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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 09, 2017
Applicants:

Tadayasu Enomoto, Kanagawa, JP;

Ryo Takenaka, Tokyo, JP;

Daikai Zaitsu, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventors:

Tadayasu Enomoto, Kanagawa, JP;

Ryo Takenaka, Tokyo, JP;

Daikai Zaitsu, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/23 (2006.01); B65H 85/00 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01); B65H 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/6552 (2013.01); B65H 15/00 (2013.01); B65H 85/00 (2013.01); G03G 15/234 (2013.01); G03G 15/6573 (2013.01); B65H 2402/63 (2013.01); B65H 2404/61 (2013.01); B65H 2404/691 (2013.01); B65H 2405/31 (2013.01); B65H 2801/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A sheet stacker includes a sheet stack table on which a sheet is stacked and a sheet reversing section disposed above the sheet stack table. The sheet reversing section defines a sheet reverse passage to reverse a direction of conveyance of a sheet fed to the sheet reversing section. The sheet reversing section includes a first sheet guide to guide a bottom face of the sheet and a second sheet guide disposed downstream from the first sheet guide in a sheet conveyance direction in which the sheet is fed to the sheet reversing section. The second sheet guide to guide the bottom face of the sheet is attachable to and removable from an apparatus body.


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