Patent ID: 8493639

Claim:
An image recording device comprising: a recording unit configured to record an image on a sheet; a tray disposed below the recording unit, having a sheet holding surface, and configured to be inserted into and removed from the image recording device; a feed guide defining a curved first conveying path and configured to guide the sheet to the recording unit; an arm disposed between the recording unit and the tray and configured to pivot between a first arm position and a second arm position where a free end of the arm is farther from the sheet holding surface than in the first arm position and is retracted from an insertion space of the image recording device dimensioned to accept the tray; a feed roller rotatably disposed at the free end of the arm and configured to feed the sheet on the sheet holding surface of the tray to the first conveying path when the arm is in the first arm position; and a return guide disposed between the recording unit and the arm and configured to pivot between a first return guide position where the return guide at least partially defines a second conveying path and guides the sheet having an image recorded thereon back to the feed guide, and a second return guide position where a free end of the return guide is closer to the recording unit than in the first return guide position, wherein a space occupied by the return guide in the first return guide position overlaps a space occupied by the arm in the second arm position, and the return guide is in the second return guide position when the arm is in the second arm position.