Patent ID: 11878533
Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A liquid supplying apparatus, comprising:
a tank configured to store liquid, the tank having a hole open to outside of the tank;
a reservoir chamber arranged in the tank, the reservoir chamber being configured to store a portion of the liquid in the tank; and
a flow path arranged in the tank, the flow path being configured to store another portion of the liquid in the tank, the flow path connecting the reservoir chamber and the hole, the flow path having a first funnel section, the first funnel section having a reduced cross-sectional area of a part of the flow path,
wherein the first funnel section is located at a position equal to or higher than a surface of a predetermined maximum amount of the liquid storable in the tank being in a usable posture, in which the liquid is suppliable externally from the tank, the reduced cross-sectional area of the first funnel section being configured to create a meniscus formed by the liquid having a surface tension to restrain the liquid in the tank from flowing past the first funnel section and toward the hole when the tank is in an X1-rotated posture, in which the tank is rotated about a first axis extending along a horizontal direction by a first angle from the usable posture.