US 12,291,418 B2
Sheet feeding apparatus and recording apparatus
Yuki Ikeda, Kanagawa (JP); Hikaru Watanabe, Tokyo (JP); Ryo Harigae, Tokyo (JP); and Tomohiro Suzuki, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/062,470.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-211159 (JP), filed on Dec. 24, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0202783 A1, Jun. 29, 2023
Int. Cl. B65H 19/12 (2006.01); B65H 5/06 (2006.01); B65H 16/10 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 5/06 (2013.01) [B65H 19/12 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sheet feeding apparatus comprising:
a support portion including arc shaped surface and configured to rotatably support a roll of sheet;
a first gear disposed on a spool shaft to be inserted into the roll to support the roll with the support portion;
a guide portion including a slope portion and configured to, in loading the roll, guide the spool shaft in a guide direction from above the support portion to the support portion;
a second gear disposed on the support portion and configured to be engaged with the first gear;
a motor configured to rotate the second gear; and
a roller configured to contact an outer periphery of the roll supported by the support portion,
wherein the roller is configured to contact the roll from upstream in the guide direction, and, in feeding the sheet, the sheet is fed from the roll supported by the support portion.