Image recording apparatus

Details Image recording apparatus Image recording apparatus

2005-09-13

2008-08-19

Mackey, Patrick (Department: 3653)

Sheet feeding or delivering

Feeding

Separators

Reexamination Certificate

active

07413183

ABSTRACT:
An image recording apparatus including: a sheet-supply cassette which accommodates a stack of recording sheets and which is insertable into and removable from a main body of the apparatus; an end wall which is disposed at a downstream end of the cassette in a sheet-supply direction in which the sheets are supplied, so as to extend in a direction perpendicular to the sheet-supply direction and which has a height larger than that of a maximum number of the sheets that can be accommodated in the cassette; an image recording unit disposed in the main body for recording an image on the sheets; an arm disposed in the main body and pivotable about a shaft which extends in the direction perpendicular to the sheet-supply direction; a sheet-feed roller which is disposed at a free end of the arm and which is, in a state in which the cassette is inserted into the main body, in contact with an uppermost one of the sheets accommodated in the cassette and which feeds the uppermost one of the sheets toward the image recording unit; and a link mechanism which is disposed in the main body for raising and lowering the roller and the arm and which cooperates with the end wall to retract the roller and the arm above the cassette when the cassette is inserted into and removed from the main body.

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