Patent attributes
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.
