| 摘要 |
Disclosed is a sheet supplying apparatus including first and second stacking means and contrived to prevent the apparatus from being upsized and to reduce a manufacturing cost by employing one sheet supplying/separating mechanism in common. The sheet supplying apparatus has a first stacking means including a first stacking portion stacked with a sheet, a second stacking means installable in an attachable/detachable manner to and from the first stacking means on an upper side of the first stacking portion, and a separating/supplying means used in common to the first and second stacking means, for separating and supplying the stacked sheets. The second stacking means includes a base member for installing in the first stacking means, and a second stacking portion movably incorporated into the base member. The second stacking portion is so constructed as to be possible of advancing and retreating. In a retreat position where the second stacking portion retreats, the sheet can be supplied from the first stacking portion, and, in a possible-of-supplying position where the second stacking portion advances, the sheet can be supplied from the second stacking portion.
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