US 12,319,527 B2
Feed mechanism, image forming apparatus, and feed tray
Kengo Noda, Inazawa (JP); Gakuro Kanazawa, Toyokawa (JP); Satoshi Miyase, Nagoya (JP); and Yuki Tsujimura, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Dec. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/563,486.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-219745 (JP), filed on Dec. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0204297 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. B65H 23/032 (2006.01); B65H 1/26 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 23/0322 (2013.01) [B65H 1/266 (2013.01); B65H 2301/415085 (2013.01); B65H 2801/03 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A feed tray comprising:
a first accommodation portion configured to accommodate a roll body from which a first sheet-shaped medium is to be unrolled;
a side guide movable in an axial direction of the roll body accommodated in the first accommodation portion; and
a second accommodation portion configured to accommodate a second sheet-shaped medium in a stackable manner,
wherein the side guide is contactable with an end of the first sheet-shaped medium unrolled from the roll body in the axial direction,
wherein the second accommodation portion comprises a support member configured to support the second sheet-shaped medium from below,
wherein the side guide comprises a first side guide located on one side of the support member in the axial direction and a second side guide located on another side of the support member in the axial direction, the side guide comprises:
a first side contact surface contactable with the end of the first sheet-shaped medium unrolled from the roll body;
a second side contact surface contactable with the end of the second sheet-shaped medium in the axial direction; and
a lower contact surface that is connected to the first and second side contact surfaces and is contactable with a lower surface of the first sheet-shaped medium and a lower surface of the second sheet-shaped medium,
wherein the first sheet-shaped medium is to be unrolled from the roll body below the support member, and
wherein the side guide is movable from a first position to a second position, the lower contact surface not overlapping with the support member when viewed from a top in a case the side guide is located in the first position, at least a part of the lower contact surface being located below the support member in a case the side guide is located in the second position.