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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 1991
Filed:
Feb. 09, 1990
Toshiaki Sugiura, Hekinan, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi, JP;
Abstract
In a sheet feeding device adapted to be positioned in a main unit such as a copying machine, a printer and the like, having a case member for holding a plurality of cut-form sheets in a stacked state and a pair of feeding rollers for feeding the sheet one by one, an indicator for indicating a size of the stacked sheet and an interval change mechanism for automatically changing an interval between the pair of feeding rollers in accordance with the size indicated by the indicator when the sheet feeding device is positioned in the main unit, are provided. Thus, according to the size of the stacked sheet, the pair of sheet feeding rollers are respectively placed at the most suitable positions for a sheet feeding operation.