US 12,404,127 B2
Image recording apparatus and feed tray
Kengo Noda, Inazawa (JP); and Nao Morimoto, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Jan. 5, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/150,312.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-012863 (JP), filed on Jan. 31, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0242361 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. B65H 1/26 (2006.01); B65H 1/02 (2006.01); B65H 3/44 (2006.01); B65H 5/06 (2006.01); B65H 7/02 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 5/062 (2013.01) [B65H 1/027 (2013.01); B65H 3/44 (2013.01); B65H 7/02 (2013.01); B65H 2301/5111 (2013.01); B65H 2402/30 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image recording apparatus, comprising:
a feed tray;
a feed roller configured to feed a sheet medium accommodated in the feed tray; and
a recording unit configured to record an image on the sheet medium fed by the feed roller,
wherein the feed tray includes:
a first accommodating part configured to accommodate a rolled body formed by rolling the sheet medium;
a second accommodating part configured to accommodate a plurality of sheet media in a stacked state, each of the sheet media being the sheet medium;
a contact surface configured to contact, from below, the sheet medium unrolled from the rolled body accommodated in the first accommodating part; and
a support member having a support surface configured to support the plurality of sheet media in the stacked state, which is accommodated in the second accommodating part,
in a state where the second accommodating part is in a posture to accommodate the plurality of sheet media in the stacked state, a position of the second accommodating part relative to the first accommodating part is fixed,
the feed roller is configured to be movable between a contact position at which the feed roller contacts the contact surface and a separation position at which the feed roller is away from the contact surface, and
the support member is configured to be movable between a first position at which the support member is outside a movement path of the feed roller and a second position at which the support member is on the movement path of the feed roller with the support surface facing upward.