Patent ID: 9272865
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: B65H

Claim Text:
1. A sheet transfer device comprising: a sheet transfer unit including a plurality of paired sheet transfer rollers arranged along a sheet transfer route, and configured to transfer a sheet in a sheet transfer direction while nipping the sheet between each of the plurality of paired sheet transfer rollers; and first and second sheet transfer guide plates arranged along the sheet transfer route to face each other and configured to guide the sheet transferred by the sheet transfer unit, wherein the first sheet transfer guide plate includes a first divided sheet guide plate and a second divided sheet guide plate separably connected to each other at a dividing line extending along the sheet transfer direction, the first divided sheet guide plate is configured to be either drawn out or pushed in relative to the second sheet transfer guide plate in a sheet width direction orthogonal to the sheet transfer direction, the first divided sheet guide plate and the second divided sheet guide plate are separable from each other by one of a draw-out operation or a push-in operation of the first divided sheet guide plate, and the first divided sheet guide plate is configured to release nipping of the sheet by the paired sheet transfer rollers corresponding to the first divided sheet guide plate, during one of the draw-out operation or the push-in operation of the first divided sheet guide plate.