Patent ID: 6702490
Filing Date: 2004-03-09
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
An image recording apparatus in which a toner sheet is layered on an image receiving sheet, and toner is transferred from said toner sheet onto said image receiving sheet by applying light or heat to said toner sheet, the improvement being characterized by protecting sheet winding-up means for winding up a protecting sheet which covers the surface of at least one of said image receiving sheet said toner sheet, wherein said toner and said image receiving sheets are set in sheet set portions, and, wherein said protecting sheet winding-up means comprises a winding-up shaft located near at least one sheet set portion of said image receiving sheet and said toner sheet, and winding-up shaft drive means for driving said winding-up shaft,wherein said winding-up shaft drive means also drives medium setting shafts to which said image receiving sheet and/or said toner sheet is set, and a difference of the number of revolutions between said medium setting shaft and said winding-up shaft is selected such that an amount of said protecting sheet wound up with said winding-up shaft is always somewhat larger than an amount of said protecting sheet as fed even if the diameter of the roll of each of said image receiving sheet and said toner sheet, which are set to each said medium setting shaft, take any value.