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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 02, 1994
Mitsuo Tsushima, Morioka, JP;
Toshiaki Amano, Yamagishi, JP;
Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention has its object to achieve a reduction in the size and cost of a paper feeding cassette. A cassette body (2) which can contain a plurality of papers is provided with a pair of front-edge guide sections (3) and (3) for positioning the front-edges of the papers, a pair of traverse guide sections (4) and (4) for positioning the side-edges of the papers, a rear-edge guide section (5) for positioning the rear-edges of the papers, a pair of separating sections (6) and (6) for separating one at a time the papers contained in the cassette body (2), and a pair of push-up members (7) and (7) for pushing upward both side sections of the front-edges of the papers toward the lower surfaces of a pair of separating sections (6) and (6). Both side sections of the front-edges of the papers are pushed upward toward the lower surfaces of the separating sections (6) and (6) by the elasticity of the push-up members (7) and ( 7).