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AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTatsuya Shinkawa, Shinichi Azumi, Yuhi Akagawa, Nobuyuki Kimoto
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A recording medium discharge mechanism is provided with a side wall member capable of changing position between an upright state in which small size sheets are caught when small size sheets are discharged and a laid flat state in which a placement surface of a discharge space is extended for placement of large size sheets when large size sheets are discharged by a discharge mechanism having the discharge space, whose downstream side in a paper discharge direction has been opened. In the upright state, the side wall member does not protrude laterally from an apparatus. Furthermore, in the laid flat state, large size sheets can be placed.
A recording medium discharge mechanism provided with a discharge space that is positioned between an original capturing portion arranged in a device upper portion and a feeding portion arranged in a device lower portion and that opens laterally to a downstream side in a recording medium discharge direction,
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