PAPER FEEDING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE

• Main Authors: MATSUMOTO KEIGO, FUJIWARA YASUHIRO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 01.06.2017
• Subjects: CONVEYING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS,CABLES; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; STORING; TRANSPORTING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a means for suppressing skew of a medium that is fed from a medium placement part.SOLUTION: A paper feeding device includes a medium placement part for placing a medium, a guide member which is provided movably relative to the medium placement part and has a guide surface for guiding a side part of the medium, and a pick-up member which is arranged for rotation around a rotating shaft, for sending the medium placed on the medium placement part along a medium transportation direction. The pick-up member moves in the direction of rotational shaft according to the sending operation.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6 【課題】媒体載置部から給紙される媒体の斜行を抑制する手段を提供する。【解決手段】媒体を載置する媒体載置部と、前記媒体載置部に対して移動自在に設けられ、媒体の側部を案内するガイド面を有するガイド部材と、回転軸を中心に回転自在に配置され、前記媒体載置部に載置された媒体を媒体搬送方向へ送り出すピックアップ部材と、を有し、前記ピックアップ部材は、前記送り出し動作に伴って、前記回転軸方向に移動する。【選択図】 図６