MEDIUM FEEDING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

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MEDIUM FEEDING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18586667 titled 'MEDIUM FEEDING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

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A medium feeding device includes: a supplier that causes multiple loaded recording media to levitate and be separated from each other by supplying air to the recording media from an edge of the recording media; a feeding unit that feeds, in a feeding direction, an uppermost one of the recording media separated by the supplier; a contact section that comes into contact with a lateral edge of the multiple recording media from a lateral side of the multiple recording media; a projection unit that is provided at the contact section and onto which an image of the lateral edge of the multiple recording media is projected in the feeding direction; and an image capturing unit that is disposed in the feeding direction relative to the multiple recording media and that captures the image projected on the projection unit in a state where the multiple recording media are supplied with the air from the supplier.