Sheet feeder and image forming apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
InventorsShoichi MAEDA, Masahito NIWA, Yuichi ARAKI, Yoshiki KIMURA, Misaki SURUGA
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Abstract
A sheet feeder including: a housing including a mount portion that receives recording media; an open-close portion that is disposed on an upper surface of the housing to close the mount portion and rotates about a first hinge to open or close a mount space over the mount portion; and a manual insertion portion at least part of which is disposed on the open-close portion to receive manually inserted recording media, the manual insertion portion being rotatable about the first hinge or a second hinge disposed parallel to the first hinge to rotate upward from a position where the manual insertion portion overlaps the open-close portion.
Claims20
A sheet feeder, comprising:
- a housing including a mount portion that receives recording media;
- an open-close portion that is disposed on an upper surface of the housing to close the mount portion and rotates about a first hinge to open or close a mount space over the mount portion;
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- a manual insertion portion at least part of which is disposed on the open-close portion to receive manually inserted recording media, the manual insertion portion being rotatable about the first hinge or a second hinge disposed parallel to the first hinge to rotate upward from a position where the manual insertion portion overlaps the open-close portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.