Patent ID: 7140611

Claim:
A sheet conveying apparatus comprising: an image forming device that forms an image on a sheet; a conveyor device that conveys sheets; a stacking device in which the sheets conveyed by said conveyor device are stacked; a discharge device that discharges a bundle of the sheets stacked in said stacking device; a first receiving device that receives a bundle of the sheets discharged by said discharge device; a second receiving device that receives a bundle of the sheets discharged by said discharge device; a determining device that determines whether there is abnormality in conveyance of sheets to said stacking device; a controller that causes the entire bundle of the sheets stacked in said stacking device to be discharged onto said first receiving device in a case where said determining device determines that there is no abnormality in the conveyance of sheets to said stacking device, and causes the entire bundle of the sheets stacked in said stacking device to be discharged onto said second receiving device in a case where said determining device determines that there is abnormality in the conveyance of sheets to said stacking device; a second stacking device in which sheets to be fed to said stacking device are stacked; and a feeder that feeds the sheets stacked in said second stacking device, wherein said conveyor device conveys the sheets fed by said feeder to said stacking device, and wherein said conveyor device conveys the sheet received from said image forming device to said stacking device.