Patent ID: 7222846

Claim:
A sheet take-out apparatus comprising: a sheet-feeding member on which sheets are placed; an air spout unit to spout out air toward a right or left side of a front portion of said sheets with respect to a taking-out direction of said sheets in order for the front portion of said sheets to separate from each other; a take-out unit to take out an uppermost sheet from said sheets in the taking-out direction when the air spouted out maintains the sheets separated from each other; and a depression member to depress said sheets against said sheet-feeding member from the uppermost sheet on a rear portion of said sheets located behind a central portion of said sheets with respect to the taking-out direction, wherein the sheet-feeding member includes a plurality of rod members that are arranged substantially parallel to one another in a same plane, the rod members being moveable along a direction substantially perpendicular to the plane.