Label peeling device
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKikuo Mizutani
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, a label peeling device includes a tray, a pressing unit, and a control unit. The tray is configured to support a label sheet thereon. The pressing unit is configured to be driven in a direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the label sheet. The control unit is configured to drive the pressing unit toward a central portion of the label sheet supported on the tray. The control unit performs peeling control to peel a liner sheet and a label body of the label sheet from each other by pressing an edge of the label sheet and thereby curving the label sheet.
Claims19
A post-processing apparatus, comprising:
- a sheet conveyance path having an entrance and an exit and configured to permit a label sheet to be conveyed in a sheet conveyance direction along the sheet conveyance path from the entrance to the exit;
- a guide along the sheet conveyance path to move in a direction perpendicular to the sheet conveyance direction;
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- a control circuit configured to move the guide to align the label sheet in the direction perpendicular to the sheet conveyance direction and to move the guide toward a central portion of the label sheet while the label sheet is on the sheet conveyance path to peel a label body from the label sheet.
An image forming system, comprising:
- an image forming apparatus;
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- a post-processing apparatus including:
- a sheet conveyance path having an entrance and an exit and configured to permit a label sheet to be conveyed in a sheet conveyance direction along the sheet conveyance path from the entrance to the exit;
- a guide along the sheet conveyance path to move the label sheet in a direction perpendicular to the sheet conveyance direction;
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- a control circuit configured to move the guide to align the label sheet in the direction perpendicular to the sheet conveyance direction and to move the guide toward a central portion of the label sheet while the label sheet is on the sheet conveyance path to peel a label body from the label sheet.
A method of peeling a label body from a label sheet in a post-processing apparatus, comprising:
- supplying a label sheet from an image forming apparatus to an entrance of a sheet conveyance path of a post-processing apparatus;
- positioning a guide that is along the sheet conveyance path to position the label sheet in a direction perpendicular to a sheet conveyance direction, the sheet conveyance direction extending along the sheet conveyance path from the entrance to an exit of the sheet conveyance path;
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- moving the guide in the direction perpendicular to the sheet conveyance direction toward a central portion of the label sheet to cause a label body to peel from the label sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.