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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 17, 1995
Chujiro Yokoyama, Toyokawa, JP;
Haruhiko Hori, Okazaki, JP;
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A sheet feeding apparatus has a plurality of sheet trays each of which stores sheets to be fed. The sheet stored in the sheet trays is brought to a sheet feeding position by a plurality of sheet positioning mechanisms corresponding to the sheet trays, and is fed, one by one, at the sheet feeding position by a plurality of sheet feeding mechanisms corresponding to the sheet trays. Further, the sheet feeding apparatus has a motor which drives one of the sheet positioning mechanisms and the one of the sheet feeding mechanisms which corresponds to a sheet tray different from the sheet tray corresponding to the sheet feeding mechanism driven by the motor.