Patent ID: 7976014

Claim:
A feeding device comprising: a mounting portion capable of having a plurality of recording media mounted in a stacked state thereon; a delivering member which performs feeding operation in a state in which a contact surface of the delivering member is in contact with a top recording medium of the recording media mounted on the mounting portion to perform delivery of the recording media by using a frictional force generated between the delivering member and the top recording medium as a transporting force; wherein the delivering member is a feeding roller supported so as to be able to rotate around a rotary shaft; a separating member having an inclined surface against which a leading end of the recording medium delivered by the delivering member hits up against, the separating member being fixed in place at a downstream side of the mounting portion in a feeding direction of the recording media; a gate member placed above the separating member and at a downstream side of the delivering member in the feeding direction of the recording media such that the gate member is able to move in a direction in which the gate member gets closer to and moves away from the separating member; a gate urging member which urges the gate member in a direction in which the gate member gets closer to the separating member; an auxiliary roller able to move in a direction in which the auxiliary roller gets closer to and moves away from the feeding roller; and an auxiliary roller urging member capable of urging the auxiliary roller in a direction in which the auxiliary roller gets closer to the feeding roller, wherein the recording medium delivered by the feeding roller is pinched by the feeding roller and the auxiliary roller and then fed along by the rotation motion of the feeding roller.