Patent ID: 8270892

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image bearing member that bears a toner image larger than a size of a recording material; a transfer member that transfers the toner image from the image bearing member to the recording material; a fixing device that fixes the toner image transferred onto the recording material to be fixed to the recording material; a cleaning member that cleans an edge of the recording material in a width direction of the recording material, the width direction being perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the recording material; a skew roller provided at a downstream of the fixing device and an upstream of the cleaning member in the conveyance direction of the recording material; and a guide member that guides an end portion of the recording material, the guide member being provided at least in part on a downstream side of the skew roller in a recording material conveyance direction and provided at least in part on an upstream side of the cleaning member, wherein the recording material that passes through the fixing device is conveyed in a first direction and the skew roller conveys the sheet in a second direction skewed to the first direction, wherein the guide member contacts the recording material conveyed in the second direction and regulates a position of the recording material, and wherein the cleaning member contacts the edge of the recording material whose position is regulated by the guide member and cleans the recording material.