Patent ID: 8690150

Claim:
A sheet feed device which feeds a sheet, comprising: a sheet stacking portion that includes a rotation stacking portion which is rotatable; a sheet feed roller that feeds a sheet stacked on the sheet stacking portion; a separating portion that separates the sheet fed by the sheet feed roller, wherein the rotation stacking portion is configured to be rotatable about a rotation fulcrum located on a downstream side in a sheet feed direction of a contact point of the sheet feed roller to the sheet stacked on the stacking portion, and wherein the rotation stacking portion is configured to be rotatable between a first position and a second position, the second position being a position at which the rotation stacking portion has been rotated about the rotation fulcrum so that an upstream side in the sheet feed direction is higher than an upstream side in the sheet feed direction when the rotation stacking portion is in the first position; and a hold member configured to hold the rotation stacking portion at the second position, wherein the sheet feed roller is configured to feed the sheet whether the rotation stacking portion is at the first position or at the second position, and wherein the sheet feed roller is above the rotation stacking portion.