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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 1991
Filed:
May. 10, 1990
Ken Iwamoto, Nara, JP;
Atsushi Narukawa, Koriyama, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A sheet supplying device supplies a sheet to a sheet supplied apparatus which designates the size and transport direction of the sheet. The sheet supplying device includes a movable cassette for placing the sheet thereon and movable to at least two transport positions so as to transport the sheet therefrom in at least two transport directions, a fixed cassette for placing the sheet thereon and fixed in one transport position so as to transport the sheet therefrom in one transport direction, a transport device for transporting the sheet from each of the movable cassette and the fixed cassette to the sheet supplied apparatus. The sheet supplying device further includes a control device, to which the size of the sheet placed on the movable cassette and the size and transport direction of the sheet placed on the fixed cassette are input, for selecting preferentially the fixed cassette as the cassette from which the sheet is transported by the transport device when the size of the sheet placed on the movable cassette corresponds to the designated size and, at the same time, the size and transport direction of the sheet placed on the fixed cassette correspond to the designated size and transport direction.