US 12,404,122 B2
Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus
Jumpei Nitta, Kanagawa (JP); and Kazuhiro Hosohara, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 24, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/534,530.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-205494 (JP), filed on Dec. 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0185605 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
Int. Cl. B65H 1/04 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 1/04 (2013.01) [G03G 15/6529 (2013.01); B65H 2402/31 (2013.01); B65H 2402/32 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sheet feeding apparatus comprising:
an apparatus body;
a cover openably and closably supported between a first closed position and a first open position with respect to the apparatus body, the cover including a first surface;
a first tray movable between a second closed position where the first tray is accommodated in the apparatus body and a second open position where the first tray is capable of supporting a sheet, the first tray including a second surface;
an interlocking portion configured to move the first tray from the second closed position to the second open position in a case where the cover is opened from the first closed position to the first open position;
a second tray drawably supported by the first tray and capable of supporting the sheet together with the first tray; and
a feed portion configured to feed the sheet supported by the first and second trays in a sheet feeding direction,
wherein when the cover moves from the first closed position to the first open position, the second tray moves relative to the cover so that the second tray is lifted up from the cover,
wherein when the cover moves from the first closed position to the first open position, the cover moves so that a first straight line along the first surface moves from a first position to a second position, and when the first tray moves from the second closed position to the second open position, the first tray moves so that a second straight line along the second surface moves from a third position to a fourth position, and
wherein a narrow angle between the second straight line at the third position and the second straight line at the fourth position is smaller than a narrow angle between the first straight line at the first position and the first straight line at the second position, and
wherein the first tray includes a guide configured to guide the second tray while the second tray is being drawn out of the first tray.