Sheet supply apparatus

摘要

The present invention provides a sheet supply apparatus comprising a sheet supporting means for supporting a plurality of sheets, a sheet supply means for feeding out the sheets supported by the sheet supporting means, and a separation means which can be elastically flexed to change an inclination angle thereof when the separation means is urged by a sheet fed out by the sheet supply means for separating the sheet which rides over the separation means from the other sheets. Wherein the separation means is disposed in an inclined condition so that a tip end of an abutment surface, against which the sheets are to be urged and over which the sheet rides, of the separation means before flexed is inclined with respect to a normal plane perpendicular to a sheet feeding direction by a predetermined angle toward the sheet supporting means. <MATH>