Recording apparatus

• US 9,096,401 B2
• Filed: 03/21/2013
• Issued: 08/04/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Ueyama, Naohiro, Mikuriya, Hideo, Ogihara, Masahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): KIM, SANG K
• Application Number:
  US13/848,447
• Publication Number:
  US 20130306784A1
• Time in Patent Office: 866 Days
• Field of Search: 242/558, 242/560, 242/560.1, 400/609, 400/613
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 11/001 Handling wide copy materials
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 15/042 for loading rolled-up continuous copy material into printers, e.g. for replacing a used-up paper roll; Point-of-sale printers with openable casings allowing access to the rolled-up continuous copy material
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 19/10 in unwinding mechanisms or in connection with unwinding operations

Abstract

A recording apparatus includes a plurality of roll-type medium loading unit that are positioned so that a roll-type medium can be loaded therein from a front of the recording apparatus; a transportation unit that transports the medium which has been fed from the roll-type medium loading unit in the downstream direction; and a recording unit that performs recording on the transported medium, wherein the roll-type medium loading unit includes a first roll-type medium loading unit that is disposed at a position above the recording unit and a second roll-type medium loading unit that is disposed at a position below the recording unit.

Claims

1. A recording apparatus comprising:

a plurality of roll-type medium loading unit that are positioned so that a roll-type medium can be loaded therein from a front of the recording apparatus;

a transportation unit that transports the medium which has been fed from the roll-type medium loading unit in the downstream direction;

a recording unit that performs recording on the transported medium, wherein the roll-type medium loading unit includes a first roll-type medium loading unit that is disposed at a position above the recording unit and a second roll-type medium loading unit that is disposed at a position below the recording unit, and

a guide member that is disposed in front of the second roll-type member loading unit, the guide member being part of a medium receiving unit that receives a recorded medium after the recording unit has performed the recording on the medium, the guide member guiding the recorded medium to a holding unit of the medium receiving unit.

2. The recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the guide member is disposed in front of the second roll-type medium loading unit when the second roll-type medium is positioned at a waiting position where recording can be performed by the recording unit, wherein the guide member guides the recorded medium when the medium is ejected, wherein the guide member is configured to be movable between a guiding position where the guide member guides the medium and a retracted position where the guide member is positioned so as not to interfere with the second roll-type medium loading unit during loading of the roll-type medium into the second roll-type medium loading unit.

3. The recording apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a first moving mechanism that moves the second roll-type medium loading unit between the waiting position and the loading position, and a second moving mechanism that displaces the loading position of the second roll-type medium loading unit that has been positioned by the first moving mechanism further forward.

4. The recording apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the guide member includes at least a first guide member that guides to regulate a front position of the ejected medium and a second guide member that guides to regulate a back position of the ejected medium, wherein at least the first guide member and the second guide member are configured to be movable between the respective guiding positions and the retracted positions.

5. The recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second roll-type medium loading unit is configured to be movable between a waiting position and a loading position which is a position forward of the waiting position during loading of the roll-type medium.

6. The recording apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the second roll-type medium loading unit includes an abutment section that abuts against guide member when the second roll-type medium loading unit moves from the waiting position to the loading position, and the guide member moves from the guiding position to the retracted position with the abutment of the abutment section.

7. The recording apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising at least one medium guide section that guide the roll-type medium loaded in the second roll-type medium loading unit to the recording unit, wherein at least one of the medium guide sections is configured to move with the second roll-type medium loading unit.