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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 13, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tadashi Yagi, Machida, JP;
Yutaka Kikuchi, Kawasaki, JP;
Sumitoshi Sootome, Yachiyo, JP;
Kazuyuki Morinaga, Yokohama, JP;
Hisayuki Tomura, Machida, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
271119 ; 271116 ; 271122 ; 271127 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a sheet supplying apparatus having a sheet stacking device for stacking and supporting sheets, a sheet supply roller having different radial dimensions along a periphery thereof to feed out the sheets from the sheet stacking device, and a separation unit having a feed rotary member rotated in a sheet feeding direction and a reverse rotary member rotated in a direction opposite to the sheet feeding direction to separate the sheets fed out by the sheet supply roller one by one.