Recording device
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsYuji MISAWA, Toshihiro IMAE
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Abstract
A recording device has: a recording head configured to perform recording on a medium; a medium storage below the recording head configured to store the medium to be recoded; a supply path comprising a first curved supply path curved so as to be convex upward and transporting the medium fed out of the medium storage in a reversed direction via the first curved supply path; and a reversing path comprising a second curved path curved so as to be convex downward and transporting the recorded medium into a direction including a vertically upward component via second curved path from a direction including a vertically downward component; wherein the supply path joins the reversing path, and the first curved path and the second curved path overlap when viewed horizontally.
Claims13
A recording device comprising:
- a recording head configured to perform recording on a medium by discharging a liquid to the medium;
- at least one medium storage configured to store the medium to be recorded, the medium storage positioned vertically below the recording head;
- an effluent storage that holds an effluent discharged from the recording head, the effluent storage being disposed between the recording head and the medium storage in the vertical direction;
- a recording-time transport path that passes through a position which faces the recording head;
- a supply path comprising a first curved supply path curved so as to be convex upward and transporting the medium fed out of the medium storage in a direction including a component in a direction opposite to a direction in which the medium is fed out of the medium storage via the first curved supply path;
- and
- a reversing path comprising a second curved path curved so as to be convex downward and transporting the recorded medium into a direction including a vertically upward component via second curved path from a direction including a vertically downward component;
- wherein
- the reversing path joins the recording-time transport path,
- the supply path joins the reversing path which joins the recording-time transport path, and
- at least a part of the effluent storage is located below a lower end of the second curve path in the vertical direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.