Patent ID: 7712865

Claim:
An apparatus for transporting a medium, comprising: a transporter, operable to transport the medium in a first direction; a surface, formed with a plurality of holes; a chamber; an air flow passage disposed between the surface and the chamber and communicating the chamber with the holes; a sucking device, operable to suck air into the chamber by way of the holes and the air flow passage, so that the medium transported by the transporter and supplied onto the surface is sucked; at least one hard porous member, provided in the air flow passage at a position adapted to oppose an edge of the medium through one of the holes; and a liquid absorbing member, provided in the air flow passage and contacting a lower face of the hard porous member, wherein the hard porous member is harder than the liquid absorbing member, and wherein a part of the sucked air flows through the hard porous member and the liquid absorbing member.