Patent ID: 9609159
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: B65H,H04N

Claim:
1. A sheet conveyance device comprising: a sheet mount on which a sheet is mountable; a first conveyor to convey the sheet along a conveyance path from the sheet mount in a forward and then reverse direction to pass the sheet through an operation position, and to eject the sheet into a sheet ejection area; and a second conveyor to convey a relatively hard sheet, with a relatively higher bending rigidity than the sheet, along a relatively straight path passing through the operation position, and to eject the relatively hard sheet at an area other than the sheet ejection area, wherein the sheet mount includes a hard sheet ejection port to pass at least a leading edge portion of the relatively hard sheet to be ejected from the second conveyor in a sheet ejection direction, and wherein the hard sheet ejection port includes an opening width that is relatively smaller than a width of a sheet mounted on the sheet mount along a line of intersection between an extension of the plane in the sheet ejection direction and a sheet mount surface of the sheet mount.