An apparatus for manually sending a sheet of paper to a sheet feed roller (28) of sheet feeding mechanism of a copying machine equipped with a sheet cassette (3) for automatically sending sheets of paper to the sheet feeding mechanism. The sheet sending apparatus is composed of an upper chute (5) and a lower chute (6) articulated by gears. When the apparatus is used, the chutes (5, 6) are lying substantially in the same plane to smoothly pass a sheet to the feed roller (28) and the lower chute (6) presses down the stacked sheets of the sheet cassette. When the apparatus is not used, the chutes rotate and the lower chute (6) leaves the feed roller (28).