Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Kazumasa Hayakawa

Tatsumi Makio

Genta Sakaguchi

A paper sheet feeding arrangement for feeding paper sheets one sheet by one sheet, including a paper sheet cassette, a paper feeding roller, a feed roller, a paper sheet separating roller rotated, in contact with the feed roller, in a direction counter to a paper feeding direction, a return roller provided rotatably and coaxially with one of the feed roller and the paper sheet separating roller, and a paper sheet returning device which, in response to release of the paper sheet cassette from a paper feeding section, not only brings the feed roller and the paper sheet separating roller out of contact with each other but rotates the return roller in the direction counter to the paper feeding direction.

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Toyokawa, Japan

Kazumasa Hayakawa