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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2004
Ichiro Sasaki, Ibaraki, JP;
Takahiro Watanabe, Chiba, JP;
Keita Takahashi, Chiba, JP;
Naoto Watanabe, Chiba, JP;
Takuya Kawamura, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiro Serizawa, Ibaraki, JP;
Hitoshi Kato, Ibaraki, JP;
Ichiro Sasaki, Ibaraki, JP;
Takahiro Watanabe, Chiba, JP;
Keita Takahashi, Chiba, JP;
Naoto Watanabe, Chiba, JP;
Takuya Kawamura, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiro Serizawa, Ibaraki, JP;
Hitoshi Kato, Ibaraki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sheet supplying apparatus having a plurality of sheet decks for supplying sheets connected in series, and provided with a controller for controlling the feeding of the sheets of each sheet deck, wherein each sheet deck has a sheet stacking portion for supporting the sheets thereon, a sheet conveying path for guiding the sheets from an upstream side to a downstream side, and a joining conveying path joining the sheet conveying path for guiding the sheets from the sheet stacking portion to the sheet conveying path, wherein the sheet decks are connected in such a manner that the respective sheet conveying paths are connected thereto, and the controller judges the position of the sheet deck for supplying a sheet preceding by one the sheet supplied in predetermined order when the sheets are supplied in order from each sheet deck and controls so as to pre-feed the sheet in the predetermined order to the vicinity of the upstream side of a joining point between the sheet conveying path in the sheet deck for supplying the preceding sheet and the joining conveying path when the judged sheet deck is disposed downstream of the sheet deck for supplying the sheet in the predetermined order.