Sheet feeding apparatus

摘要

A sheet feeding apparatus has a pair of suction cups for attracting an uppermost one of stacked sheets, the suction cups being spaced from each other in a direction across the direction in which the sheet attracted by the suction cups is fed, a swinging mechanism for swinging the suction cups toward each other while the suction cups are attracting the sheet, and a flexing mechanism for forcibly flexing a portion of the sheet between the suction cups toward a next one of the stacked sheets when the suction cups are swung toward each other by the swinging mechanism.