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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hiroshi Hiura, Toride, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 1/00 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a sheet containing apparatus which is mounted to an image forming apparatus and adapted to contain a sheet to be fed to image forming mechanism of the image forming apparatus. And the sheet containing apparatus has a frame having a bottom plate and a side plate upright from the bottom plate, an end regulating mechanism movable in accordance with a size of a sheet contained in the frame and adapted to regulate an end of the sheet, and a flexion preventing mechanism provided on the end regulating mechanism and adapted to prevent the end regulating mechanism from being flexed by engagement with the side plate.