Patent ID: 7798492

Claim:
A sheet conveying apparatus structured so as to arrange a conveying roller along a conveying path to convey sheets and suspend a conveying belt over the conveying roller, comprising: a top conveying roller with a top conveying belt in contact with one surface of the sheets suspended over; a bottom conveying roller with a bottom conveying belt in contact with another surface of the sheets suspended over; a drive roller to drive the top and bottom conveying belts; a take-in portion for holding and taking in the sheets by permitting the top conveying belt and the bottom conveying belt to make contact with each other; a first flange roller arranged at a leading edge of the take-in portion for composing the top conveying roller; and a second flange roller arranged just closely to an upstream side of the top conveying belt suspended over the first flange roller in a rotational direction, wherein a flange height of the first flange roller with the top conveying belt suspended over does not exceed the thickness of the top conveying belt, and the flange height of the second flange roller with the top conveying belt suspended over is at least 3 times of the thickness of the top conveying belt.