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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 1995
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1993
Hideaki Kawakami, Yokohama, JP;
Takehiko Kiyohara, Zama, JP;
Tetsuo Suzuki, Yokohama, JP;
Junichi Asano, Kawasaki, JP;
Soichi Hiramatsu, Yokohama, JP;
Masahiro Taniguro, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroyuki Saito, Yokohama, JP;
Haruyuki Yanagi, Yokohama, JP;
Takashi Nojima, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Saikawa, Inagi, JP;
Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Kawasaki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a sheet supplying apparatus having an extendible sheet support for supporting sheets, a sheet supply for feeding out the sheets supported by the sheet support, a shiftable separating claw capable of separating the sheets fed by the sheet supply, one by one, by engaging from corners of the sheets supported by the sheet support, a regulator for shifting the separating claw toward the sheet support in response to insert and retracting movements of the sheet support and a second separator for separating the sheets rested on an upper surface of the separating claw shifted toward the sheet support by the regulator, one by one, when the sheets are fed out by the sheet supply.