Sheet storage apparatus and printing apparatus

• US 10,457,516 B2
• Filed: 02/08/2018
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Ohashi, Takakazu, Anayama, Daiki, Yoneyama, Hiromasa, Asai, Yasuyuki, Suto, Takuya, Kikuchi, Tetsuo, Wada, Itaru
• Primary Examiner(s): McCullough, Michael C
• Application Number:
  US15/891,748
• Publication Number:
  US 20180244484A1
• Time in Patent Office: 628 Days
• Field of Search: 271223, 271224
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 11/0005 Curl smoothing, i.e. smoothing down corrugated printing material, e.g. by pressing means acting on wrinkled printing material
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 13/106 for the sheet output section
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 15/04 Supporting, feeding, or guiding devices; Mountings for web rolls or spindles
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2405/112 Rear, i.e. portion opposite to the feeding / delivering side
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2405/312 Trolley, cart, i.e. support movable on the floor
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2701/11312 large formats, i.e. above A3
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2801/36 Plotting
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 31/02 with stationary end support against which pile accumulates
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 31/20 adjustable for different article sizes
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 31/26 Auxiliary devices for retaining articles in the pile
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 31/36 Auxiliary devices for contacting each article with a front stop as it is piled

Abstract

A sheet storage apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a receiving unit which receives a sheet that is discharged from a discharge port at a position below the discharge port, and a sheet butting unit which is provided in the vicinity of the receiving unit and receives a front end portion of the sheet. The sheet butting unit has a projection which is provided on at least one of an inner side surface and an inner upper surface of the sheet butting unit. The projection is configured to be capable of retaining a state of regulating vertically upward movement of the front end portion of the sheet being discharged from the discharge port.

Claims

1. A printing apparatus comprising:

a printing unit configured to perform printing on a sheet conveyed in a conveyance direction;

a discharge port configured to discharge the sheet on which printing has been performed by the printing unit;

a receiving unit configured to receive the sheet being discharged from the discharge port at a position below the discharge port; and

a sheet butting unit provided on an upstream side of the receiving unit with respect to the conveyance direction and configured to regulate movement of a front end of the sheet, wherein the sheet butting unit has a first surface provided facing the receiving unit and on which a plurality of projections are arranged, and a second surface provided above the first surface and on which a plurality of projections are arranged.

2. The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first surface is arranged in a vertical direction.

3. The printing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the plurality of the projections provided on the first surface are formed such that at least one of the projections located at a vertically upper part has a greater height.

4. The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second surface is arranged in a discharge direction of the sheet.

5. The printing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the plurality of the projections provided on the second surface have heights such that the projection among the arranged projections which is located on the most downstream side with respect to the discharge direction of the sheet is formed to be higher than the rest of the projections.

6. The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the height of the projections is greater than a value obtained by multiplying a maximum thickness of a sheet useable in the apparatus by a maximum number of the sheets useable in the apparatus.