Sheet tray of image forming apparatus
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKeisuke Hara, Haruo Sayama
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Abstract
A foldable tray is angularly displaceably supported at an end portion of a sheet tray of a printer body so as to be angularly displaceable about a supporting shaft, which foldable tray is capable of being folded onto an upper surface side of the sheet tray and is angularly displaced downwardly from the sheet stacking position when a force which exceeds the maximum loading weight of sheets is applied to the foldable tray. Further, the sheet tray comprises a stopper for holding the foldable tray at a sheet stacking position and at a downwardly displaced position by abutting the foldable tray against the stopper.
Claims9
A sheet tray for an image forming apparatus, which is disposed at a sheet feed part or sheet discharge part of the image forming apparatus, the sheet tray comprising:
- a body;
- a second tray angularly displaceably supported on an end of the body of the sheet tray, the second tray being foldable onto an upper surface side of the sheet tray body, wherein the second tray is arranged to be angularly displaceable downwardly from a sheet stacking position when a force which exceeds a maximum loading weight of the second tray is applied to the sheet tray.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.