Structure of portable electronic apparatus

Claim 1

An electronic apparatus comprising: a body having a front portion, a rear portion, an upper face and sidewalls extending from said front portion to said rear portion for defining a housing therebetween, a socket is provided in one sidewall and is positioned adjacent to said rear portion; a keyboard located on the upper face of said body and being positioned adjacent to said front portion of said body; a cover, having an inner face and leg members, said leg members being pivotably mounted on said sidewalls of said body for covering and protecting said keyboard when said cover is in a closed position; a display located on the inner face of said cover; a paper feed device having a retractable rotatable paper feed handle positioned within the socket of said body during a nonoperational mode and extendable from said socket and manually manipulated for paper feeding during an operational mode; said paper feed device comprises: a paper feeding roller having two ends and a roller axis; a rod, having two ends, colinear with said paper feeding roller axis with one end operatively connected to and extending from one end of said paper feeding roller; a boss operatively attached to the other end of said rod, said boss including a pin extending from said boss and substantially perpendicular to the feeding roller axis, said boss including a hole substantially perpendicular to said feeding roller axis in which a spring and a ball are positioned with said spring biasing said ball from said hole in said boss; said retractable rotatable paper feed handle including a hollow shaft in which said boss is slidably received, the hollow shaft including a groove into which said pin of said boss is received constituting stops for said pin, the hollow shaft including two holes into which alternatively said ball can be biased constituting a click mechanism for substantially retaining said retractable rotatable paper feed handle in either a retracted nonoperational mode or an extended operational mode.