SHEET FEEDER AND IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE

• Main Authors: SUGAWARA HISAYOSHI, KURUSU YUKA, OTSUKA YOSHIFUMI, KONNO KAZUNORI, HASHIMOTO MASATO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 13.09.2023
• Subjects: CONVEYING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS,CABLES; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; STORING; TRANSPORTING

To provide a sheet feeder for holding parallelism in elevating and lowering an extension bottom plate.SOLUTION: A sheet feeder 200 has a sheet feed tray capable of feeding a sheet material loaded on a bottom plate toward an image formation device 100. In the sheet feeder 200 in which an extension bottom plate 62 projecting to the outside of the sheet feeder 200 is connected to a sheet feeding upstream end of a bottom plate 61 of the sheet feed tray, a casing 300 surrounding the extension bottom plate 62 is mounted on a side surface of the sheet feeder 200, and a support member 90 supporting a load of the extension bottom plate 62 is disposed between an inner wall surface of the casing 300 and the extension bottom plate 62.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5 【課題】延長底板の昇降における平行度を保持する。【解決手段】底板の上に積載したシート材を画像形成装置１００に向けて給紙可能な給紙トレイを有する給紙装置２００であって、給紙トレイの底板６１の給紙上流端に給紙装置２００の外側に張出した延長底板６２が接続された給紙装置２００において、給紙装置２００の側面に延長底板６２を包囲する筐体３００を装着すると共に、筐体３００の内壁面と延長底板６２との間に、延長底板６２の荷重を支える支持部材９０を配設したことを特徴とする。【選択図】図５