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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 1991
Filed:
Aug. 23, 1989
Hiroyoshi Haga, Kawaguchi, JP;
Tatsuhiko Oikawa, Kitakami, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An automatic sheet feeder for feeding paper sheets one by one toward a body of an image recording apparatus has a feed roller and lap feed preventing device for preventing two or more paper sheets from being fed together. The lap feed preventing device is implemented as a reverse roller which is pressed against the feed roller and provided with a circumferential recess in a predetermined position thereof. When paper sheets each being formed with three holes for filing at spaced locations along the width thereof are used with the sheet feeder, the circumferential recess of the reverse roller coincides with the intermediate hole of each paper sheet being fed.