Sheet guide device and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKenji Suzuki
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Abstract
A sheet guide device, which includes: a branch-off sheet guide path that is branched off from a sheet guide path that guides a sheet; a guide member that is rotatably disposed in a branch-off portion of the branch-off sheet guide path and selectively guides the sheet to respective sheet guide paths that are branched off in the branch-off sheet guide path; and a guide rotary member that is located in the branch-off portion and capable of rotating in a sheet transport direction, in which a rotational surface of the guide rotary member is protruded from a sheet guide surface of the guide member which guides the sheet.
Claims13
A sheet guide device comprising:
- a branch-off sheet guide path that is branched off from a sheet guide path that guides a sheet;
- a guide member that is rotatably disposed in a branch-off portion of the branch-off sheet guide path and selectively guides the sheet to respective sheet guide paths that are branched off in the branch-off sheet guide path;
- and
- a guide rotary member that is located in the branch-off portion and rotatable in a sheet transport direction,
- wherein a rotational surface of the guide rotary member is protruded from a sheet guide surface of the guide member which guides the sheet.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a branch-off sheet guide path that is branched off from a sheet guide path that guides a sheet;
- a guide member that is rotatably disposed in a branch-off portion of the branch-off sheet guide path and selectively guides the sheet to respective sheet guide paths that are branched off in the branch-off sheet guide path;
- and
- a guide rotary member that is located in the branch-off portion and rotatable in a sheet transport direction,
- wherein a rotational surface of the guide rotary member is protruded from a sheet guide surface of the guide member which guides the sheet.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- image forming means for forming a toner image on a sheet;
- fixing means for fixing the toner image to the sheet on which the toner image has been formed by the image forming means;
- a branch-off sheet guide path that is branched off from a sheet guide path that guides the sheet on a downstream side of the fixing means;
- a guide member that is rotatably disposed in a branch-off portion of the branch-off sheet guide path and selectively guides the sheet to respective sheet guide paths that are branched off in the branch-off sheet guide path;
- and
- a guide rotary member that is located in the branch-off portion and rotatable in a sheet transport direction,
- wherein a rotational surface of the guide rotary member is protruded from a sheet guide surface of the guide member which guides the sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.