RECORDING APPARATUS

• US 20140103597A1
• Filed: 10/07/2013
• Published: 04/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: KOTAKA, Toshikazu
• Application Number:
  US14/047,405
• Publication Number:
  US 20140103597A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 271/3.14
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 1/00 Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated carriers used for associating, collating, or gathering articles B65H39/00
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 1/266 Support fully or partially removable from the handling machine, e.g. cassette, drawer B65H1/027 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2301/4212 of articles substantially horizontal
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2402/46 Table apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2402/51 Joints, e.g. riveted or magnetic joints
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2402/60 Coupling, adapter or locking means
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2405/11164 Rear portion extensible in parallel to transport direction
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2405/115 Cover
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2405/121 Locking means
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2405/3322 discharge tray superposed to feed tray
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 3/0684 on moving support, e.g. pivoting, for bringing the roller or like rotary separator into contact with the pile
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 31/02 with stationary end support against which pile accumulates
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 31/22 removable or interchangeable

Abstract

A recording apparatus includes a recording medium cassette removably attached to a casing and including a first sheet placement base on which a first recording medium is to be placed, a feed roller that delivers the first recording medium placed on the first sheet placement base in a feed direction, a recording unit that performs a recording operation on the first recording medium delivered by the feed roller, and a recorded medium receiver removably attached to the recording medium cassette at a position above the first sheet placement base in a vertical direction, and configured to receive the first recording medium discharged from the recording unit.

Claims

1. A recording apparatus comprising:

a recording medium cassette removably attached to a casing and including a first sheet placement base on which a first recording medium is to be placed;

a feed roller that delivers the first recording medium placed on the first sheet placement base in a feed direction;

a recording unit that performs a recording operation on the first recording medium delivered by the feed roller; and

a recorded medium receiver removably attached to the recording medium cassette at a position above the first sheet placement base in a vertical direction, and configured to receive the first recording medium discharged from the recording unit.

2. The recording apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a stopper that restricts the recorded medium receiver from being displaced with respect to the recording medium cassette in at least one of the feed direction and a width direction of the first recording medium, when the recorded medium receiver is attached to the recording medium cassette.

3. The recording apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the recorded medium receiver includes a receiver-side wall erected along an outer periphery of the recorded medium receiver,

the stopper includes a base-side wall erected along an outer periphery of the first sheet placement base, and

the receiver-side wall and the base-side wall are opposed to each other in at least one of the feed direction and the width direction of the first recording medium, when the recorded medium receiver is attached to the first sheet placement base.

4. The recording apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the recorded medium receiver includes one of a projection and a recess formed at an end portion,

the stopper includes the other of the projection and the recess formed at an end portion of the first sheet placement base, and

the projection is inserted in the recess when the recorded medium receiver is attached to the first sheet placement base.

5. The recording apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the recorded medium receiver includes, at an end portion thereof, one of a magnet and an iron member that can be stuck to the magnet, and

the stopper includes the other of the magnet and the iron member that can be stuck to the magnet located at an end portion of the first sheet placement base.

6. The recording apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the recorded medium receiver includes, at an end portion thereof, one of a pivotal shaft and a bearing,

the stopper includes the other of the pivotal shaft and the bearing provided at an end portion of the first sheet placement base, and

the recorded medium receiver is pivotable with respect to the first sheet placement base.

7. The recording apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a second sheet placement base disposed in the recording medium cassette between the first sheet placement base and the recorded medium receiver, the second sheet placement base being shorter than the first sheet placement base in the feed direction and configured to receive a second recording medium,

wherein the second sheet placement base is enabled to pivot with respect to the recording medium cassette when the recorded medium receiver is removed from the recording medium cassette.