Patent ID: 8538313

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a sheet feeder configured to feed a sheet contained in a sheet container; an image forming unit configured to form an image on the sheet fed by the sheet feeder; a conveying path through which the sheet having an image formed by the image forming is conveyed; a reversing unit configured to reverse the sheet conveyed through the conveying path; a reconveyance path which diverges from the conveying path at a diverging point and guides the sheet reversed by the reversing unit toward the image forming unit again; a guiding member which is provided on the diverging portion and swings between a position at which the guiding member allows the sheet conveyed toward the reversing unit to pass through the conveying path and a position at which the guiding member closes the conveying path and guides the sheet conveyed by the reversing unit to the reconveyance path, and an abutting portion which is provided on the guiding member and with which a leading edge of the sheet conveyed by the reversing unit to the reconveyance path contacts for correcting a skew of the sheet.