| 摘要 |
<p>A feeding device in accordance with the present invention comprises a lateral feed position sensor (HP1) for detecting that a rotatable cassette is placed in a lateral feed position, a longitudinal feed position sensor (HP2) for detecting that a rotatable cassette (32) is placed in a longitudinal feed position and a control device for controlling a cassette rotating motor based on the input coming from the lateral feed position sensor or the longitudinal feed position sensor, such that the longitudinal or lateral feed position of the rotatable cassette and the longitudinal or lateral feed position of a fixed cassette differ, whereby a situation where the rotatable cassette and the fixed cassette that contain copy paper sheets of the same size, are placed in the same longitudinal or lateral feed position, can be avoided and the time needed for feeding the required amount of copy paper sheets in the apparatus the feeding device is attached to, may be shortened. A feeding device in accordance with the present invention comprises in addition to the above arrangement, a rotation prohibition input device (52) for inputting to the control device an instruction prohibiting the rotation of the rotatable cassette, and is arranged such that the control device cancels the control to the cassette rotating motor in response to the input coming from the rotation prohibition input device. As a result, the time needed for feeding the required amount of copy paper sheets in the apparatus the feeding device is attached to may be shortened, and in addition for example when the rotatable cassette and the fixed cassette contain copy paper sheets of the same size and are placed in the same longitudinal or lateral feed position, a large amount of copy paper sheets can be supplied continuously when necessary.</p> |
