Patent ID: 6920306

Claim:
An image recording equipment for recording an image of information such as written and/or pictorial information on sheets of recording medium, said image recording equipment comprising: recording means for recording an image on said sheet of recording medium by means of laser exposure; sheet feeding means for feeding said sheets of recording medium one by one toward said recording means; sheet carrying means disposed between said recording means and said sheet feeding means for carrying said sheet of recording medium from said sheet feeding means to said recording means; and an adhesive roller incorporated in one of said image recording means, said sheet feeding means and said sheet carrying means so that said adhesive roller is brought into contact with a surface of said sheet of recording medium moving to said one of image recording means, said sheet feeding means and said sheet carrying means so as thereby to remove extraneous matter on said sheet of recording medium; wherein said adhesive roller keeps in contact with said sheet of recording medium with contact pressure that is axially distributed in a concave axial distribution pattern in which said contact pressure is higher at opposite extreme end positions of said adhesive roller than at a middle position of said adhesive roller.