| 摘要 |
In a conventional device that performs obliquity correction by blocking the leading end of a sheet, it was difficult to improve the throughput in sheet conveyance by increasing the sheet conveyance speed and by reducing the intervals between sheets that are conveyed sequentially. A sheet conveying device includes a blocking member having a blocking surface with which a leading end of a sheet that is being conveyed comes into contact for obliquity correction, whereby the leading end of the sheet can be blocked, the blocking member rotating by being pushed by the leading end of the sheet that is being conveyed. The blocking member is rotatable to be in a sheet-passage-allowing orientation in which the sheet is allowed to pass. After a trailing end of the sheet that is being conveyed has passed the blocking member, the blocking member that is in the sheet-passage-allowing orientation rotates in a same direction as a sheet conveyance direction and is positioned to be in a standby position. |
