Patent ID: 8616548

Claim:
A sheet conveying device including a conveying section for conveying a sheet and configured to correct obliquity of a sheet conveyed by the conveying section, the sheet conveying device comprising: a contacting portion with which a leading end of the sheet conveyed by the conveying section comes into contact at a waiting position and configured to rotate in a predetermined rotating direction; a rotating portion connected to the contacting portion in such a way as to rotate with the contacting portion and including a concave portion; and a pressing portion configured to press the rotating portion, wherein the pressing portion is engaged with the concave portion of the rotating portion so as to hold the contacting portion at the waiting position, and wherein the contacting portion rotates in the predetermined rotating direction to the waiting position where a next sheet comes into contact with the contacting portion after the leading end of the sheet comes into contact with the contacting portion at the waiting position.