Conveying Apparatus And Image Forming Apparatus

Abstract

A conveying apparatus for conveying a flexible sheet along a sheet-convey path including a curved portion. The conveying apparatus includes an outer guide which defines an outer portion of the curved portion of the sheet-convey path. The outer guide includes a guide base including a recessed portion; at least one guide roller including a roller body and a pair of shaft portions that are formed integrally with the roller body; and a curved plate having a first curved guide surface which guides the flexible sheet, and including at least one bearing portion which bears the at least one guide roller such that a portion of the roller body projects inward from the first curved guide surface and the roller body is rotatable about an s of the shaft portions. The recessed portion of the guide base holds the curved plate such that the shaft portions of the at least one guide roller extend in a widthwise direction of the sheet-convey path.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.