Discharged sheet accommodating tray

Abstract

A discharged sheet accommodating tray in which sheets discharged from a discharging section along surfaces of the sheets are successively stacked, includes: a placement surface on which the sheets discharged from the discharging section are placed; and a sheet ride-on portion provided at the placement surface and which sheets being discharged ride on. The sheet ride-on portion can be a convex portion or an inclined plate located in an intermediate central portion of the placement surface, or can be a plurality of convex portions or inclined plates disposed in an intermediate central portion of the placement surface along a direction orthogonal to the sheet discharging direction. Accordingly, sheets which have already been placed on the placement surface have a mountain-shaped configuration at the sheet ride-on portion. When a leading end portion of a sheet which is being discharged passes over a peak portion of the mountain-shaped configuration, a gap is formed between the leading end portion and a sheet which has already been placed, such that close contact of the sheet which has already been placed and the sheet which is being discharged is prevented.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.