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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 17, 1999
Yasuyoshi Hayakawa, Mishima, JP;
Teruo Komatsu, Mishima, JP;
Tsuyoshi Waragai, Mishima, JP;
Atsushi Ogata, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A discharged sheet stacking apparatus includes a sheet feed-in device for pinching and feeding a sheet onto a sheet stacking portion on which a plurality of sheets are stacked and for causing a tip end of the sheet to abut against a sheet stopper. The sheet feed in device is disposed at a position spaced apart from the sheet stopper by a distance smaller than a length of the sheet. The sheet feed-in device continues the feeding operation while pinching a tail end of the sheet even after the tip end of the sheet abuts against the sheet stopper so that, after a loop is formed in the tail end of the sheet, the sheet is discharged onto the sheet stacking portion.