Sheet supply apparatus

Details Sheet supply apparatus Sheet supply apparatus

1995-06-07

1996-10-15

Skaggs, H. Grant

Sheet feeding or delivering

Feeding

Pack holders

271127, 271160, 271164, B65H 126

Patent

active

055646905

ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a sheet supplying apparatus including a sheet cassette removably mountable to the sheet supply apparatus and having a rockable sheet support plate for supporting sheets, and a biasing device for biasing the sheet support plate toward a sheet supply device of the sheet supplying apparatus for feeding out the sheets; a locking device for locking the sheet support plate at a position spaced apart from the sheet supply device in opposition to a biasing force of the biasing means; a releasing device for releasing a locking condition of the locking device when the sheet cassette is mounted to the sheet supplying apparatus; and a buffer device for reducing a shifting speed of the sheet support plate effected by the biasing device when the locking condition of the locking device is released by the releasing device. The present invention further provides an image forming apparatus including such sheet supplying apparatus.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4269407 (1981-05-01), Tsuda et al.
patent: 4280692 (1981-07-01), Hutchinson et al.
patent: 5078380 (1992-01-01), Kitazawa
patent: 5222725 (1993-06-01), Kasahara et al.

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