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US 8,752,837 B2Granted
Sheet storage device and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsToshiyuki Iwata, Daisaku Kamiya, Hideki Kushida, Naoto Tokuma, Toshiki Momoka
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Abstract
A sheet storage device is equipped with sheet storage portions which are provided in an upper portion of a copying machine body and receive sheets, conveyed in sequence from the copying machine body, from downward and store the sheets in such a state that the sheets stand. The sheet storage portions are relatively rotatably supported in sequence and parallel. Each sheet storage portion receiving the sheet from the copying machine body is rotated to be held in the rotational position.
Claims12
A sheet storage device comprising:
- a sheet conveying portion which conveys a sheet;
- and
- a plurality of sheet storage portions which receive the sheet conveyed from below to above and stores the received sheet in a vertical state,
- the sheet storage portions each having
- a storage guide portion provided in a vertical state which guides the sheet conveyed by the sheet conveying portion from below to above;
- a holding portion which holds a sheet in cooperation with a guide surface of the storage guide portion so as to allow movement in a sheet conveying direction of the sheet and so as to restrict movement of the sheet in a direction opposite to the sheet conveying direction;
- a supporting portion which rotatably supports the sheet storage portion around an axis arranged in a perpendicular direction to the guide surface of the storage guide portion;
- and
- a driving unit which rotates the sheet storage portion around the axis.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming portion which forms an image;
- a sheet conveying portion which conveys a sheet formed with an image;
- and
- a plurality of sheet storage portions which receive the sheet conveyed from below to above and stores the received sheet in a vertical state,
- the sheet storage portions each having
- a storage guide portion provided in a vertical state which guides the sheet conveyed by the sheet conveying portion from below to above;
- a holding portion which holds a sheet in cooperation with a guide surface of the storage guide portion so as to allow movement in a sheet conveying direction of the sheet and so as to restrict movement of the sheet in a direction opposite to the sheet conveying direction;
- a supporting portion which rotatably supports the sheet storage portion around an axis arranged in a perpendicular direction to the guide surface of the storage guide portion;
- and
- a driving unit which rotates the sheet storage portion around the axis.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.