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US 2003/0193135 A1Published application
Sheet guide device of a guide path intersecting portion and image forming apparatus provided with the same device
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKenji Suzuki
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Abstract
A sheet guide device having a first sheet guide path and a second sheet guide path intersecting with each other for guiding a sheet and a pivotally movable guide member pivotally movably provided on a common downstream side corner of the first sheet guide path and the second sheet guide path in an intersecting portion between the first sheet guide path and the second sheet guide path, wherein the pivotally movable guide member is pushed and pivotally moved by the leading edge portion of the sheet passing the intersecting portion to thereby guide the sheet.
Claims11
A sheet guide device comprising:
- a first sheet guide path and a second sheet guide path intersecting with each other for guiding a sheet;
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- a pivotally movable guide member pivotally movably provided on a common downstream side corner of said first sheet guide path and said second sheet guide path in an intersecting portion between said first sheet guide path and said second sheet guide path,
- wherein said pivotally movable guide member is pushed and pivotally moved by a leading edge of the sheet passing said intersecting portion to thereby guide the sheet.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- image forming means for forming an image on a sheet;
- a first sheet tray for stacking thereon the sheet delivered with the image formed thereon by said image forming means with one side of the sheet facing upwardly;
- a second sheet tray for stacking thereon the sheet delivered with the image formed thereon by said image forming means with the other side of the sheet facing upwardly;
- a duplex transport path for re-feeding the sheet having had the image formed thereon by said image forming means to said image forming means;
- a first sheet transport path leading from a downstream side of said image forming means in a sheet transport direction toward said first sheet tray;
- a second sheet transport path branching off from said first sheet transport path on the downstream side of said image forming means in the sheet transport direction, and leading from said image forming means toward said second sheet tray;
- a transport switching gate provided in a branching-off portion of said second sheet transport path from said first sheet transport path for switching the transport direction of the sheet;
- a surface reverse transport path leading from said second sheet transport path toward said duplex transport path across said first sheet transport path;
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- a transport guide gate pivotally movably provided on a common downstream side corner of said first sheet transport path and said surface reverse transport path in an intersecting portion between said first sheet transport path and said surface reverse transport path,
- wherein said transport guide gate is pushed and pivotally moved by a leading edge of the sheet passing said intersecting portion to thereby guide the sheet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.