Patent ID: 8550455
Filing Date: 2013-10-08
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus having a discharge space provided between a main body and an image reading device disposed above the main body, the image forming apparatus comprising: a discharge portion configured to discharge a sheet into the discharge space; a sheet pressing member, provided downstream of the discharge portion in the sheet discharge direction, movable in a vertical direction, and configured to press the sheet from above; and a discharge tray, provided at a bottom of the discharge space, on which a discharged sheet is stacked, and which has a convex-shaped stacking surface, the convex-shaped stacking surface provided with an apex portion as a fulcrum at which the sheet is bent downward by abutting with a bottom surface of the image reading device at a downstream position in the sheet discharge direction from the apex portion while the sheet pressing member is pressing the sheet at an upstream position in the sheet discharge direction from the apex portion so as to restrain a curl of the sheet that both ends of the sheet parallel to the sheet discharge direction are turned up.