Sheet supply apparatus
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorHaruhiko Horiuchi
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Abstract
A sheet supply apparatus includes a supply portion with a sheet bundle supplied via an opening portion, a take-out portion to move the sheet bundle supplied to the supply portion to a take-out position and take out sheets one by one starting from a sheet on an uppermost surface of the sheet bundle, a first door with the opening portion arranged openably which is opened when the sheet bundle is supplied to the supply portion, a second door arranged openably on a middle position when the sheet bundle supplied to the supply portion moves to the take-out position, and a controller to control the first door and second door to open or close.
Claims17
A sheet supply apparatus comprising:
- a supply portion with a sheet bundle supplied via an opening portion;
- a take-out portion to move the sheet bundle supplied to the supply portion to a take-out position and take out the sheets one by one starting from a sheet on an uppermost surface of the sheet bundle;
- a first door with the opening portion arranged openably to be opened when the sheet bundle is supplied to the supply portion;
- a second door arranged openably on a middle position when the sheet bundle supplied to the supply portion moves to the take-out position;
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- a controller to control the first door and the second door to open or close.
A sheet supply method comprising:
- supplying a sheet bundle to a supply portion with a first door opened and loading the sheet bundle on a carrier;
- opening a second door closed and ensuring a movement path of the carrier;
- moving the carrier with the sheet bundle loaded to a take-out portion along the movement path;
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- closing the first door.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.