Sheet post-processing apparatus and image forming system including same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9656826-B2
Application number	US-201615193919-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 27, 2016
Priority date	Jul 2, 2015
Publication date	May 23, 2017
Grant date	May 23, 2017

Abstract

A sheet post-processing apparatus includes a processing tray, a shift member, a discharge tray, a discharge roller pair, and a pressing member. The shift member moves a sheet loaded on the processing tray in a sheet width direction. The discharge roller pair discharges a sheet on the processing tray onto the discharge tray. The pressing member presses down a sheet discharged onto the discharge tray. The pressing member has an arm portion which rotates in the sheet conveyance direction about a rotation fulcrum, and a roller which is attached to the arm portion to be rotatable in the sheet width direction, and the pressing member is selectively disposed in a first position where the roller presses down the upstream-side end part of a sheet discharged onto the discharge tray, or in a second position where the roller contacts a lower surface of a sheet on the processing tray.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A sheet post-processing apparatus comprising:
a processing tray on which a sheet is loaded;
a shift member which moves a sheet placed on the processing tray in a sheet width direction which is orthogonal to a sheet conveyance direction;
a discharge tray which is disposed on a downstream side of the processing tray in the sheet conveyance direction;
a discharge roller pair which discharges a sheet on the processing tray onto the discharge tray; and
a pressing member which presses down an upstream-side end part of a sheet discharged onto the discharge tray,
wherein
the pressing member has
an arm portion which rotates in the sheet conveyance direction about a rotation fulcrum,
a roller which is attached to the arm portion to be rotatable in the sheet width direction, and
means for rotating about the rotation fulcrum the pressing member such that the pressing member is selectively disposed in a first position in which the roller presses down an upstream-side end part of a sheet discharged onto the discharge tray, or in a second position in which the roller contacts a lower surface of a sheet on the processing tray.

2. The sheet post-processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein
in a state where the pressing member is disposed in the second position, the roller projects outward from a circumferential surface of a lower discharge roller which constitutes the discharge roller pair.

3. The sheet post-processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein
when the sheet is loaded on the processing tray, the pressing member is disposed in the first position, and
when the sheet is moved in the sheet width direction on the processing tray, the pressing member is disposed in the second position.

4. The sheet post-processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein
a downstream-side part of the roller with respect to the sheet conveyance direction is formed with a larger diameter than an upstream-side part of the roller.

5. The sheet post-processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein
in a state where the pressing member is arranged in the second position, the roller is disposed adjacent to the discharge roller pair in the sheet width direction.

6. The sheet post-processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
when the sheet is discharged from the processing tray onto the discharge tray, the pressing member is disposed in the first position.

7. An image forming system comprising:
the sheet post-processing apparatus according to claim 1 ; and
an image forming apparatus which is connected to the sheet post-processing apparatus, and which forms an image on a sheet and conveys a sheet on which an image has been formed to the sheet post-processing apparatus.

Assignees

• Kyocera Document Solutions Inc

Inventors

• Miyazaki Masahiko
• Asakawa Yoshiyuki
• Kawamoto Masuo

Classifications

• B65H2301/4212

  of articles substantially horizontal · CPC title

• B65H2404/693

  Retractable guiding means, i.e. between guiding and non guiding position · CPC title

• B65H31/26 Primary

  Auxiliary devices for retaining articles in the pile · CPC title

• B65H2801/06

  Office-type machines, e.g. photocopiers · CPC title

• B65H33/08

  Displacing whole batches, e.g. forming stepped piles · CPC title