SHEET CONVEYANCE APPARARUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20230356969A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-09

    申请号:US18248408

    申请日:2021-10-06

    IPC分类号: B65H5/06 B65H5/36

    摘要: A sheet conveyance apparatus (26) includes: a first conveyance unit (70a), a second conveyance unit (70b) disposed below the first conveyance unit (70a) and including a second upper conveyance guide (75) and a second lower conveyance guide (77), and an apparatus main body, wherein the second conveyance unit (70b) can be drawn out to a front side of the apparatus main body along a front-and-rear direction perpendicular to a sheet conveyance direction, the second upper conveyance guide (75) includes: a guide main body part (75b) turnable upward and downward with respect to the apparatus main body with a rear end edge as a turning support shaft and a front end edge as a turning end; and a movable guide part (75c) coupled to the turning end of the guide main body part (75b) via a hinge part (75d) in a turnable manner.

    SHEET CONVEYING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM THEREWITH

    公开(公告)号:US20210284478A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-16

    申请号:US17197299

    申请日:2021-03-10

    IPC分类号: B65H31/24 B65H29/14 B65H37/04

    摘要: A sheet conveying device includes a sheet conveying passage, an upper conveying guide provided in the sheet conveying passage and facing the upper surface of a sheet, a lower conveying guide facing the lower surface of the sheet, a conveying member conveying the sheet along the sheet conveying passage, a sheet stack tray arranged above the upper conveying guide. The upper conveying guide is swingable up and down, with one end part of it in the sheet conveying direction or in the sheet width direction perpendicular to the sheet conveying direction serving as a pivot shaft. The sheet stack tray has a movable part making contact with the upper conveying guide at least when it swings, and the movable part is movable between a sheet receiving position where it forms a sheet stack surface and a retracted position where it has swung upward from the sheet receiving position.