US 11,999,585 B2
Medium loading device and recording system
Mio Yashita, Shiojiri (JP); Shun Ito, Matsumoto (JP); Masaki Namiki, Kitakyushu (JP); and Haruna Takahashi, Ina (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 24, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/456,392.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-196909 (JP), filed on Nov. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0169475 A1, Jun. 2, 2022
Int. Cl. B65H 35/04 (2006.01); B65H 31/26 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 35/04 (2013.01) [B65H 31/26 (2013.01); B65H 2301/5151 (2013.01); B65H 2701/1842 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medium loading device on which is loaded a medium discharged from a discharge unit of a processing device, the medium loading device comprising:
a placement portion on which at least one sheet of the medium discharged from the discharge unit is placed; and
a friction member disposed downstream of a downstream end portion of the placement portion in a movement direction, at the placement portion, of the medium, and including a contact surface configured to come into contact with a back surface, of the medium, facing the placement portion, wherein
the contact surface extends at least in the movement direction at a position lower than a height position of the downstream end portion in a device height direction,
wherein the medium loading device is a device that is separate from the processing device.