Drying device and image forming system
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorHiroaki Tsuchiya
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Abstract
A drying device (120) includes a liftable and lowerable conveying unit (40) which conveys a sheet on which ink is ejected, along a conveyance path (34); a liftable and lowerable drying unit (50) which faces the conveyance path (34) and dries the ink by heat; a lifting and lowering mechanism (60) capable of lowering a lower unit, which is a unit provided below among the conveying unit (40) and the drying unit (50), by gravity acting on the lower unit and lifting an upper unit, which is a unit provided above among the conveying unit (40) and the drying unit (50), to open the conveyance path (34); and a restriction mechanism (70) which restricts a lowering of the lower unit.
Claims13
A drying device comprising:
- a liftable and lowerable conveying unit which conveys a sheet on which ink is ejected, along a conveyance path;
- a liftable and lowerable drying unit which faces the conveyance path and dries the ink by heat;
- a lifting and lowering mechanism capable of lowering a lower unit, which is a unit provided below among the conveying unit and the drying unit, by gravity acting on the lower unit and lifting an upper unit, which is a unit provided above among the conveying unit and the drying unit, to open the conveyance path;
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- a restriction mechanism which restricts lowering of the lower unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.