Patent ID: 7699307
Filing Date: 2010-04-20
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. A medium delivery apparatus, comprising: a medium insertion portion, into which a medium is to be inserted; a medium delivery port, from which the medium inserted into the medium insertion portion is to be delivered; first and second medium guide surfaces, configured to be opposed to each other to guide the medium towards the medium delivery port; a feed roller, arranged at a side of the first medium guide surface to feed the medium inserted into the medium insertion portion towards the medium delivery port; a first pressing member, being rotatably supported around a first support shaft arranged at a side of the second medium guide surface, between a waiting position at a side of the second medium guide surface and a medium pressing position at which the first pressing member approaches or abuts against the feed roller; a second pressing member, being rotatably supported around a second support shaft attached to the first pressing member, between a retreating position to which the second pressing member retreats to a side of the first pressing member and a protruding position at which the second pressing member approaches or abuts against the first medium guide surface; a rotating member, being rotatably supported around the second support shaft; an urging member, configured to give an urging force acting in a first rotation direction to the rotating member to rotate the second pressing member toward the protruding position; an elastic member, configured to cause the second pressing member and the rotating member to abut against each other such that the second pressing member and the rotating member rotate together; and a stationary abutting portion, against which the rotating member abuts when the first pressing member is placed in the vicinity of the waiting position, wherein when the first pressing member is placed at the waiting position, the rotating member abuts against the stationary abutting portion and rotates in a direction opposite to the first rotation direction so as to be spaced at a distance from the second pressing member.