Patent ID: 6470160
Filing Date: 2002-10-22
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
An image-forming apparatus having a recording sheet-delivery path for delivering a recording sheet from a sheet feed unit to a sheet discharge unit in an opposite side; and being separable into two portions of an upper main body portion and a lower main body portion by opening an opener assembly from one side edge of the upper main body portion around a turning axis provided at the other side edge thereof across the recording sheet delivery path,said image-forming apparatus comprising: a nearly rectangular manual sheet feeder tray having a first edge portion extending in a direction crossing the recording sheet delivery path, and being hinged turnably to the lower main body portion at the side of the sheet feed unit, and a second edge portion being positioned near a space between the upper main body portion pushed up by the opener assembly and the lower main body portion on a sheet feed unit side and extending at the side opposite to the first edge portion and in the crossing direction, the manual sheet feeder tray being positioned selectively for a working mode by bringing down the second edge portion by turning around the first edge portion, or for a non-working mode by turning up the second edge portion around the first edge portion as the turning axis to be fixed; and the manual sheet feeder tray overlapping a part of a side wall of the upper main body portion to be in contact therewith in the non-working mode irrespective of the opener assembly being open or close.