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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 1991
Filed:
Oct. 19, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tatsuya Murai, Yokohama, JP;
Masumi Ikesue, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsutoyo Kikuno, Tokyo, JP;
Masayuki Shinada, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
271111 ; 271117 ;
Abstract
A sheet feeder for an image forming apparatus having a sheet feed unit which incorporates a pair of feed rollers for feeding paper sheets one by one out of at least one sheet cassette toward an image transfer station by nipping them. The sheet feed unit is automatically moved by a guide to a position where the feed rollers align with the intermediate between opposite widthwise edges of the paper sheets.