Patent ID: 7384038
Filing Date: 2008-06-10
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. A sheet transport device comprising: a sheet tray on which a sheet to be transferred is placed; a device main body provided with a transport path led from the sheet tray to a discharge outlet; a transport mechanism for transporting the sheet from the sheet tray to the discharge outlet via the transport path; shafts projecting from positions in the vicinity of opposite ends of the discharge outlet of the device main body to horizontal directions opposite to each other; a discharge tray having a main tray which retains the discharged sheet and is provided with bearings for the shafts, the discharge tray being capable of changing its posture between a bending posture for bending the main tray toward the device main body when the bearings are fitted to the shafts and a retention posture for retaining the sheet discharged from the discharge outlet with the main tray being projected from the device main body as well as being capable of elastic deformation so as to move the bearings toward front ends of the shafts; and locking members provided in the vicinity of the shafts of the device main body in such a fashion as to restrain the bearings of the discharge tray in the bending posture from moving toward the front ends of the shafts by locking the bearings and as to allow the bearings of the discharge tray in the retention posture to move toward the front ends of the shafts.