To provide a paper feeding device capable of performing the switching by simple operation between the paper feeding from a paper feed cassette using one paper feed roller and the paper feeding from a manual feed tray, and to provide an image forming apparatus with the same.
A paper feeding device 20 comprises an actuation member 50 biased upward by a spring member 46 and provided to a manual feed tray 41 in a vertically movable manner. The actuation member 50 includes: a sheet contact part 51 capable of protruding upward from a manual feed placement surface 42a by the spring member 46; and a friction part 52 capable of abutting against a sheet S at the uppermost surface of a paper feed cassette 22. When the sheet S is placed on the manual feed placement surface 42a, the sheet contact part 51 abuts against the sheet S, and the actuation member 50 is moved downward by the own gravity of the sheet S against the biasing force of the spring member 46. Accordingly, the friction part 52 abuts against the sheet S at the uppermost surface of the paper feed cassette 22.
Inoue On
Nobuyuki Nishida
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