Image forming apparatus including discharged-sheet receiving tray covered with frame
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorRyusei Kominato
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus has an image forming device for forming an image on a sheet, a discharged-sheet receiving device provided at an upper part of a casing including the image forming device, for receiving the sheet with an image formed thereon after being discharged, and a receiving frame for receiving the casing including the image forming device, the receiving frame being provided with a guide unit for guiding the sheet received in the discharged-sheet receiving device. The guide unit guides the sheet received in the discharged-sheet receiving device to be removed so that the sheet does not interfere with the receiving frame when the sheet is removed.
Claims13
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- image forming means for forming an image on a sheet;
- a casing containing said image forming means;
- a discharged-sheet receiving device provided at an upper part of the casing, for receiving the sheet after being discharged by the image forming means with an image formed thereon;
- and
- a receiving frame for receiving the casing including the image forming means, the receiving frame being provided with guide means for guiding removal of the sheet received in the discharged-sheet receiving device,
- wherein the guide means is positioned in the receiving frame in a manner such that the guide means includes a guide surface contactable with the sheet which is removed, so as to guide a leading end of the sheet to slide downwardly on the guide surface when the sheet is removed from the discharged-sheet receiving device.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a casing;
- image forming means for forming an image on a sheet, said casing containing the image forming means;
- sheet-receiving means, provided at an upper face of said casing, for receiving the sheet on which an image is formed by the image forming means;
- a receiving frame for receiving the casing, the receiving frame enclosing the casing at the upper face and a side face of the casing;
- a reading device mounted on upper frame members of the receiving frame, the upper frame members enclosing the upper face of the casing;
- and
- inclined guide means provided downstream in a sheet-discharge direction of said sheet-receiving means, for guiding a sheet stack received in the sheet-receiving means so that the sheet stack does not interfere with the upper frame members.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.