Patent ID: 8079698

Claim:
An inkjet recording apparatus comprising: a feeding device which feeds a recording medium along a feed path passing through a removing area and extending along an opposingly-feeding surface facing upward, the removing area being located under the opposingly-feeding surface and within the opposingly-feeding surface as seen in a vertical direction; a remover which removes foreign matter from a surface of the recording medium during the recording medium is fed through the removing area by the feeding device; an inkjet head disposed downstream of the remover with respect to a feeding direction in which the recording medium is fed, the inkjet head having an ink ejection surface in which a nozzle is open, an ink droplet being ejected from the nozzle toward a recording surface of the recording medium while the recording medium is fed along at least a part of the opposingly-feeding surface which part is opposed to the ink ejection surface; and a medium supply device which sequentially supplies a topmost recording medium from a stack of recording media, the medium supply device comprises a medium holder which accommodates the stack of recording media, and wherein the recording surface from which the remover removes the foreign matters is an upper surface of the topmost recoding medium from the stack of recording media, wherein the feeding device comprises: at least one primary feeder belt which feeds the recording medium to a recording area with the recording medium held on an outer circumferential surface of the primary feeder belt which functions as a feeding surface, the recording medium being opposed to the ink ejection surface of the inkjet head at the recording area; and an intermediate feeder belt which receives the recording medium from the medium supply device onto an outer circumferential surface thereof which functions as a feeding surface, and feeds the recording medium with the recording medium held on the feeding surface of the intermediate feeder belt, the intermediate feeder belt then giving the recording medium to the primary feeder belt, and wherein the remover comprises a remover roller an outer circumferential surface of which has a tackiness and contacts a downwardly-facing portion of the feeding surface of one of the at least one primary feeder belt such that the remover roller rotates with circulation of the at least one feeder belt.