Patent ID: 8079699

Claim:
An image recording apparatus, comprising: a conveyance mechanism having a circumferential wall having thereon a plurality of suction holes for communicating an internal space inside the circumferential wall with the outside of the circumferential wall, the conveyance mechanism being structured to convey, with rotation of the circumferential wall, a recording medium placed on an outer circumferential surface of the circumferential wall; a suction unit which sucks the air in the internal space to create an air flow from the outside of the circumferential wall to the internal space via the suction holes; a supply mechanism which supplies, at a supply position, a recording medium to the outer circumferential surface; a record head disposed to face the outer circumferential surface, which records an image on the recording medium conveyed on the outer circumferential surface by the conveyance mechanism; an ejection path branched off from the outer circumferential surface at a separating position which is a position at a most downstream position of the record head or a position further from the supply position than the most downstream position from the supply position, the ejection path being structured to pass therethrough an image-recorded recording medium to be ejected on the outer circumferential surface; and a blocker disposed in the internal space, which successively faces and blocks an inner opening of at least one of the suction holes having reached the separating position with the rotation of the circumferential wall.