CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is based on and claims priority under 35 USC 119 from Japanese Patent Application No. 2019-188295 filed Oct. 15, 2019.

BACKGROUND

(i) Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to a sheet tray, a sheet transport device, and an image forming apparatus.

(ii) Related Art

Image forming apparatuses including a sheet tray that stores sheets and configured to feed a sheet from the sheet tray and form images on both sides of the sheet are known.

For example, Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2011-241012 proposes an image forming apparatus that forms images on both sides of a sheet and that includes an improved mechanism for cleaning a sheet transport path.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2004-035129 proposes an image forming apparatus that forms images on both sides of a sheet and that includes a structure for pushing out a sheet that has entered a space below a sheet tray with a pushing unit including a link mechanism that operates in response to a movement of the sheet tray that is pulled out or a movement of an opening-closing covering.

SUMMARY

Aspects of non-limiting embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a sheet tray, a sheet transport device, and an image forming apparatus including a structure for removing a sheet that has entered a space under the sheet tray, the structure being simper than that of the above-described pushing unit including the link mechanism proposed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2004-035129.

Aspects of certain non-limiting embodiments of the present disclosure address the above advantages and/or other advantages not described above. However, aspects of the non-limiting embodiments are not required to address the advantages described above, and aspects of the non-limiting embodiments of the present disclosure may not address advantages described above.

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a sheet tray including a sheet storage unit that stores a sheet, the sheet storage unit being capable of being pulled out of a housing in a forward direction and pushed into the housing in a rearward direction to a position such that a gap is provided below the sheet storage unit; and a sheet moving portion fixed to the sheet storage unit, the sheet moving portion moving together with the sheet storage unit when the sheet storage unit is pulled out, thereby moving a sheet that has entered the gap in the forward direction.

