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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2011
Hiroyuki Tajima, Kitakyushu, JP;
Hiroyuki Tajima, Kitakyushu, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A medium feed device has a configuration in which a feed section is provided to send a medium in the front-and-back direction of the medium feed device, the device includes a guide member which guides the medium in the back face side of the medium feed device, the guide member is provided to be capable of being extended and contracted in a direction connecting the base end side and the free-end side of the guide member, and the guide member forms a feed pathway for the medium which is held to have a roll shape which is sent further from the back face side than the guide member, in a first state where the guide member is contracted, and forms a feed pathway for a fed medium of a single sheet shape which is sent from the guide member, in a second state where the guide member is extended.