Patent ID: 8544845

Claim:
A sheet storage and discharge device, comprising: a reel on which a tape is taken up; a drum for taking up the tape together with a sheet; a deflection roller disposed between the reel and the drum and deflecting the tape towards the drum; and a guide that has a face on a drum side thereof, the face being sloped at an angle to a tape movement direction, a portion of the face of the guide being wider than a width of the deflection roller, and the guide having a projection at the face, the projection projecting out towards the drum, the guide disposed at a deflection roller side between the deflection roller and along the tape extending from the deflection roller to the drum, wherein the tape entrained between the reel and the drum via the deflection roller is taken up or unwound, storing or discharging the sheet; wherein a portion of the projection that extends alongside the surface of the tape includes a portion having a width that is narrower than a width of the tape; and wherein the projection is formed in a substantially trapezoidal shape with a shorter base side on the drum side that is narrower than the width of the tape and a longer base side that is wider than the width of the tape.