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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 1989
Filed:
Feb. 18, 1987
Yasuji Sumida, Kita Katsuragi, JP;
Hiroshi Kajita, Kobe, JP;
Koji Ujino, Osaka, JP;
Atsushi Kano, Amagasaki, JP;
Takashi Maekawa, Osaka, JP;
Kiyotaka Shibata, Takatsuki, JP;
Mita Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A sheet feeding mechanism includes a receiving member, a feed member for feeding sheets from a stack thereof on the receiving member, and an overlapping feed preventing device including a roller to be rotated in a predetermined direction and a friction member cooperating with the roller. In relation to the friction member, a device is provided for substantially preventing the leading end of a fed sheet from contacting that part of the friction member which is upstream, in the sheet feeding direction, of the nipping site between the friction member and the roller.