PAPER-FEEDING DEVICE OF PRINTER

摘要

PURPOSE: A paper-feeding device of a printer is provided to double the storage amount of papers by utilizing a non-utilized space formed in a cassette as a paper loading section. CONSTITUTION: A paper-feeding device of a printer is composed of a cassette(200) detachably combined to a printer body(100); a fixing tray(210) installed to the cassette and formed with a first loading section in which papers are loaded; a moving tray(220) installed to the cassette to move to the position overlapped with the fixing tray at the spot contacted with parallel to the fixing tray and formed with a second loading section for loading papers separately from the fixing tray; a pickup roller(110) mounted to the printer body to feed papers loaded in the cassette into the printer body; a placing plate(230) movably mounted to the cassette to lift up the front end of the paper to be supplied into the printer body toward the direction contacted with the pickup roller; a moving device for selectively moving the moving tray to the spot overlapped on the fixing tray at the position contacted parallel to the fixing tray; and a first regulating plate(221) arranged to the front end of the moving tray to divide the first and second loading sections of the fixing and moving trays and movably installed to the moving tray to closely contact to a horizontal surface of the moving tray and be folded.