Patent ID: 7032900

Claim:
A document feeding apparatus for feeding a document of which an image on a read surface is read by reading means, said document feeding apparatus comprising: a feeding roller which feeds the document to the reading means; a guide member for guiding a surface side opposite to the read surface of the document, wherein the guide member has a flat surface portion opposed to the reading means and an inclined portion disposed between the flat surface portion and the feeding roller and connected to an upstream side of the flat surface portion; a transparent sheet opposed to the guide member and for guiding the read surface of the document; and an elastic member provided so as to interpose said transparent sheet between the inclined portion and said elastic member, wherein said elastic member abuts against a surface of said transparent sheet opposite to a surface of said transparent sheet opposed to the inclined portion so that said elastic member holds said transparent sheet to let said transparent sheet contact with the inclined portion or make a gap between said transparent sheet and the inclined portion minute.