US 12,227,382 B2
Feeding device and recording device
Junko Ao, Shiojiri (JP); and Katsuyuki Kondo, Shiojiri (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/155,540.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-005595 (JP), filed on Jan. 18, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0227281 A1, Jul. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. B65H 3/06 (2006.01); B65H 1/08 (2006.01); B65H 3/56 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 3/06 (2013.01) [B65H 1/08 (2013.01); B65H 3/56 (2013.01); B65H 2404/165 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A feeding device comprising:
a medium stacking portion that stacks a medium;
an elevating portion that is configured to displace the medium of the medium stacking portion in a stacking direction;
a rotating member that feeds the medium lifted by the elevating portion in a feeding direction;
a guide portion that guides a downstream end in the feeding direction of the medium lifted by the elevating portion toward the rotating member; and
a handling portion that handles the medium toward the rotating member, wherein
the guide portion forms a frontage through which the medium is configured to pass between the guide portion and an outer peripheral surface of the rotating member, and is provided such that a size of the frontage is configured to be adjusted, and
the handling portion is provided integrally with the guide portion.