US 12,448,239 B2
Sheet remover, conveying device, and image forming apparatus
Yukifumi Kobayashi, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Yukifumi Kobayashi, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on May 3, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/142,581.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-081537 (JP), filed on May 18, 2022; and application No. 2023-048093 (JP), filed on Mar. 24, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2023/0406655 A1, Dec. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. B65H 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 5/00 (2013.01) [B65H 2402/441 (2013.01); B65H 2601/11 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sheet remover, comprising:
a pair of insertion-part formers forming an insertion part between the pair of insertion-part formers into which a sheet is inserted; and
a pair of through-part formers forming a through part between the pair of through-part formers through which the sheet is inserted, the through part being located downstream from the insertion part in a sheet insertion direction in which the sheet is inserted, wherein
a length of the insertion part in a thickness direction of the sheet decreases in the sheet insertion direction, and
a length of the through part in the thickness direction of the sheet is constant in the sheet insertion direction.