CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is based on and claims priority under 35 USC 119 from Japanese Patent Application No. 2019-181141 filed Oct. 1, 2019.

BACKGROUND

(i) Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to an image forming apparatus.

(ii) Related Art

An image forming apparatus that includes a body and a drawer unit drawable from the body is known. The image forming apparatus has a sheet transport path structure in which a transport path member of the body forming a sheet transport path and a transport path member of the drawer unit are separable. The image forming apparatus forms an image on a sheet transported along the sheet transport path. The sheet transport path structure includes a transport path member of the body that restricts a movement of one side of a sheet to a predetermined direction, a transport path member of the drawer unit facing the transport path member and slidably assembled with the transport path member to restrict a movement of another side of a sheet while having a predetermined distance between itself and the transport path member, and a cleaning mechanism disposed at a sliding start point of the transport path member of the drawer unit. The cleaning mechanism includes a cleaning member longer than or equal to a predetermined length from an end of the transport path member of the drawer unit to an end of the transport path member of the body facing the end. When the drawer unit is pulled out or attached, a distal end of the cleaning member slides over the transport path member of the body while being in contact with the transport path member (Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2011-241012).

An image forming apparatus that includes a sheet tray, an apparatus body, a sheet inverting unit, a pulled-in sheet container, and a pushing unit is known. The sheet tray accommodates sheets subjected to image formation. The apparatus body removably accommodates the sheet tray, and has a jam removal port on a side from which the sheet tray is pulled out and below a tray holding space. The sheet inverting unit is formed in the apparatus body to pull in sheets downward to invert the sheets. The pulled-in sheet container is formed at the lowermost portion in the apparatus body substantially horizontally to be continuous with the jam removal port to accommodate sheets pulled in downward by the sheet inverting unit. The pushing unit moves in the pulled-in sheet container toward the pull-out side of the sheet tray in association with a pull-out operation of the sheet tray, and pushes a jammed sheet out through the jam removal port while being in contact with the jammed sheet in the pulled-in sheet container during this movement (Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2004-35129).

SUMMARY

Aspects of non-limiting embodiments of the present disclosure relate to reliable removal of sheets remaining on a transport path and cleaning of the transport path.

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

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an image forming apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure that includes a drawer unit, a sheet inverting unit, a sheet guide plate, and a projection. The drawer unit is drawable from an apparatus body. The sheet inverting unit is disposed in the apparatus body, and pulls a sheet into a lower portion of the drawer unit to invert the sheet. The sheet guide plate is disposed on the sheet inverting unit to face the drawer unit, and includes a recess extending in a pull-out direction of the drawer unit that crosses a direction in which the sheet is transported. The projection protrudes toward the recess from a portion of a lower surface of the drawer unit facing the sheet guide plate near a pull-out start point in the pull-out direction and on a rear of a transport area of the sheet.

