Sheet conveying device and image forming apparatus incorporating the sheet conveying device
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorTomonori Tamura
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Abstract
A sheet conveying device includes a tray, a conveyor, and a guide body. The tray is configured to stack a sheet. The conveyor is configured to convey the sheet to the tray. The guide body has a space, a height of the space being greater than a thickness of the sheet. The guide body is configured to guide the sheet conveyed by the conveyor, with a leading end of the sheet being inserted in the space. The guide body is configured to separate the sheet from the space, according to a difference of a sheet conveying speed of the conveyor and a moving speed of the guide body, and to stack the sheet on the tray.
Claims11
A sheet conveying device comprising:
- a tray configured to stack a sheet;
- a conveyor configured to convey the sheet to the tray;
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- a guide body having a space, a height of the space being greater than a thickness of the sheet,
- the guide body configured to guide the sheet conveyed by the conveyor, with a leading end of the sheet being inserted in the space,
- the guide body configured to separate the sheet from the space, according to a difference of a sheet conveying speed of the conveyor and a moving speed of the guide body, and to stack the sheet on the tray.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.