Feeding apparatus for feeding sheet-shaped medium, and using apparatus for using sheet-shaped medium
AssigneeFUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
InventorShoichi Maeda
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Abstract
A feeding apparatus for feeding a sheet-shaped medium includes: a stacking plate on which sheet-shaped media are stacked; a suction transport belt that is disposed above the stacking plate and causes a topmost one of the stacked sheet-shaped media to be sucked onto a belt lower surface and then rotates to carry out the topmost sheet-shaped medium to a destination; and a surrounding member that is provided in a hanging-down manner at least at left and right positions in a carrying-out direction around the suction transport belt so as to be movable up and down, surrounds a space below the belt lower surface, and is moved upward by contact with the sheet-shaped medium that is being sucked.
Claims18
A feeding apparatus for feeding a sheet-shaped medium comprising:
- a stacking plate on which sheet-shaped media are stacked;
- a suction transport belt that is disposed above the stacking plate and causes a topmost one of the stacked sheet-shaped media to be sucked onto a belt lower surface and then rotates to carry out the topmost sheet-shaped medium to a destination;
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- a surrounding member that is provided in a hanging-down manner at least at left and right positions in a carrying-out direction around the suction transport belt so as to be movable up and down, surrounds a space below the belt lower surface, and is moved upward by contact with the sheet-shaped medium that is sucked upward and not supported by the stacking plate, wherein
- the suction transport belt is disposed so that a portion, on a downstream side in the carrying-out direction, of the belt lower surface onto which the sheet-shaped medium is sucked protrudes toward a downstream side in the carrying-out direction beyond ends of the stacked sheet-shaped media on a downstream side in the carrying-out direction;
- the surrounding member includes at least the left and right surrounding members;
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- the left and right surrounding members are provided in peripheral positions around a portion of the suction transport belt that faces an upper surface of the stacked sheet-shaped media except for a peripheral position around the protruding portion of the suction transport belt.
A feeding apparatus for feeding a sheet-shaped medium comprising:
- a stacking plate on which sheet-shaped media are stacked;
- a suction transport belt that is disposed above the stacking plate and causes a topmost one of the stacked sheet-shaped media to be sucked onto a belt lower surface and then rotates to carry out the topmost sheet-shaped medium to a destination;
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- a surrounding member that is provided in a hanging-down manner at least at left and right positions in a carrying-out direction around the suction transport belt so as to be movable up and down, surrounds a space below the belt lower surface, and is moved upward by contact with the sheet-shaped medium that is sucked upward and not supported by the stacking plate, wherein
- the suction transport belt is disposed so that the belt lower surface faces an inner portion of an upper surface of the stacked sheet-shaped media;
- the surrounding member includes at least the left and right surrounding members;
- the suction transport belt is disposed so that the belt lower surface becomes an inclined surface whose end in a downstream side in the carrying-out direction is relatively high;
- the surrounding member includes at least the left and right surrounding members and a downstream surrounding member;
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- the left and right surrounding members are disposed so that at least parts of ends thereof on a downstream side in the carrying-out direction protrude toward a downstream side in the carrying-out direction relative to the downstream surrounding member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.