Patent ID: 8967615
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: B65H,G03G

Abstract:
1. A recording material transporting device comprising: a transport path for transporting a recording material, the recording material having a first side, a second side, a front side, and a back side, the second side being positioned opposite to the first side, the front side intersecting the first side, the back side being positioned opposite to the front side; a first transporting section provided at the transport path, the first transporting section including a driving rotating member and a driven rotating member, the first transporting section nipping the recording material, and transporting the recording material in a first direction in which the front side of the recording material is a leading side; a second transporting section provided at the transport path, the second transporting section including a driving rotating member and a driven rotating member, the second transporting section nipping the recording material that is transported by the first transporting section, and transporting the recording material in a second direction in which the first side of the recording material is a leading side; wherein the driven rotating member of the second transporting section has a tapered portion at an upstream side in the first direction, a diameter of the tapered portion increasing in the first direction, wherein an end portion of the driving rotating member of the second transporting section disposed on an upstream side of the driving rotating member of the second transporting section along the first direction is provided upstream in the first direction as compared to an end portion of the tapered portion of the driven rotating member of the second transporting section disposed on a downstream side of the tapered portion of the driven rotating member of the second transporting section along the first direction, and wherein a gap between the driving rotating member of the second transporting section and the driven rotating member of the second transporting section is decreasing in the first direction.