Image forming apparatus

摘要

An image forming apparatus includes an accommodating portion, a feeding portion for feeding recording materials from an end side of the accommodating portion, and a cartridge supporting member provided above the accommodating portion. The cartridge supporting member is movable to a mounting and demounting portion where cartridges are detachably mountable outside a main assembly of the image forming apparatus and to an image forming position where the cartridges are capable of forming the image inside the main assembly. At the image forming position, a side of the cartridge supporting member that opposes another end side of the accommodating portion in the vertical direction is lower than that of a side of the cartridge supporting member that opposes the end side of the accommodating portion.

主权项

1. An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a plurality of recording materials, said image forming apparatus comprising:
an accommodating portion for accommodating the plurality of recording materials; feeding means for feeding the recording materials from an end side of said accommodating portion; and a cartridge supporting member provided above said accommodating portion with respect to a vertical direction, wherein said cartridge supporting member is movable, in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of said feeding means, to a mounting and demounting position where a plurality of cartridges is detachably mountable outside a main assembly of said image forming apparatus and to an image forming position where the plurality of cartridges is capable of forming the image inside the main assembly, wherein at the image forming position, a side of said cartridge supporting member that opposes another end side of said accommodating portion with respect to the vertical direction is lower with respect to the vertical direction than that of a side of said cartridge supporting member that opposes the end side of said accommodating portion, and wherein when said cartridge supporting member is moved from the image forming position to the mounting and demounting position, said cartridge supporting member is moved obliquely below with respect to the vertical direction.