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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:
Apr. 08, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 5/00 ;
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to provide an image forming apparatus in which various kinds of sheets can be used and which can be made compact and reduce the number of parts. The present invention provides an image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet, which has a sheet feeding cassette, first sheet feeding means, and image forming means, wherein the sheet feeding cassette is provided with second sheet feeding means for feeding out a sheet contained in a second sheet storing portion different from the first sheet storing portion of the sheet feeding cassette.