Patent ID: 9199817
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: B65H,G03G

Abstract:
1. A medium discharging apparatus comprising: a stacker that receives a medium thereon; a discharging mechanism configured to discharge the medium onto the stacker, the discharging mechanism including a first rotatable body and a second rotatable body disposed such that the second rotatable body is under the first rotatable body and the second rotatable body abuts the first rotatable body, so that the discharging mechanism discharges the medium in a first direction; a plurality of pressing members, each pressing member being swingable about a swing center thereof, the plurality of pressing members being disposed in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, the swing center lying in a space bounded by: wherein after a leading end of the medium leaves the area, the leading end of the medium first comes into contact with the pressing members, each of the pressing members exerts a gravity force thereof on the medium downward toward the stacker while swinging, wherein the pressing members generally extend to traverse a path in which the medium is discharged, before the medium is discharged by the discharging mechanism, wherein each of the pressing members includes a free end on a side of the pressing member opposite the swing center, and a flat surface which extends away from a vicinity of the swing center substantially toward the free end, and is swingable about the swing center so that the free end moves further away from the first imaginary plane as the pressing members swing, and wherein a downstream portion of each of the flat surfaces with respect to the first direction is movable upward above the first imaginary plane.