Patent ID: 9169101
Filing Date: 2015-10-27
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: a housing with a standing wall; an image forming unit which is arranged in the housing and forms an image on a sheet; a first discharge opening and a second discharge opening above the first discharge opening, which are arranged on the standing wall while being vertically spaced apart and through which the sheet having the image formed thereon is selectively discharged from the interior of the housing; a sheet discharge portion which is connected to the standing wall at a position below the first discharge opening and on which the sheet discharged through the first discharge opening is to be placed; a restricting member which stands up on a downstream side of the sheet discharge portion in a discharging direction of the sheet and which comes into contact with a downstream end edge of the sheet discharged to the sheet discharge portion in the discharging direction; a sheet discharge tray which includes a first fixing portion to be fixed to the standing wall and a second fixing portion to be fixed to an upper end part of the restricting member and is attachable above the sheet discharge portion and on which a sheet discharged through the second discharge opening is to be placed; an air inlet arranged at a rear end side of the standing wall in an attaching direction of the sheet discharge tray to the housing; an air outlet formed on the standing wall and extending toward a leading end side in the attaching direction below a rear end side of the sheet discharge tray in the attaching direction; and an airflow generator arranged in the standing wall and discharging from the air outlet air that has been sucked through the air inlet, wherein the sheet discharge portion includes a recess at a downstream side in the discharging direction; and a state of the restricting member is changed between a first position where the restricting member stands up from the sheet discharge portion and fixes the sheet discharge tray and a second position where the restricting member is accommodated in the recess.