<p>A sheet feeding apparatus for intermittently feeding sheets by one into printing equipment. The apparatus comprises a sheet pickup roller (4) fixed to a rotatable drive shaft (12), a pair of cylindrical rollers (7) rotatably and coaxially coupled to the drive shaft and disposed at both sides of the sheet pickup roller, and a pad (6) biased by a spring (5) to be pressed against the sheet pickup roller and the cylindrical rollers. The sheet pickup roller has a cross section comprising an arc portion and a chord portion to substantially form a semicylindrical configuration. Also included in the apparatus is a projection provided at the chord portion of the sheet pickup roller. The projection is arranged to come into contact with the sheet over a range from a contact point between the sheet pickup roller and the pad to one end portion of the arc portion which acts as a leading portion at which the sheet pickup roller initially comes into contact with the sheet when rotating in a predetermined direction. <IMAGE></p>
