Patent ID: 9580265
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: B65H

Claim:
1. An image recording apparatus, comprising: a tray configured to support a sheet; a chassis defining a first conveyer path, in which the sheet supported on the tray is conveyed in a first conveying direction, and a second conveyer path, which is branched from the first conveyer path at a branch point and merged with the first conveyer path at a merging point, the second conveyer path through which the sheet is conveyed in a second conveying direction guiding the sheet to be inverted to reenter the first conveyer path through the merging point; a base member integrally formed of resin and comprising a guiding section, the guiding section defining a form of a part of the second conveyer path; a recording unit configured to record an image on the sheet conveyed in the first conveyer path; a drive shaft supported by the base member; and a return-conveyer roller disposed in the second conveyer path and configured to convey the sheet to be guided on the guiding section in the second conveying direction by rotation of the drive shaft.