Paper feed tray
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsTakashi Toda, Hiroyoshi Ogawa
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Abstract
All the constituent members of a tray 1, for example, a side guide 30, a paper separating claw 50, a tray body 10, a drawing handle member 70, a member for regulating an end guide 40, and a holding member for holding a retard roll 60 each have a snap-fit structure. Therefore, the assembling and disassembling of the tray can be easily performed. The tray is formed only from members that enable all the steps of processes of assembling and disassembling the tray to be performed from the same direction without changing the orientation of the tray.
Claims16
A paper feed tray comprising:
- a casing;
- a paper loading plate for loading paper thereon, the paper loading plate provided on a bottom portion of the casing;
- a side guide for regulating a side portion of a sheet of paper;
- an end guide for determining a position of a tail edge of a sheet of paper;
- a paper separating member for separating paper sheet by sheet;
- a casing attaching/detaching handle;
- an operation tab attached to the side guide for regulating the paper separating member;
- and
- a catching portion for catching the paper separating member, the catching portion formed between the side guide and the operation tab.
A paper feed tray comprising:
- a tray body;
- a drawer handle member provided on the tray body, for attaching/detaching the tray body to/from an image forming apparatus, the drawer handle member constituting a part of an exterior cover of the image forming apparatus;
- and
- a fixing member having an elastic piece and an engaged portion,
- wherein the elastic piece is elastically deformable, has an engaging portion, and is provided on one of the tray body and the drawer handle member;
- the engaged portion and is provided on the other thereof;
- the tray body and the drawer handle member comprise at least two constituent members;
- the engaging portion and the engaged portion is engaged with each other to fix the tray body and the drawer handle member to each other.
A paper feed tray comprising:
- a tray body;
- a drawer handle member provided on the tray body, for attaching/detaching the tray body to/from an image forming apparatus and, the drawer handle member constituting a part of an exterior cover of the image forming apparatus;
- a fixing member for fixing the tray body and the drawer handle member to each other, provided on one of the tray body and the handle drawer member;
- an arm member having a plate-like shape, being elastically deformable, and extending in a direction in which the tray body is attached to and detached from the image forming apparatus;
- a fixing portion for positioning and fixing the arm member, provided on the other thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.