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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1999
Michihiro Fujii, Hyogo, JP;
Wataru Miki, Hyogo, JP;
Fujitsu, Ltd., Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A sheet cassette for an image forming apparatus supports a pivotally mounted sheet loading plate while giving a degree of freedom to the cassette tray by allowing a free end of the sheet loading tray to vertically move. Sheet guides for regulating the lateral position of sheets on the sheet loading tray are supported by the cassette tray and are aligned with apertures provided in the sheet loading plate, so that some play exists between the sheet guides and the cassette tray. Also, the problem that the sheets on the loading tray may run diagonally, or their printing position may be shifted laterally, when the sheet is fed from the cassette tray by the feed roller is overcome by the invention wherein a part of, or the entire sheet guides, are pivotally supported directly on the sheet loading plate so that each sheet guide is pivoted with respect to the sheet loading plate whereby, even when the sheet loading plate is moved upward, the sheet guides will not project outside the cassette tray but, instead, to the rear side of the sheet loading plate within the cassette tray. Apparatus is also provided for adjusting the fitting angle and the width direction position of the sheet loading plate.