Recording apparatus

Abstract

A recording apparatus includes a lower tray configured to store a recording medium, an upper tray which is provided above the lower tray and configured to store a recording medium, and a feeding roller capable of contacting each of the recording medium stored in the lower tray and the recording medium stored in the upper tray from above. The lower tray and the upper tray are attached to and detached from an apparatus body including a recording unit and the feeding roller, independently from each other.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A recording apparatus comprising:
 a recording unit configured to execute recording on a recording medium;   a lower tray configured to store a recording medium;   an upper tray which is provided above the lower tray and configured to store a recording medium; and   a feeding roller capable of contacting each of the recording medium stored in the lower tray and the recording medium stored in the upper tray from above,   wherein the lower tray and the upper tray are attached to and detached from an apparatus body including the recording unit and the feeding roller, independently from each other.   
     
     
         2 . The recording apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein in a state in which one of the lower tray and the upper tray has not been mounted to the apparatus body and the other of the lower tray and the upper tray has been mounted to the apparatus body, the recording medium is fed by the feeding roller from the other thereof. 
     
     
         3 . The recording apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the feeding roller is supported at an intermediate position, which is lower than a position of the feeding roller reached when the feeding roller contacts a bottom surface of the upper tray and higher than a position of the feeding roller reached when the feeding roller contacts a recording medium set as a top sheet in the lower tray in a state in which a maximum number of recording media are stored in the lower tray, in a state of the upper tray and the lower tray being detached from the apparatus body. 
     
     
         4 . The recording apparatus according to  claim 3 , wherein in a course of moving the upper tray to an abutting position in a mounting direction, the feeding roller is displaced upward from the intermediate position when the upper tray is moved, and subsequently the feeding roller is allowed to descend to a position at which the feeding roller contacts the recording medium stored in the upper tray. 
     
     
         5 . The recording apparatus according to  claim 3 , wherein in a course of moving the lower tray to an abutting position in a mounting direction, the support of the feeding roller at the intermediate position is released by the lower tray and the feeding roller is allowed to descend to a position at which the feeding roller contacts the recording medium stored in the lower tray. 
     
     
         6 . The recording apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising a discharged sheet-receiving tray shifting between a position in a state of being stored in the apparatus body and a position in a state of protruding from the apparatus body,
 wherein when the recording medium is fed from the upper tray or the lower tray, the discharged sheet-receiving tray is located at a position in the state of protruding from the apparatus body.