Patent ID: 8781363

Claim:
A medium carrying unit to be installed in an image forming apparatus, comprising: a first carrying path through which a medium is carried; a handle member positioned on or below the first carrying path and including a part to be gripped by a user in a state that allows the handle member to project above a carrying surface of the first carrying path; an accommodation area that is defined to surround the handle member and that accommodates that handle member in a state that allows the handle member to be freely inserted and removed so that the handle member hides below the carrying surface of the first carrying path; and a push-out mechanism that pushes out the handle member from an interior of the accommodation area for removing the medium carrying unit from the image forming apparatus, wherein the handle member includes a handle fulcrum for enabling a rotational motion, the handle member being accommodated in the accommodation area by rotating the handle member about the handle fulcrum when the medium carrying unit is installed to the image forming apparatus, the handle member includes a handle side projection part that comprises the push-out mechanism to rotate the handle member in a push-up direction about the handle fulcrum by contacting a main body side projection part provided on the image forming apparatus when the medium carrying unit is removed from the image forming apparatus.