Patent ID: 7997818

Claim:
An image recording apparatus, comprising: a sheet-supply tray device which accommodates and holds a plurality of recording sheets and which supplies the recording sheets, one by one, in a sheet-supply direction; and an image recording device which records an image on each of the recording sheets supplied from the sheet-supply tray device, wherein the sheet-supply tray device includes: a first tray which accommodates and holds at least one first sheet of the plurality of recording sheets, and a second tray which accommodates and holds at least one second sheet of the plurality of recording sheets, and which selectively takes a stacked posture thereof in which the second tray is stacked on the first tray, and an opening posture thereof in which at least a portion of the second tray opens at least a portion of the first tray, wherein the second tray includes: a base portion having a first positioning wall which contacts one of opposite ends of said at least one second sheet in a first direction and thereby positions said one of said opposite ends in the first direction; and a pivotable portion which is pivotable, about an axis line extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, relative to the base portion so as to selectively change the second tray to the stacked posture thereof and the opening posture thereof, and which has a sheet-support surface that supports said at least one second sheet, and a second positioning wall that contacts an other of said opposite ends of said at least one second sheet and thereby positions said other of said opposite ends in the first direction; and a supporting device which supports the pivotable portion of the second tray while permitting the pivotable portion to be pivoted about the axis line and thereby permitting the second tray to selectively take the stacked posture thereof and the opening posture thereof such that said at least one second sheet held by the second tray is not plastically deformed, and wherein the axis line about which the pivotable portion of the second tray is pivotable is located, in the first direction, between the first positioning wall of the base portion and the second positioning wall of the pivotable portion, and is displaceable relative to the first tray in opposite directions parallel to the first direction.