Sheet conveying apparatus
AssigneeCanon Finetech Nisca Inc.
InventorsTsukasa Kondo, Tetsuya Kawasaki, Yuuki Kubota, Toshiyuki Iwata
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Abstract
To provide a configuration for allowing a user to easily take out a sheet stopped on a conveying belt. Regulating guides are disposed on both sides of a conveying belt in a sheet width direction Y and can guide both end edges in the sheet width direction of a sheet S being conveyed while being nipped by the conveying belt and the balls. A take-out port is provided on a side close to the regulating guide in the sheet width direction and serves as an opening for taking out the sheet stopped on the conveying belt. The regulating guide on a side away from the take-out port moves in the sheet width direction Y toward the take-out port when the sheet is stopped on the conveying belt.
Claims5
A sheet conveying apparatus that receives and conveys a sheet conveyed by a conveying member for conveying a sheet in a predetermined conveying direction, comprising:
- an endless conveying belt that is provided downstream of the conveying member in the conveying direction, the belt having a conveying surface extending in the conveying direction and conveying the sheet passed to the conveying surface in the conveying direction;
- a plurality balls that is disposed so as to face the conveying surface and configured to be rotatable in any direction while nipping the sheet with the conveying surface;
- a regulating guide that is provided on one side of the conveying belt in a sheet width direction crossing the conveying direction and guides one end edge in the sheet width direction of the sheet being conveyed while being nipped by the conveying belt and the balls;
- a take-out port for taking out the sheet stopped on the conveying belt, the take-out port being provided on the side opposite to the regulating guide in the sheet width direction;
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- a guide moving unit that moves the regulating guide in the sheet width direction, wherein
- when the sheet is stopped on the conveying belt, the guide moving unit moves the regulating guide in the sheet width direction toward the take-out port.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.