Patent ID: 7686420

Claim:
An ink jet recording apparatus, comprising: a carriage for performing reciprocation in a moving direction with a mounted recording head, which discharges ink to perform recording on a recording medium in a recording region; a slider which mounts a wiper for wiping the recording head, and is movable following the motion of the carriage; and a locking lever which is attached to a first side end portion of the slider which is closer to the recording region than a second side end portion in the moving direction and is used for locking the slider in a wiping position where the wiper wipes the recording head, wherein the locking lever regulates a position of the slider by locking the slider onto a base surface of an apparatus main body so as to fix the slider at a predetermined height relative to the base surface when the slider has moved to the wiping position with the locking lever being in a locking position, wherein the locking lever moves between the locking position which is capable of contacting with the base surface and a release position which is incapable of contacting with the base surface, and the locking lever moves to the locking position from the release position by being urged by the carriage as the carriage moves toward the slider from the recording region, and moves to the release position from the locking position by being urged by the carriage as the carriage moves toward the recording region from the wiping position, and wherein the locking lever is rotatable with a rotational shaft extending along the moving direction between the release position and the locking position.