Sheet finishing apparatus and image forming apparatus
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshiaki SUGIZAKI
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Abstract
A sheet finishing apparatus includes an outer wall having a discharge port of a sheet, a movable tray that stacks the sheet discharged from the discharge port, moves vertically along the outer surface of the outer wall according to a stack amount of the sheet, and has a stacking surface inclined to cause a position of a trailing edge of a sheet to become lower than a position of a leading edge of the sheet, and a support member that is provided at a position outside the outer surface of the outer wall, contacts the trailing edge of the sheet stacked on the movable tray to hold the sheet, and removes static electricity from the sheet.
Claims20
A sheet finishing apparatus comprising:
- an outer wall having a discharge port of a sheet;
- a movable tray that stacks the sheet discharged from the discharge port, moves vertically along the outer surface of the outer wall according to a stack amount of the sheet, and has a stacking surface inclined to cause a position of a trailing edge of a sheet to become lower than a position of a leading edge of the sheet;
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- a support member that is provided at a position outside the outer surface of the outer wall, contacts the trailing edge of the sheet stacked on the movable tray to hold the sheet, and removes static electricity from the sheet.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a scanner to read a document;
- a printer to print image data of the document read by the scanner to a sheet;
- an outer wall having a discharge port for discharging the sheet printed by the printer;
- a movable tray that stacks the sheet discharged from the discharge port, moves vertically along the outer surface of the outer wall according to a stack amount of the sheet, and has a stacking surface inclined to cause a position of a trailing edge of a sheet to become lower than a position of a leading edge of the sheet;
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- a support member that is provided at a position outside the outer surface of the outer wall, contacts the trailing edge of the sheet stacked on the movable tray to hold the sheet, and removes static electricity from the sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.