Recording apparatus

1. A recording apparatus comprising:

a recording unit that performs a recording operation on a sent recording medium;

a main body that has the recording unit;

a discharge stacker that places the recording medium discharged from the main body therein; and

a flexible member that forms a lateral closed region by connecting a downstream end in a discharge direction of the discharge stacker and the main body on the upper side of the downstream end in the discharge direction of the discharge stacker in a placing direction.

2. A recording apparatus comprising:

a recording unit that performs a recording operation on a sent recording medium;

a main body that has the recording unit;

a discharge stacker that places the recording medium discharged from the main body therein; and

a flexible member that connects a downstream end in a discharge direction of the discharge stacker and the main body on the upper side of the downstream end in the discharge direction of the discharge stacker in a placing direction in a state in which the flexible member is loosened so as not to come into contact with a surface on which the recording apparatus is installed.

3. A recording apparatus comprising:

a recording unit that performs a recording operation on a sent recording medium;

a main body that has the recording unit;

a discharge stacker that places the recording medium discharged from the main body therein; and

a flexible member that connects a downstream end in a discharge direction of the discharge stacker and the main body on the upper side of the downstream end in the discharge direction of the discharge stacker in a placing direction,

wherein as the recording medium is discharged, a tip end of the recording medium that has run off the downstream end in the discharge direction of the discharge stacker comes into contact with the flexible member and is guided toward the main body by the flexible member.

4. The recording apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the discharge stacker pivots about a pivot shaft installed on an upstream side of the downstream end in the discharge direction of the discharge stacker and wherein the discharge stacker has a first position taken during a storage of the recording apparatus and a second position where the recording medium that has been discharged from the main body is placed.

5. The recording apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the flexible member is a string-like material.

6. The recording apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein opposite ends of the string-like material engage with the main body and a middle portion of the string-like material engages with the downstream end in the discharge direction of the discharge stacker at a widthwise middle portion of the downstream end.

7. The recording apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the discharge stacker has a first inclined portion that is inclined so as to displace toward the upper side along the placing direction as it goes from an upstream side to a downstream side at the downstream end in the discharge direction of the discharge stacker.

8. The recording apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the discharge stacker is provided at a lower side of the main body in a vertical direction and has a second inclined portion that is inclined so as to displace to a vertically lower side as it goes toward a downstream side in the discharge direction of the discharge stacker between the main body and the discharge stacker.

9. The recording apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the second inclined portion has a first sheet-like member and a plurality of second members extending toward the discharge direction of the recording medium, being disposed in the widthwise direction of the recording medium, and having a frictional coefficient smaller than that of the first member in an upper side of a placing direction of the first member.