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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 21, 1999
Katsuyuki Sakai, Nara, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A thermal transfer facsimile apparatus of the type having a transmitting system disposed above a recording system, which construction is compact and allows a user to open a body cover to remove a document jammed in the apparatus with no fear of damaging the document. In the apparatus, a part of an ink-ribbon cartridge serves as a lower guide for supporting a document to be transported, while a part of the body cover, to which a platen and rollers for feeding and delivering recording paper are attached, also serves as a lower guide for the document. When a body cover is opened to replace an ink ribbon with new one or remove a document jammed in the apparatus, a distance formed between a document feeding roller fixed to the body and a lower free end of the body cover is so elongated by virtue of the existence of the guiding part of the cartridge that document may be gently curved and stretched therebetween without being damaged. This can also assure a compact design of the apparatus.