Conveying device and printing apparatus
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsKohki Asada, Masato Ogawa, Natsuki Sugiyama
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Abstract
A conveying device includes a blower and a conveyor. The blower blows air to a sheet material. The conveyor conveys the sheet material through a blowing region of the blower. The conveyor includes a surface movable member and a presser. The surface movable member conveys the sheet material with movement of a surface of the surface movable member, with a back side of the sheet material supported with the surface movable member. The presser presses at least a portion of a leading end of the sheet material toward the surface movable member in at least an area from a position upstream from the blowing region in a conveyance direction of the sheet material to a position in the blowing region of the blower.
Claims22
A conveying device comprising:
- a blower to blow air to a sheet material;
- and
- a conveyor to convey the sheet material through a blowing region of the blower,
- the conveyor including:
- a conveyance belt to convey the sheet material with movement of a surface of the conveyance belt with a back side of the sheet material supported with the conveyance belt;
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- a presser to press at least a portion of a leading end of the sheet material toward the conveyance belt in at least an area from a position upstream from the blowing region in a conveyance direction of the sheet material to a position in the blowing region of the blower, and
- a width of the conveyance belt in a direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction of the sheet material is greater than a width of the sheet material in the direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction of the sheet material.
A conveying device comprising:
- a blower to blow air to a sheet material;
- and
- a conveyor to convey the sheet material through a blowing region of the blower,
- the conveyor including:
- a conveyance belt to convey the sheet material with movement of a surface of the conveyance belt, with a back side of the sheet material supported with the conveyance belt;
- and
- a presser to press at least a portion of a trailing end of the sheet material toward the conveyance belt, in an area from a position in the blowing region to a position downstream from the blowing region in a conveyance direction of the sheet material, and
- a width of the conveyance belt in a direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction of the sheet material is greater than a width of the sheet material in the direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction of the sheet material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.