Patent ID: 8678378

Claim:
A paper feeding cassette, comprising: a cassette body having a bottom wall; a medium-stacking member disposed so as to be swingable about a support shaft, as a swinging center, relative to the cassette body, the medium-stacking member having a medium-stacking surface configured to have a medium thereon stacked inside the cassette body; a front face wall disposed at a front portion of the cassette body and facing the medium; a separation pad disposed above the front face wall and used to separate individual medium sheets from the medium stacked inside the cassette body; and a mechanism configured to move the medium-stacking member that is upstream from the separation pad away from the bottom wall; wherein the front face wall includes a non-vertical inclined surface upwardly extending from a height that is lower than the support shaft, wherein the non-vertical inclined surface is provided lower than a center of the support shaft such that in a continuous area of the front face wall that extends both below and above a position of the front face wall that is at a same height in the direction perpendicular to the bottom wall as the height of the center of the support shaft, continuous area above the position inclines towards a same side with respect to the vertical direction relative to the bottom wall as continuous area below the position, and the support shaft is located above the medium-stacking surface in the state before the medium-stacking member moves away from the bottom wall.