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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 16, 1994
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A sheet feeding apparatus has a forwarding device for successively forwarding a plurality of sheets accommodated in a state of stacked layer one by one. The forwarding device is movable between a sheet forwarding position where the forwarding device is brought in contact with the leading end of a sheet for forwarding the sheet and a retracted position where the forwarding device is separated away from the sheet. The apparatus includes a transport device for receiving a sheet forwarded by the forwarding device and transporting the sheet in a predetermined direction of transport. The apparatus also includes a control device for controlling a timing of movement of the forwarding device, wherein the control device forwards a sheet by positioning the forwarding device at a forwarding position and moves the forwarding device to a retracted position after the leading end of the sheet is forwarded by the forwarding device, and further start moving the forwarding device to the forwarding position for forwarding the following sheet before the rear end of the sheet previously forwarded passes through the forwarding device, and the forwarding device is positioned at the forwarding position after the rear end of the sheet previously forwarded has passed through the forwarding device.