Mounting device and a recording apparatus including the same
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorToshimitsu Hirakue
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Abstract
A recording apparatus includes a mounting unit for mounting a discharged sheet material, elastic guide members capable of being curved/restored in order to receive end portions of the sheet material in the direction of the width being discharged onto the mounting unit, and pressing members for providing/releasing a pressing force for the elastic guide members. The sheet material being discharged onto the mounting unit is held by curved portions of the elastic guide members when the elastic guide members are curved, and the holding of the sheet material is released when the elastic guide members return to their restored state so that the sheet material drops into the mounting unit.
Claims20
A mounting device comprising:
- mounting means for mounting a discharged sheet material;
- elastic guide means attached to said mounting means for receiving a side edge of a discharged sheet material, said elastic guide means being deformable between a protruded state and a restored state;
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- pressing means for providing and releasing a pressing force against said elastic guide means so as to press said elastic guide means to the protruded state and to release said elastic guide means to the restored state,
- wherein the sheet material being discharged onto said mounting means is held above said mounting means by protruded portions of said elastic guide means when said elastic guide means are in the protruded state, and the holding of the sheet material is released when said elastic guide means is returned to the restored state.
A recording apparatus comprising:
- recording means for recording on a recording medium;
- conveying means for conveying the recording medium on which recording has been performed from said recording means and for discharging from said apparatus the recording medium;
- mounting means for mounting the discharged recording medium;
- elastic guide means attached to said mounting means for receiving a side edge of a discharged sheet material, said elastic guide means being deformable between a protruded state and a restored state;
- and
- pressing means for providing and releasing a pressing force against said elastic guide means so as to press said elastic guide means to the protruded state and to release said elastic guide means to the restored state,
- wherein the sheet material being discharged onto said mounting means is held above said mounting means by protruded portions of said elastic guide means when said elastic guide means are in the protruded state, and the holding of the sheet material is released when said elastic guide means is returned to the restored state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.