of the sheet abutting against the register means for alignment, setting means for setting a feeding amount of the sheet fed by the sheet feeding means, said setting means setting a first feeding amount that the sheet feeding means feeds the sheet to the register means when the sheets on the sheet supply tray have a same width in a direction perpendicular to a feeding direction of the sheets, and a second feeding amount larger than the first feeding amount when the sheets on the sheet supply tray have different widths, and control means electrically connected to the sheet feeding means and setting means for controlling the sheet feeding means to feed the sheet according to one of the first feeding amount and the second feeding amount set by the setting means.