| 摘要 |
<p>PURPOSE:To enhance maintenance performance and operability of paper replenishment by providing a vertically movable loading member under a paper feed roller, for placing a tip of a paper sheet into a set state ready for paper feeding, and providing a claw member abutting on a tip upper surface of the paper sheet for separating the paper sheet. CONSTITUTION:When a paper stack is set on a paper feed tray 2, a finger push lever of a pressing down member 8 is operated to press down a loading member 5 against a compression coil spring 6 so as to prepare a void V for setting paper between the loading member 5 and a claw member 7. In this state, the paper stack is inserted into the void V through a paper feed opening 1b, and then the pressing down of the loading member 5 by the pressing down member 8 is released to push up the loading member 5 by the compression coil spring 6 so that paper sheets P are energized upward and brought into a state ready for paper feeding. When a nearly semicircular paper feed roller 3 is then rotated, an uppermost paper sheet is separated by the claw member 7 to be delivered leftward.</p> |
