Patent ID: 7722032

Claim:
A sheet feeding device, comprising: a sheet loading table; a sheet feeding member that feeds a sheet from an uppermost portion of sheets stacked on the sheet loading table; a regulating member that regulates a side of sheets, in a transverse direction orthogonal to a sheet feeding direction; a cover that opens and closes a sheet feeding section; a lowering mechanism that lowers the sheet loading table that holds sheets at a sheet feeding position, to a lower position; an adjusting mechanism that adjusts a position of the regulating member in the transverse direction; a holding mechanism that holds a position of the sheet loading table so as to hold the sheets at the sheet feeding position; and a control device that controls drive of the sheet loading table, wherein the control device performs control 1 or control 2 by a selection of a user, wherein the cover is an opening and closing cover or door that can be opened and closed; upon control 1 being selected by the user and the cover is opened, the control device performs control 1 that controls the lowering mechanism to lower the sheet loading table to the lower position; and upon control 2 being selected by the user and the cover is opened, the control device performs control 2 that controls the lowering mechanism not to lower the sheet loading table to the lower position, but controls the holding mechanism to hold the position of the sheet loading table so as to hold the sheets stacked on the sheet loading table at the sheet feeding position.