Patent ID: 8371574

Claim:
A sheet feeding device to feed a sheet in a feeding path, comprising: a body; a sheet cassette configured to be attachable to and removable from the body and to accommodate a stack of sheets, the sheet cassette comprising; a lifting plate arranged inside the sheet cassette to support the stack of sheets thereon, to be moved to an uplifted position after the sheet cassette is attached to the body and when printing is executed, and maintained at a lowered position after the sheet cassette is attached to the body and until the printing is executed, and to uplift the stack of sheets according to the movement of the lifting plate to the uplifted position; and a restrictive member configured to be movable in association with the movement of the lifting plate, the restrictive member including a restricting part, which restricts a height of the stack of sheets accommodated in the sheet cassette, wherein the restrictive member is in a restrictive position, in which at least the restricting part of the restrictive member is arranged over the stack of sheets accommodated in the sheet cassette, when the lifting plate is in the lowered position; and wherein the restrictive member is in a retracted position, in which the restrictive member is retracted off from the stack of sheets accommodated in the sheet cassette, when the lifting plate is in the uplifted position.