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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2012
Fumiki Inui, Mishima, JP;
Fumiki Inui, Mishima, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sheet feeding apparatus and an image forming apparatus, which can improve sheet feeding performance at low cost without degrading usability, are provided. ProjectionsT andT are provided in abutting surfaces, which abut on lateral end of a sheet S, of a pair of lateral-end regulating portionsandprovided opposite each other. The projections regulates climbing over the lateral-end regulating portions of the sheet S when the sheet S is fed. Guide projectionsandare provided opposite each other along a cassette attaching direction in an inner wall surface of an attaching space, in which a sheet feeding cassette of an apparatus body is attached. When the sheet S climbs over the projections in feeding the sheet S, the sheet S is abutted on the guide projections to regulate upward movement of the sheet S.