Image forming apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShougo Sato
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus, including a main chassis having a discharge tray and a switchback tray in an upper position with respect to the discharge tray; an image forming unit; a discharge roller to discharge a recording sheet conveyed through the image forming unit onto the discharge tray; a duplex conveyer to invert the sheet and convey the inverted sheet to return to the image forming unit; and a switchback roller being rotatable in a normal direction to convey the sheet toward the switchback tray and a reverse direction to convey the sheet to the duplex conveyer; is provided. The main chassis includes a pair of walls, each of which extends in a vertical direction and in a conveying direction of the sheet and is arranged in adjacent to the switchback tray such that the switchback tray is interposed between the pair of walls.
Claims14
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a main chassis;
- a first discharge portion including a first discharge tray located in the main chassis, a first outlet, and a discharge roller configured to convey a recording sheet in a predetermined direction to discharge the recording sheet via the first outlet onto the first discharge tray, the first discharge tray extending in the predetermined direction, the predetermined direction being a direction including a horizontal component;
- a second discharge portion including a second discharge tray, the second discharge tray being located at a position on one side of the main chassis in the predetermined direction, the second discharge tray being pivotable between an exposing position, in which a path through which the recording sheet is conveyed is exposed, and a covering position, in which the second discharge tray covers the path such that the path is unexposed;
- a reading unit disposed above the first discharge portion, the reading unit being configured to read an image on a sheet and having a bottom surface, the bottom surface being located at an upper position with respect to the first discharge tray, the second discharge tray extending to an upper position with respect to the reading unit;
- and
- an image forming unit configured to form an image on the recording sheet.
The image forming apparatus according to 3,
- wherein the second discharge tray is configured to pivot along with the reading unit pivoting between the first position and the second position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.