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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 1984
Filed:
Mar. 11, 1982
Kunihiro Shibuya, Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A feeding apparatus comprises a sheet cassette which stores and supports sheets P therein so that the sheets P can move between a feeding position and a non-feeding position, and is inserted into a housing of a copying machine, coil springs provided in the sheet cassette for biasing the sheets P from non-feeding position toward the feeding position, sheet feeding rollers provided in a fixed position and engaging a sheet P brought to the feeding position by the coil spring to feed the sheet P in the sheet cassette to the housing, engaging rollers at a fixed position in the housing, and levers defining cam surfaces which cooperate with the engaging rollers to move and thus isolate the sheets P from the sheet feeding rollers as the cassette is inserted into the housing, by engaging the cam section with the engaging roller.