Sheet transport apparatus and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShinsuke Kobayashi, Michihito Yamazaki, Yasuzumi Taba
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Abstract
A sheet transport apparatus which includes a sheet transport path for transporting a sheet, and a regulation member. The regulation member is provided in the sheet transport path, and is brought into contact with a swelling portion occurring on a surface of an envelope in the event that the envelope is transported as the sheet, such that the swelling portion can be pressed.
Claims20
A sheet transport apparatus comprising:
- a sheet transport path for transporting a sheet;
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- a regulation member, said regulation member being provided in said sheet transport path, and being brought into contact with a swelling portion occurring on a surface of an envelope to press the swelling portion in the event that the envelope is transported as the sheet.
A sheet transport apparatus comprising:
- a sheet transport path;
- and
- a regulation member, said regulation member being provided in said sheet transport path with being a predetermined distance spaced from an envelope to be transported in the event that the envelope is transported as the sheet.
An image forming apparatus in which after a toner image formed on an image bearing member provided in an image forming portion is transferred to a sheet, the toner image is fixed in a fixing portion, said image forming apparatus comprising:
- sheet feeding means for feeding stored sheets one by one;
- a sheet transport path, said sheet transport path transporting the sheet fed out by said sheet feeding means to said fixing portion;
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- a regulation member, said regulation member being provided in said sheet transport path, and being brought into contact with a swelling portion occurring on a surface of the envelope to press the swelling portion in the event that the envelope is fed out by said sheet feeding means as the sheet.
An image forming apparatus in which after a toner image formed on an image bearing member provided in an image forming portion is transferred to a sheet, the toner image is fixed in a fixing portion, said image forming apparatus comprising:
- a sheet feeding portion, said sheet feeding portion being provided with a rotatable sheet feeding roller provided in contact with an upper surface of stacked sheets;
- a sheet transport path, said sheet transport path being disposed between said sheet feeding portion and said fixing portion;
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- a regulation member, said regulation member being provided in said sheet transport path, and being disposed a predetermined distance spaced from an envelope to be transported in the event that the envelope is fed out by said sheet feeding portion as the sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.