Patent ID: 7891804

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a recording portion for recording an image on a recording sheet; a conveyance roller and a follower roller which is driven by said conveyance roller, for conveying the recording sheet through said recording portion, wherein said conveyance roller and said follower roller are the rollers closest to said recording portion upstream of said recording portion; and a reverse feeding portion for reversing, in a facing orientation, the recording sheet on a first side of which recording has been effected by said recording portion, and for feeding the recording sheet which has been reversed to said conveyance roller and said follower roller, wherein, in a double-sided recording operation, the recording sheet is conveyed for a predetermined distance by said conveyance roller and said follower roller, and said conveyance roller is then driven in reverse to return a trailing end (with respect to current conveying direction) of the recording sheet to a nip formed between the conveyance roller and the follower roller so that a sheet inclination rectifying operation is carried out by pushing a leading end of the recording sheet (with respect to current conveying direction) against a nip formed between a pair of rollers further upstream of said recording portion, before the recording is effected on the first side of the recording sheet, the recording sheet is conveyed by said conveyance roller to said reverse feeding portion, after the recording is effected on a the first side of the recording sheet by said recording portion, and the recording sheet received from the reverse feeding portion is conveyed by the pair of rollers further upstream of said recording portion and further conveyed to the recording portion by said conveyance roller and said follower roller, which are being rotated, without the sheet inclination rectifying operation, before the recording is effected on a second side of the recording sheet by said recording portion.