Patent ID: 8720886

Claim:
A sheet conveying apparatus which conveys a sheet, comprising: a first conveying path, along which the sheet is conveyed; a second conveying path, along which the sheet conveyed from the first conveying path is reconveyed to the first conveying path; a reverse conveyance roller pair, which performs forward rotation to convey the sheet conveyed from the first conveying path, and thereafter performs reverse rotation to convey the sheet to the second conveying path; a reconveying roller pair which is disposed in the second conveying path and which reconveys the sheet, which is conveyed through the reverse rotation of the reverse conveyance roller pair, to the first conveying path; and a control portion which causes the reconveying roller pair to nip, in an overlaid manner, a preceding sheet and a succeeding sheet that is conveyed successively to the preceding sheet by the reverse conveyance roller pair, and thereafter rotates a first roller of the reconveying roller pair that is in contact with the preceding sheet while stopping rotation of a second roller of the reconveying roller pair that is in contact with the succeeding sheet so that the preceding sheet is conveyed to the first conveying path and the succeeding sheet stays in the second conveying path.