Patent ID: 8019264

Claim:
An image-forming apparatus comprising: an image-bearing member supporting a toner image; a transfer portion at which the toner image on the image-bearing member is transferred on a sheet; a first guide configured to guide the sheet to the transfer portion, the first guide having a first contact portion that is a downstream edge of the first guide in a conveying direction, a surface of the sheet on which the toner image is transferred contacting the first contact portion; and a flexible second guide configured to guide the sheet to the transfer portion, the second guide having a second contact portion, the surface of the sheet on which the toner image is transferred contacting the second contact portion, wherein the first contact portion is located on an upstream side of the second contact portion in a sheet-conveying direction, wherein after a rear end of the sheet passes the first contact portion, the rear end of the sheet passes the second contact portion while the sheet causes the second guide to bend toward the image-bearing member, and wherein by a force from the sheet, the second guide is bent from a position thereof at an upstream of the first contact portion in the sheet-conveying direction.