Transportation device and image forming apparatus

Abstract

A transportation device includes a transportation member that transports a medium in a transportation direction, a reciprocating mechanism that reciprocates in the transportation direction and that moves at a speed lower than a transportation speed of the medium transported by the transportation member in a case where the reciprocating mechanism moves to a downstream side, an abutting member that is supported by the reciprocating mechanism and that is switchable between an abutment position at which the medium abuts against the abutting member on a transportation path of the medium and a withdrawal position to which the abutting member withdraws from the transportation path by rotating around an axis after the abutting member passes through a predetermined first position, and a restricting member that restricts the abutting member from rotating to a withdrawal position side until the abutting member passes through the first position.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.