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US 12,024,383 B2Granted
Sheet guide, sheet conveyor, sheet stacker, and printer
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorIkumi Kazama
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Abstract
A sheet guide includes an endless belt, and a guide supported by a plurality of places of the endless belt, the guide configured to hold a downstream end of the sheet in a conveyance direction of the sheet, wherein the endless belt is configured to rotate to move the sheet held by the guide in the conveyance direction.
Claims20
A sheet guide comprising:
- an endless belt;
- and
- a guide supported at a plurality of places of the endless belt, the guide configured to hold a downstream end of a sheet in a conveyance direction of the sheet, the guide including multiple holding parts configured to fix the guide to the endless belt at the plurality of places,
- wherein at least one of the multiple holding parts is slidably displaceable relative to the guide, a direction of the displacement including only a linear direction relative to the guide in a guide conveyance direction at all positions of the guide along a path of the endless belt, and
- wherein the endless belt is configured to rotate to move the sheet held by the guide in the conveyance direction.
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A sheet stacker comprising:
- an endless belt configured to rotate in a circumferential direction of the endless belt;
- a guide supported at a plurality of places of the endless belt, the guide configured to hold a downstream end of a sheet in a conveyance direction of the sheet along at least the circumferential direction;
- a stack part on which the sheet conveyed by the endless belt is to be stacked;
- and
- multiple holding parts configured to fix the guide at the plurality of places of the endless belt,
- wherein at least one of the multiple holding parts is slidably displaceable relative to the guide, a direction of the displacement including only a linear direction relative to the guide in a guide conveyance direction at all positions of the guide along a path of the endless belt.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.