Patent ID: 8783858
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A recording apparatus comprising: a recording head that performs recording on a medium which is fed along a manual feeding path; a pair of feeding rollers that are rotated in a forward direction and a reverse direction by drive force from a drive source, and feed the medium to the recording head side along the manual feeding path by a rotation in the forward direction; a load applying unit that is placed at an upstream side further than the pair of feeding rollers in a feeding direction of the medium along the manual feeding path, and gives load for suppressing the movement to the upstream side in the feeding direction with respect to the medium in which a leading end thereof returns to the upstream side in the feeding direction by the rotation of the pair of feeding rollers in the reverse direction; and an automatic feeding device that feeds the medium held in a medium holding portion up to the pair of feeding rollers along an automatic feeding path, wherein a bending permission space, which permits bending of the medium that is fed along the manual feeding path, is interposed between the pair of feeding rollers and the load applying unit in the feeding direction, wherein the automatic feeding device is provided with a conveying roller that is rotated by the drive force from the drive source, and the conveying roller is located at a side that is opposite to the pair of feeding rollers with the bending permission space interposed therebetween.