Image forming apparatus
AssigneeMinolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasatoki Sutou
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus having a feed section being positioned at the front of the apparatus, a sheet discharging section being positioned above the feed section and a work table being attached to the front of the apparatus in a position above the sheet discharging section. The work table has a rotatable portion which is positioned above the feed section, and which is formed with an opening for taking out the sheet discharged from the discharging section. A support member is provided between the discharging section and the opening for supporting image-transferered sheets. When the rotatable portion is opened upwardly, the work table does not hinder the sheet supplementing work of the operator for the feed section.
Claims6
An image forming apparatus having a work table at the front side thereof, comprising:
- means for forming an image on a sheet;
- feed means which accomodates therein in a stacked state a plurality of sheets to be fed to said image forming means, said feed means being positioned under said work table;
- means for discharging the sheet with the image formed thereon, said discharge means being positioned between said work table and said feed means;
- said work table having an upwardly rotatable portion, said rotatable portion being formed with an opening for taking out the sheet discharged from said discharge means;
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- means for supporting the sheet discharged from said discharge means, said sheet supporting means being positioned between said discharge means and said rotatable portion of the work table.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.