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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2007
Masamitsu Shimazu, Matsumoto, JP;
Yutaka Nakamura, Okaya, JP;
Masamitsu Shimazu, Matsumoto, JP;
Yutaka Nakamura, Okaya, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A recording material mounting face portion on which recording materials are stacked for being fed, a body slide portion that is attached to the recording material mounting face portion so as to be slidable in a widthwise direction or in a feeding direction of the recording material, a movable edge guide that includes a body operating portion having a guide face that contacts a side of the recording material while being fed and a fixing means that fixes a position of the movable edge guide in a slide direction of the movable edge guide are provided, wherein the fixing means includes notch columns that are provided on a surface of the recording material mounting face portion along the slide direction of the movable edge guide and engaging protrusions that are provided on the movable edge guide and that engage notches of the notch columns to realize the fixed state, wherein a plurality of the notch columns are formed, each of the notch columns is formed to have the notches at the same pitch, wherein the engaging protrusions are provided separately for the respective notch columns, while the engaging protrusions are located at the same position in the slide direction, and wherein it is configured according to any one of a combination in which at least two of the notch columns are offset in phase and a combination in which all of the notch columns are the same in phase and at least two of the engaging protrusions are offset in position in the slide direction.
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