Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Feed apparatus and image recording apparatus
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Application No.: US14501585Application Date: 2014-09-30
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Publication No.: US09637334B2Publication Date: 2017-05-02
- Inventor: Yuta Uchino
- Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-Shi, Aichi-Ken
- Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-Shi, Aichi-Ken
- Agency: Merchant & Gould P.C.
- Priority: JP2013-255911 20131211
- Main IPC: B65H3/06
- IPC: B65H3/06 ; B65H1/02 ; B65H3/54 ; B65H3/66

Abstract:
There is provided a feed apparatus including a support unit having a support surface, a feed roller, a first arm to support the feed roller, a recess portion on the support surface, a second arm swingable, with a side of the one end as a swing shaft, between a first position at which the other end of the second arm is in the recess portion and a second position at which the other end is outside the recess portion; and a biasing member. In a case that the second arm is the first position, a guide surface of the second arm is positioned on an upstream side of the feed roller in the feed direction and in a case that the second arm is the second position, the other end of the second arm is positioned on a downstream side of the feed roller in the feed direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150158684A1 FEED APPARATUS AND IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2015-06-11
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