Patent ID: 8899706

Claim:
A recording apparatus, comprising: a first casing; a second casing connected to the first casing with a shaft and pivotable about the shaft with respect to the first casing in a pivotal direction having a vertical component so as to be located at (i) a close position which is close to the first casing and at which an image is recorded on a recording medium and (ii) a distant position farther from the first casing than the close position; a tank mount portion on which a tank storing a recording agent for recording the image on the recording medium is mountable, the tank mount portion being fixed to the second casing so as to be pivotable together with the second casing; a force-applying portion configured to be switchable between a first state in which the force-applying portion applies a force to the second casing to limit the pivotal movement of the second casing located at the close position and a second state in which the force-applying portion does not apply the force to the second casing located at the close position; and a controller configured to perform: a judging processing in which the controller is configured to judge whether a tank mount state, which is a mount state of the tank with respect to the tank mount portion, is a middle-of-mounting state in which the tank is being mounted on the tank mount portion; and a switching processing in which the controller is configured to: switch the state of the force-applying portion to the first state when the controller judges in the judging processing that the tank is in the middle-of-mounting state, and switch the state of the force-applying portion to the second state when the controller judges in the judging processing that the tank is not in the middle-of-mounting state.