Patent ID: 8616106

Claim:
A sheet cutting apparatus comprising: a stacking portion having a sheet stacking surface on which a sheet is stacked; a movable blade which moves beyond the sheet stacking surface to cut the sheet, stacked on the sheet stacking surface, into a cut sheet and a cut piece; and a pushing member which moves together with the movable blade, and has a plurality of pushing surfaces which are arranged along a tip of the movable blade and are retracted from the tip of the movable blade at a predetermined distance to push down the cut piece beyond the sheet stacking surface, wherein the movable blade includes a tapered surface which forms a cutting edge to cut the sheet, and makes an acute angle with respect to a moving direction of the movable blade, and wherein the pushing member is in contact with the tapered surface of the movable blade, and an angle, facing the cut piece to be pushed, between each of the plurality of pushing surfaces and the tapered surface is an obtuse angle.