Patent ID: 8678373

Claim:
A cut-sheet feeder for bringing a feed belt into rotational contact with the lowermost cut sheet of a stack of cut sheets, one stacked on another, and for drawing and feeding the lowermost cut sheet sequentially from the stack of cut sheets in the forward direction of feeding of cut sheets, the cut-sheet feeder comprising: a belt contact amount adjuster disposed below the stack of cut sheets, and while a rear portion of the lowermost cut sheet of the stack of cut sheets from an intermediate position in the direction of feeding of cut sheets being lifted off the feed belt, supporting a front portion from the intermediate position rotationally contactably with the feed belt, an inclined guide member disposed below the rear end of the stack of cut sheets and protruded above the belt contact amount adjuster, the inclined guide member also having a guide surface inclined downwardly in the forward direction and shifting the plurality of cut sheets included in the stack of cut sheets along the guide surface in the direction of feeding of cut sheets, an inclined guide member variable support mechanism being capable of moving and fixing the inclined guide member at a given position in the direction of feeding of cut sheets, and a belt contact amount adjusting mechanism being capable of moving separately from the inclined guide member and of fixing the belt contact amount adjuster at a given position in the direction of feeding of cut sheets.