US 11,851,297 B2
Feeding apparatus, printing apparatus, and control method of feeding apparatus
Ryo Harigae, Tokyo (JP); and Kenji Shimamura, Saitama (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/197,433.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-043332 (JP), filed on Mar. 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0284476 A1, Sep. 16, 2021
Int. Cl. B65H 23/16 (2006.01); B41J 15/16 (2006.01); B65H 23/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 23/16 (2013.01) [B41J 15/16 (2013.01); B65H 23/005 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A feeding apparatus comprising
a roll support unit configured to rotatably support a roll sheet which is a sheet wound into a roll form;
a first drive unit configured to rotate the roll sheet supported by the roll support unit in a predetermined rotation direction to feed the sheet into a conveyance path;
an abutment portion provided so as to be capable of abutting against an outer peripheral surface of the roll sheet at a first position;
a rotation member provided so as to be capable of abutting against the outer peripheral surface at a second position different from the first position; and
a second drive unit,
wherein the first drive unit rotates the roll sheet in the predetermined rotation direction to introduce, into the conveyance path, a leading edge of the sheet having passed between the first position and the second position, and
the second drive unit is configured to rotate the rotation member in a direction in which a slack of the sheet is formed between the first position and the second position.