LAMINATING APPARATUS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a laminating apparatus which prevents appearance of a wrinkle or a "streak" in a resin layer formed on the surface of a recording medium and thus can form the resin layer of a high grade. SOLUTION: The part of an external cover 56 located on the upstream side in the direction of an arrow A is disposed on the upstream side from a heat fixing roll couple 52 in the carrying direction. The end portion 56a of this part is positioned right above an insertion opening 58. A member 10 for lamination being inserted from the insertion opening 58 is pushed down from above by the end portion 56a. A guide member 70 guiding the member 10 for lamination in the direction of carriage is disposed at a position a prescribed space apart from the end portion 56a toward the upstream side in the direction of carriage. The guide member 70 has a guide plate 72 so formed as to be slant downward toward the insertion opening 58 from obliquely above the opening 58. The top portion 72a of the guide plate 72 pushes up the member 10 for lamination inserted from the insertion opening 58, from below the member. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO