Sheet conveying device
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYasuhiro Sakai
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, a sheet conveying device includes a tray and a correcting member. On the tray, a sheet bundle in which a plurality of sheets are overlapped is stacked in a thickness direction of the sheet bundle. The correcting member moves relative to the tray in the thickness direction. The correcting member abuts against an upper layer portion of an outer peripheral portion of the sheet bundle on the tray, and presses the upper layer portion from an outside after abutting. The correcting member corrects a position of the upper layer portion in a lateral direction intersecting the thickness direction toward an inside from the outside of the sheet bundle.
Claims17
A sheet conveying device, comprising:
- a tray for stacking a sheet bundle in which a plurality of sheets are overlapped in a thickness direction of the sheet bundle;
- and
- a correcting member that
- moves relative to the tray in the thickness direction,
- abuts against an upper layer portion of an outer peripheral portion of the sheet bundle on the tray,
- presses the upper layer portion from an outside of the sheet bundle after abutting,
- corrects a position of the upper layer portion in a lateral direction intersecting the thickness direction toward an inside from the outside of the sheet bundle;
- and
- a guide member on an opposite side of the correcting member across the sheet bundle and abuts against the outer peripheral portion of the sheet bundle in the opposite direction of the lateral direction.
A sheet conveying method, comprising:
- moving a correcting member relative to a tray for stacking a sheet bundle in which a plurality of sheets are overlapped in a thickness direction of the sheet bundle in the thickness direction;
- abutting the correcting member against an upper layer portion of an outer peripheral portion of the sheet bundle on the tray;
- pressing the upper layer portion from an outside of the sheet bundle by the correcting member;
- correcting a position of the upper layer portion in a lateral direction intersecting the thickness direction toward an inside from the outside of the sheet bundle;
- and
- biasing the correcting member in the lateral direction.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- an image forming component;
- and
- a sheet conveying device, comprising:
- a tray for stacking a sheet bundle in which a plurality of sheets are overlapped in a thickness direction of the sheet bundle;
- and
- a correcting member that
- moves relative to the tray in the thickness direction,
- abuts against an upper layer portion of an outer peripheral portion of the sheet bundle on the tray,
- presses the upper layer portion from an outside of the sheet bundle after abutting, and
- corrects a position of the upper layer portion in a lateral direction intersecting the thickness direction toward an inside from the outside of the sheet bundle, wherein
- the correcting member comprises a first pressing component and a second pressing component in this order from the tray in the thickness direction,
- the first pressing component is gradually inclined in the lateral direction as approaching the second pressing component in the thickness direction from an end portion toward the tray, and
- the second pressing component is connected to the end portion of the first pressing component in the lateral direction and extends in the thickness direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.