Patent ID: 8757766

Claim:
An ink jet recording apparatus comprising: a carriage on which a first recording head and a second recording head are mounted; a first cap which can seal the first recording head; a first cap holder which holds the first cap; a second cap which can seal the second recording head; a slider on which the first cap holder is mounted rotatably around a rotary axis as a rotational center and on which the second cap is mounted, said slider being configured to follow the carriage and move in a moving direction of the carriage and in a direction which the caps come in to contact or separate from the recording heads; and a pressing portion fixed on an apparatus frame, wherein the first cap seals the first recording head and the second cap seals the second recording head when the carriage moves to a first position, and the second cap seals the second recording head but the first cap does not seal the first recording head when the carriage moves to a second position, and wherein when the carriage moves to the second position, the pressing portion comes into contact with the first cap holder and the first cap holder rotates around the rotary axis as a rotational center.