Sheet conveying apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakashi Fujita, Shigeo Doi
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Abstract
The present invention provides a sheet conveying apparatus comprising a sheet feeding device for separating and feeding stacked sheets one by one, a convey guide device for guiding the sheet fed out by the sheet feeding device, a spacing device provided on the guide device and adapted to deviate positions of a trailing end of a preceding sheet and a leading end of a succeeding sheet which is fed continuously to the preceding sheet, a sheet detecting device for detecting the leading end of the succeeding sheet deviated from the trailing end of the preceding sheet by the spacing device.
Claims19
A sheet conveying apparatus comprising:
- a sheet feeding means for separating and feeding stacked sheets one by one;
- a convey guide means for guiding the sheet fed out by said sheet feeding means;
- a spacing means provided on said guide means that deviates positions of a trailing end of a preceding sheet and a leading end of a succeeding sheet which is fed continuously to the preceding sheet;
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- a sheet detecting means for detecting the leading end of the succeeding sheet deviated from the trailing end of the preceding sheet by said spacing means.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a sheet feeding means for separating and feeding stacked sheets one by one;
- a convey guide means for guiding the sheet fed out by said sheet feeding means;
- a spacing means provided on said guide means and that deviates positions of a trailing end of a preceding sheet and a leading end of a succeeding sheet which is fed continuously to the preceding sheet;
- a sheet detecting means for detecting the leading end of the succeeding sheet deviated from the trailing end of the preceding sheet by said spacing means;
- a control means for controlling conveyance of the sheet on the basis of a result from said sheet detecting means;
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- an image forming means for forming an image on the sheet controlled by said control means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.