Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus comprising:

• a holding body comprising a belt configured to hold a formed image;
• a conveyance unit comprising a gripping portion including a gripper configured to convey a recording medium with a leading end of the recording medium gripped by the gripping portion;
• and
• a transfer body including a recessed portion that accommodates the gripping portion and is provided along a direction substantially orthogonal to a rotational direction, configured to sandwich the recording medium conveyed by the conveyance unit between the transfer body and the holding body to transfer an image on the holding body to the recording medium conveyed by the conveyance unit, and including a slope surface provided at a leading end of a portion of an outer circumference not including a portion where the recessed portion is provided, the leading end being on a front end side in the rotational direction, a distance from the slope surface to a rotational center becoming larger toward upstream side in the rotational direction,
• wherein a second angle is smaller than a first angle, the first angle being an angle between the gripping surface with which the gripping portion grips the recording medium and a plane orthogonally intersecting, at a leading end of the gripping portion, a line extending from the leading end of the gripping portion toward the rotational center of the transfer body, the second angle being an angle between the slope surface and a plane orthogonally intersecting, at a leading end of the slope surface, a line extending from the leading end of the slope surface toward the rotational center of the transfer body.