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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 1991
Filed:
Sep. 14, 1990
Hideo Yoshihara, Kasugai, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
An image recording apparatus having a sheet slack absorbing means pivotally movable between first and second positions. In the first position, a dancer roller of the sheet slack absorbing means is in contact with a microcapsule layer of the microcapsule sheet for absorbing sheet slack during exposure operation. In the second position, the dancer roller is out of contact with the microcapsule sheet. The second position is provided at a non-operative state of the apparatus, or at the standby state thereof. The second position is also provided for directing a leader portion of the microcapsule sheet toward a takeup shaft. In this case, the dancer roller serves as a guide means for guiding travel of the leader portion. The second position is further provided when unexposed zone of the microcapsule sheet is reversely fed to the upstream side of an exposure stand for a next exposure operation.