Patent ID: 8210528

Claim:
An image forming apparatus which discharges sheets one by one into a discharge space provided between a main body and an image reading device disposed above the main body, the image forming apparatus comprising: a discharge tray, provided on an upper surface of the main body, which has a convex-shaped stacking surface on which a discharged sheet is stacked, the convex-shaped stacking surface is inclined so as to set an upstream portion in a sheet discharge direction to be lower than an apex portion of the convex-shaped stacking surface; and a sheet pressing member, movable in a vertical direction, configured to press the sheet from above at the upstream end portion in the sheet discharge direction of the convex-shaped stacking surface, wherein the apex portion, extending in a direction intersecting with the sheet discharge direction, is provided downstream in the sheet discharge direction with respect to a center of gravity of the sheet stacked on the discharge tray, and the sheet is bent at the apex portion with a downstream portion in the sheet discharge direction of the sheet being turned downward by abutting with a bottom surface of the image reading device at a downstream position in the sheet discharge direction of the apex portion while the sheet pressing member is pressing an upstream portion in the sheet discharge direction of the sheet.