Patent ID: 6978113

Claim:
An image forming device for forming an image on a cut image recording medium comprising: a sheet feeder unit storing therein a stack of image recording mediums, and comprising a separation unit that intermittently separates one sheet of the stack from a remaining stack at a separating position and feeds the one sheet in a sheet feeding direction; an image forming unit at which a visible image is formed on the image recording medium fed from the sheet feeder unit; a conveying path extending between the sheet feeder unit and the image forming unit, each image recording medium being conveyed through the conveying path in the sheet feeding direction from the sheet feeder unit to the image forming unit; a sheet leading edge position regulating unit having a part selectively protrudable, near the separating position, into the conveying path to provide a protruding position and selectively retractable away from the conveying path to provide a retracting position, a leading edge position of the image recording medium being regulated upon protrusion of the part into the conveying path and; a controller controlling a protruding timing and retracting timing of the part of the sheet leading edge position regulating unit in timed relation to a separation timing by the separation unit; wherein the sheet leading edge position regulating unit comprises: a regulating lever movable between the protruding position and the retracting position; a biasing member connected to the regulating lever for normally biasing the regulating lever toward the protruding position; an actuator connector between the controller and the regulating lever for moving the regulating lever toward the retracting position.