Patent ID: 8714544
Filing Date: 2014-05-06
Classification: B41J,B65H,G03G

Abstract:
1. A media cassette housing apparatus comprising: a guide member configured to guide an insertion of a media cassette from an entrance into an installed position of a cassette housing unit and to guide a pulling out of the media cassette from the installed position to the entrance of the cassette housing unit; and a swingable member provided to the guide member, being swingable in inserting and pulling directions of the media cassette, and including a slide guide surface configured to come into sliding contact with a bottom surface of the media cassette upon the insertion and pulling of the media cassette, wherein the slide guide surface extends along the inserting direction and the pulling direction of the media cassette and is opposed to the bottom surface of the media cassette, wherein the swingable member is swingably provided to the guide member, and wherein the bottom surface of the media cassette moves, while being in slide-contact with the slide guide surface of the swingable member, in the inserting direction and the pulling direction of the media cassette, upon the insertion and pulling of the media cassette, wherein the slide guide surface is a flat surface that extends substantially parallel to the bottom surface of the media cassette along the insertion and pulling direction of the media cassette.