Patent ID: 7413183

Claim:
An image recording apparatus comprising: a main body; a sheet-supply cassette configured to accommodate a stack of recording sheets and which is insertable into and removable from the main body in a sheet-supply direction in which the recording sheets are configured to be supplied from the sheet-supply cassette, the sheet-supply cassette including an end wall which is disposed at a downstream end of the sheet-supply cassette in the sheet-supply direction, so as to extend in a direction perpendicular to the sheet-supply direction; an image recording unit disposed in the main body for recording an image on the recording sheets; an arm disposed in the main body and pivotable about a shaft which extends in the direction perpendicular to the sheet-supply direction; a sheet-feed roller which is disposed at a free end of the arm and which is, in a state in which the sheet-supply cassette is inserted into the main body, configured to be in contact with an uppermost one of the recording sheets accommodated in the sheet-supply cassette and which is configured to feed the uppermost one of the recording sheets toward the image recording unit; and a link mechanism which is disposed in the main body for raising and lowering the sheet-feed roller and the arm and which engages the end wall at the downstream end to retract the sheet-feed roller and the arm above the sheet-supply cassette when the sheet-supply cassette is inserted into and removed from the main body.