SHEET SUPPLYING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THIS

摘要

A sheet supplying apparatus includes a supply part, a cover, a base tray, an interlock mechanism, and an auxiliary tray. The supply part is provided in the apparatus body. The cover is provided to be turnable between a close position and an open position. The base tray composes a part of a loading surface on which the sheet is loaded, and is movable in a conveyance direction with respect to the cover. The interlock mechanism moves the base tray by interlocking with the cover turning, and moves the base tray by interlocking with the cover turning. The auxiliary tray is displaceable between a storage position and a raising position. An engage part includes a lifting part. The lifting part comes into pressure contact with an engaged part and displaces the auxiliary tray from the storage position to the raising position.

主权项

1. A sheet supplying apparatus comprising:
a supply part provided in an apparatus body and configured to deliver a sheet; a cover supported openably on a side surface of the apparatus body through a turning shaft and turnable between a close position covering the supply part and an open position exposing the supply part; abase tray disposed on an upper surface of the cover disposed at the open position, composing a part of a loading surface on which the sheet is loaded, and movable in a sheet conveyance direction with respect to the cover; an interlock mechanism configured to move the base tray downstream in the conveyance direction by interlocking with the cover turning from the close position to the open position, and configured to move the base tray upstream in the conveyance direction by interlocking with the cover turning from the open position to the close position; and an auxiliary tray provided movably in the conveyance direction through an engage part formed so as to be in slidable contact with an engaged part formed on the base tray and so as to be able to displace between a storage position where the auxiliary tray is in contact or in adjacent to the upper surface of the cover disposed at the close position and a raising position where the auxiliary tray separates from the upper surface of the cover disposed at the open position; a lifting part provided at either one of the engage part and the engaged part comes into pressure contact with the another one among the engage part and the engaged part and displaces the auxiliary tray from the storage position to the raising position in a process of moving the base tray downstream in the conveyance direction by the interlock mechanism.