Conveyor and image forming apparatus
OwnerNaoki HOSHI, Tomohiro EGAWAinventors
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Abstract
A conveyor includes: a first guide plate including: a first roller shaft; and a first roller having a first hardness and attached to the first roller shaft; and a second guide plate disposed opposite to the first guide plate and including: a second roller shaft; a second roller having a second hardness higher than the first hardness of the first roller and attached to the second roller shaft, wherein parallelism between the first roller shaft and the second roller shaft is variable, and the first guide plate and the second guide plate guide the target, and the first roller and the second roller nips and conveys the target in a conveyance direction.
Claims11
A conveyor comprising:
- a first guide plate including:
- a first roller shaft;
- and
- a first roller having a first hardness and attached to the first roller shaft;
- and
- a second guide plate disposed opposite to the first guide plate and including:
- a second roller shaft;
- and
- a second roller having a second hardness higher than the first hardness of the first roller and attached to the second roller shaft,
- wherein parallelism between the first roller shaft and the second roller shaft is variable, and
- the first guide plate and the second guide plate guide the target, and
- the first roller and the second roller nips and conveys the target in a conveyance direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.