US 2011/0215523 A1 · SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

Abstract

With representative configurations of the sheet processing apparatus and the image forming apparatus according to the present invention, the sheet processing apparatus which includes an intermediate stacking portion in which a sheet is temporarily placed, an aligning portion which supports a part of a lower surface of the sheet stacked in the intermediate stacking portion and which presses a lateral surface end portion of a sheet width direction to align the sheet, and a stapler which processes the sheet aligned by the aligning portion, includes a sheet supporting member which can support the lower surface of the sheet conveyed while sheet stacked in the intermediate stacking portion is processed and a sheet discharging member which presses the rear end of the sheet processed by the stapler and discharges the sheet to the stack tray.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A sheet processing apparatus comprising:

a conveying portion which conveys a sheet;
a first stacking portion on which the sheet conveyed by the conveying portion is stacked;
a processing portion which processes sheets stacked on the first stacking portion;
a sheet discharging portion which includes a sheet discharging member which presses an upstream end of the sheets, processed by the processing portion, in a sheet conveying direction to discharge the sheets to a second stacking portion,
wherein the sheet discharging portion includes a sheet supporting member, movable in the sheet conveying direction, which can support a lower surface of the sheet conveyed by the conveying portion while the sheets stacked on the first stacking portion is processed by the processing portion.

2 more elements

An image forming apparatus comprising:

an image forming portion which forms an image on a sheet;
and
the sheet processing apparatus which processes sheets on which an image is formed by the image forming portion,
the sheet processing apparatus includes:
a conveying portion which conveys a sheet;
a first stacking portion on which the sheet conveyed by the conveying portion is stacked;
a processing portion which processes sheets stacked on the first stacking portion;
a sheet discharging portion which includes a sheet discharging member which presses an upstream end of the sheets, processed by the processing portion, in a sheet conveying direction to discharge the sheets to a second stacking portion,
wherein the sheet discharging portion includes a sheet supporting member, movable in the sheet conveying direction, which can support a lower surface of the sheet conveyed by the conveying portion while the sheets stacked on the first stacking portion is processed by the processing portion.

6 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus

Life of this patent

Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus

Life of this patent

Abstract

Claims12