Abstract: A pressure developing device having a pair of pressure developing rollers in an image recording apparatus. A pressure-sensitive recording sheet can be fed to pass between the pressure developing rollers, and has a pressure-sensitive image bearing layer on one surface thereof. A developer sheet can selectively be fed to pass between the pressure developing rollers in superposed relation to the pressure-sensitive image bearing layer. The pressure developing rollers are spaced from each other by a gap which is greater than the thickness of the pressure-sensitive sheet and smaller than the combined thickness of the pressure-sensitive sheet and the developer sheet. The pressure developing device also includes a friction roller held against a surface of the pressure-sensitive recording sheet opposite to the image bearing layer and rotatable for frictionally feeding the pressure-sensitive recording sheet.

Abstract: An image recording sheet, such as a developer sheet, is fed so as to overlap a light-exposed sheet, such as a photosensitive pressure-sensitive sheet which carries an image recorded thereon. The image is transferred from the exposed sheet to the image recording sheet at a pressure developing unit. The image recording sheet is delivered to cause a leading end thereof to abut the exposed sheet, while being fed into the developing unit at a position near an inlet of the developing unit for allowing the image recording sheet to move along and with the exposed sheet into the developing unit. A device for feeding an image recording sheet is an image recording apparatus, said image recording apparatus including an exposure unit for light-exposure to said sheet for forming the latent image, and a pressure developing unit disposed at downstream side of the exposed unit at which the light-exposed sheet and the image recording sheet are overlappingly pressed.