Patent ID: 6935238

Claim:
An image recording material sheet conveying device comprising: a cassette accommodating section having at least one cassette in which image recording materials and interleaf sheets are accommodated in a state of being stacked alternately, where the image recording material is sheet-shaped and has a support and an image recording surface is formed on one surface of the support, and the interleaf sheet is sheet-shaped and is for protecting the image recording surface; a take-out mechanism taking a pair of the image recording material and the interleaf sheet out from the cassette in a state in which the interleaf sheet is superposed on the image recording material; a conveying mechanism receiving the pair of the image recording material and the interleaf sheet from the take-out mechanism, and conveying the pair of the image recording material and the interleaf sheet in a predetermined conveying direction along a conveying path; a peeling mechanism peeling, at the conveying path, the interleaf sheet from the image recording material; and an interleaf sheet conveying mechanism conveying the interleaf sheet, which has been peeled-off, along a path which is different than the conveying path.