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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 24, 1997
Hiroyuki Kato, Nagoya, JP;
Fumikazu Sato, Nagoya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
A sheet-feed device including: a hopper having a surface on which sheets are stacked; at least one sheet-feed roller for abutting a surface of an uppermost sheet of the sheets so that rotation of the at least one sheet-feed roller feeds the uppermost sheet in a sheet-feed direction; a wall portion formed at a front edge, with respect to the sheet-feed direction, of the hopper, the wall portion including: a slanting surface gradually slanting in the sheet-feed direction with increasing distance from the surface of the hopper; and an indentation portion formed at a position corresponding to position of the at least one sheet-feed roller and receded away from the slanting surface in the sheet-feed direction.