US 11,720,043 B2
Recording material transport device and image forming apparatus
Yuya Chonabayashi, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on May 7, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/868,543.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-202612 (JP), filed on Nov. 7, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0141330 A1, May 13, 2021
Int. Cl. B65H 1/26 (2006.01); B65H 5/06 (2006.01); B65H 5/38 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/6529 (2013.01) [B65H 5/068 (2013.01); B65H 5/38 (2013.01); B65H 2402/32 (2013.01); B65H 2601/321 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A recording material transport device comprising:
a transport section that transports a recording material, wherein the transport section comprises a drive roll and a rotating roll, wherein the rotating roll is disposed in contact with the drive roll;
a support member disposed to extend in a direction intersecting with a vertical direction, and supporting the recording material from below with the transport section stopped;
a guide member disposed to extend in the direction intersecting with the vertical direction and to guide the support member;
a first projection provided on one end portion side of the support member to cooperate with the support member and guided by a main body side of the recording material transport device in a case where the support member descends; and
a second projection provided on another end portion side of the support member to cooperate with the support member and guided by the main body side in a case where the support member descends, wherein
the support member is provided to be capable of descending, and, as the support member descends, both of the one end portion side and the another end portion side in the direction intersecting with the vertical direction descend and are inclined such that the one end portion side is positioned below the another end portion side,
the guide member comprises a first guide groove and a second guide groove, wherein the one end portion side of the support member is guided by the first guide groove, and the another end portion side of the support member is guided by the second guide groove,
the first projection moves along a first linear movement path in descending,
the second projection moves along a second linear movement path in descending, and
an inclination angle of the first linear movement path along which the first projection moves with respect to a horizontal direction is larger than an inclination angle of the second linear movement path along which the second projection moves with respect to the horizontal direction.