Abstract:
An automatic sheet feeding apparatus has a plurality of sheet supporting means adapted to stack and support sheets and to be arranged laterally side by side below in an image forming device, sheet feeding rollers for feeding out the respective sheets supported by the sheet supporting device, and a guide for supporting the sheet supporting device so that the sheet supporting device can be retracted in a direction intersecting a sheet feeding direction from the sheet feeding device.
Abstract:
An automatic original feeding apparatus has a coordinates position detecting device provided with a supporting table for supporting thereon a sheet original of which the area during image formation is to be designated, a conveying device for directing the inserted sheet original to a predetermined position, and a feed device provided upstream of the conveying device and responsive to the termination of the area designation to change over to a feeding position and feed the sheet original on the supporting table to the conveying device.