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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 1995
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355309 ; 355 72 ; 271127 ; 271160 ;
Abstract
A sheet supplying apparatus having sheet container for stacking and supporting sheets, and sheet supplying device for feeding out the sheet contained in the sheet container by applying a feeding force to the sheet. Sheet container includes a shiftable intermediate plate on which the sheets are stacked and a plurality of pressurizing members for biasing the intermediate plate toward the sheet supplying device to urge the sheets stacked on the intermediate plate against the sheet supplying device, and each of the pressurizing members being selected in response to the used amount of the sheets stacked on the intermediate plate to apply a biasing force to the intermediate plate.