PURPOSE: To prevent sheet members from being stained when the sheet members are fed again out of an intermediate tray at the time of a double surface copying mode or a multi-copying mode.

CONSTITUTION: In the device, an accumulation housing section 144 acting as an intermediate tray is so constituted as to be raised up almost vertically, the inclination of the aforesaid section is changed correspondingly when each sheet is housed in, and when each sheet is fed again. The sheets are loaded in order from the upper portion of the intermediate tray, and the sheets are fed in while the upper side of each sheet is being separated by a separation and a feeding means 122 and 123.