Container housing device and inkjet recording apparatus
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorSusumu Hanano
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Abstract
A container housing device includes a device main body, a plurality of container housing portions, and a plurality of cover members. The plurality of container housing portions have openings adjacently juxtaposed in an up-down direction along a side surface of the device main body and each house an ink container filled with ink. The plurality of cover members are mounted to the device main body so as to be able to open and close the openings. Each of the cover members includes an inclined part inclined, in a downward direction toward a lower end thereof, from an outer side toward an inner side of a corresponding one of the container housing portions.
Claims4
A container housing device, comprising:
- a device main body;
- a plurality of container housing portions that have openings adjacently juxtaposed in an up-down direction along a side surface of the device main body and each house an ink container filled with ink;
- and
- a plurality of cover members that are mounted to the device main body so as to be able to open and close the openings,
- wherein
- each of the plurality of cover members includes an inclined part inclined, in a downward direction toward a lower end thereof, from an outer side toward an inner side of a corresponding one of the plurality of container housing portions,
- each of the plurality of container housing portions includes:
- a tray in which the ink container is loaded;
- a slide rail that holds the tray so that the tray is slidable in an insertion direction and a pull-out direction thereof;
- and
- a joint that is provided at an end of an ink tube extending from inside the device main body and is connected to a cap functioning as an ink outflow port of the ink container, and
- the joint is arranged on an inner side of and adjacently to each of the plurality of cover members.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.