Sheet supply means for a reproducing apparatus

Claim 1

In a sheet supply device for a cassette-type reproducing apparatus having at least one cassette for housing a stack of copy sheets, the combination comprising: at least one rotatable sheet supply roller mounted on a shaft and disposed for contact with the copy sheets housed in said cassette for feeding said sheets in a forward manner one sheet at a time; at least one corner pawl mounted on said cassette and disposed to engage an edge portion of a copy sheet so as to cause, in cooperation with said sheet supply roller, an upward buckling of a top sheet of said stack at a point between said sheet supply roller and said pawl; and at least one guide roller mounted on said shaft between said sheet supply roller and said pawl, said guide roller having a central aperture which has a larger diameter than said shaft so that said guide roller is loosely mounted on said shaft so as to be movable in a generally radial direction relative to the axis of said shaft and so as to rotatably contact the copy sheets under its dead weight.