An image forming apparatus includes feeding, conveying, and separating members, and detecting, image forming, and control units. The feeding member feeds a recording material placed on a tray. The separating member and the conveying member separate recording materials at a nip. The detecting unit detects that the recording materials have been fed to the nip. The image forming unit forms an image on fed recording material. The control unit switches between a first and second control. Under the first control, the feeding member starts feeding a recording material placed on the tray, and ends feeding before a recording material trailing end passes through the feeding member. Under the second control, the feeding member starts feeding a recording material placed on the tray, and ends feeding after a recording material trailing end passes through the feeding member when the detection unit detects that the recording materials are fed to the nip.

A sheet feeding device includes an upper sheet container, a lower sheet container, and a sheet detector. The lower sheet container disposed below the removable upper sheet container is configured to contain a sheet. The sheet detector is configured to detect the sheet in the lower sheet container and includes a sheet contact member disposed above the lower sheet container. The sheet contact member is contactable to the upper sheet container and the sheet in the lower sheet container. Either the upper sheet container or the sheet contact member has a sloped face inclined downward from downstream toward upstream in a container insertion direction, on at least one of a downstream side in the container insertion direction of a lower portion of the upper sheet container and an upstream side in the container insertion direction of an upper portion of the sheet contact member.

An image forming apparatus includes a removable sheet support tray. The sheet support tray includes a sheet support surface providing a sheet support area above the sheet support surface. The support tray also includes a stopper portion movable between a restraining position and a non-restraining position that is a different position from the restraining position. In a state where the stopper portion is located at the restraining position, the stopper portion includes a surface disposed adjacent to and downstream of the sheet support area in a first direction, the first direction extending along at least a portion of the sheet support surface.

An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a sheet processing device, and control circuitry. The image forming apparatus forms an image on a sheet. The sheet processing device performs post-processing on the sheet. The sheet processing device includes a first conveyance path through which the sheet is conveyed and subjected to the post-processing and a second conveyance path through which the sheet is conveyed without the post-processing. In response to an instruction of print jobs including both a print job of one or N copies subjected to the post-processing and a print job not subjected to the post-processing, the circuitry executes the job not subjected to the post-processing during execution of an M-th copy of the job subjected to the post-processing and causes the sheet to be conveyed through the second conveyance path, where N is two or greater and M satisfies 1≤M<N.

A sheet conveying device includes a sheet feed tray. The sheet feed tray includes a first guide and a second guide. The first guide has a first end portion. The first end portion has a first area located in a central portion in a width direction, and a second area located closer to one end in the width direction than the first area. The first end portion is inclined such that the first area is downstream of the second area in the sheet conveying direction. The second guide has an upper end portion located downstream of the first end portion of the first guide in the sheet conveying direction and above the first end portion. The upper end portion has a third area located in a central portion in the width direction and a fourth area located closer to an end in the width direction than the third area.

Disclosed are a cash box and a cash recycling and handling device; the cash box includes a box body, a first cash storage cavity, a second cash storage cavity, a transfer passage, a first switching member and a linkage assembly; a first lifting platform is provided inside the first cash storage cavity, and the first lifting platform is capable of moving back and forth in the preset direction and can be located at a first dispensing position; when the first lifting platform is in the first dispensing position, it is engaged with the linkage assembly to rotate the first switching member to a first position, and when the first lifting platform moves to a first inlet, the linkage assembly rotates the first switching member to a second position.

A sheet accommodating apparatus includes a first cassette provided so as to be drawn out in a draw-out direction, a second cassette disposed adjacent to the first cassette in a vertical direction, one holder member, and a first light emitting member and a second light emitting member that are supported by the holder member. The first cassette includes a first accommodating container and a first cover. The second cassette includes a second accommodating container and a second cover. The first cover has a first hole provided in a position opposing the first light emitting member in the draw-out direction such that the light emitted from the first light emitting member passes therethrough. The second cover has a second hole provided in a position opposing the second light emitting member in the draw-out direction such that the light emitted from the second light emitting member passes therethrough.

A thin film transfer vehicle is provided, which includes a base frame, a bearing frame and a baffle disposed on the base frame; the bearing frame is provided with multiple support layers from top to bottom, and the multiple support layers are configured to carry multiple thin films respectively; the baffle is disposed in front of the bearing frame along a moving direction of the transfer vehicle, and multiple openings are disposed on the baffle, which are disposed in multiple rows and columns; and the support layers correspond to positions between two adjacent rows of the openings.

A sheet feeding apparatus for feeding sheets is provided with a multi feed detecting section for detecting multi feed of conveyed sheets in a predetermined detection position of a conveyance path, and first and second discharge sections to which multi-fed sheets with the multi feed detected are discharged, and corresponding to one of a front end position of the multi-fed sheets at the time the multi feed detecting section detects the multi feed of sheets, a sheet storage state of the second discharge section, sheet storage states of the first and second discharge sections, a size of sheets and weighing, selects one of the first and second discharge sections to discharge the multi-fed sheets to the selected discharge section.

There is provided a recording apparatus including: a medium support section that supports a medium before feeding; a feeding roller that sends out the medium; and an apparatus main body, in which the medium support section is configured to switch between a stored state of being stored in the apparatus main body and a protruding state, being a state where an upstream part in a feeding direction protrudes from a first side surface of the apparatus main body, in the protruding state of the medium support section, close to a second side surface, which is a side surface opposite to the first side surface, an assist roller that applies a sending force to the medium fed from the medium support section is provided upstream of the feeding roller in the feeding direction.