Patent ID: 7883284
Filing Date: 2011-02-08
Classification: B65H,G03G

Abstract:
1. An image recording apparatus, comprising: a sheet-supply tray device which accommodates and holds a plurality of recording sheets and which supplies the recording sheets, one by one, in a sheet-supply direction; and an image recording device which records an image on each of the recording sheets supplied from the sheet-supply tray device, wherein the sheet-supply tray device includes a first tray which accommodates and holds at least one first sheet of the plurality of recording sheets, and a second, top tray which is provided at a top of the sheet-supply tray device such that the top tray is slideable relative to the first tray in a sliding direction, which accommodates at least one second sheet of the plurality of recording sheets, and which selectively takes a stacked posture thereof in which the top tray is stacked on the first tray, and an opening posture thereof in which at least a portion of the top tray opens at least a portion of the first tray, and wherein the top tray includes at least one dropping preventing cover which prevents, in a state in which the top tray takes the opening posture thereof, said at least one second sheet from dropping out of the top tray, such that when the top tray is slid relative to the first tray in the sliding direction, said at least one dropping preventing cover is moved relative to the first tray in the sliding direction in which the top tray is slid.