Patent ID: 8459639

Claim:
A sheet conveyor device comprising: a conveyor unit configured to convey a sheet one by one along a predetermined conveying path; a sheet holder disposed at a downstream end of the conveying path in a conveying direction and configured to hold one or more sheets discharged from the conveyor unit in a stack; a sheet pressing unit configured to: move between a first position and a third position via a second position, wherein the third position is above the first position; contact an uppermost sheet in the stack, from above; and rise in an upward direction that approaches the third position as the number of sheets in the stack increases; and a first urging member configured to: not apply an urging force to the sheet pressing unit when the sheet pressing unit is positioned between the first position and the second position; and apply an urging force to the sheet pressing unit to urge the sheet pressing unit toward the first position when the sheet pressing unit is positioned between the second position and the third position.