US 2018/0009624 A1Published application

Sheet processing apparatus

AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsHiroyuki TAKI, Yasunobu TERAO

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Abstract

According to an embodiment, a sheet processing apparatus includes a transport unit and a holding unit. The transport unit transports a first sheet to a first position. The transport unit transports a second sheet, which is transported after the first sheet, to a second position displaced to the upstream side of a sheet transport direction relative to the first position. The transport unit transports a third sheet, which is transported after the second sheet, to a third position displaced to the downstream side of the sheet transport direction relative to the second position. In the case where the second sheet is transported to the second position, the holding unit holds the first sheet at the first position. In the case where the third sheet is transported to the third position, the holding unit holds the second sheet at the second position.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A sheet processing apparatus, comprising:

a tray that holds a first sheet, a second sheet and a third sheet, which are fed sequentially thereon;
a transport device that transports the first sheet, the second sheet and the third sheet onto the tray via a transport path;
and
a controller that controls the transport device to
transport the first sheet to a first position in the transport path,
hold the first sheet at the first position until transportation of the third sheet has started,
transport the second sheet onto the first sheet held at the first position,
transport the second sheet transported onto the first sheet to a second position in the transport path while the first sheet is being held at the first position,
hold the second sheet at the second position in a state of being superimposed on the first sheet held at the first position until transportation of the third sheet has started,
transport the third sheet onto the second sheet held at the second position,
transport the third sheet transported onto the second sheet to a third position to be in a state of being superimposed on the second sheet held at the second position, and
after transporting the third sheet to the third position, transport the first sheet, the second sheet and the third sheet together onto the tray while they are superimposed on each other, and
wherein the second position is an upstream side of the first position and the third position in a sheet transport direction toward the tray.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/714,995Filed 25 Sep 2017
Priority: JP 2015-10585925 May 2015
Published: 11 Jan 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification22 codes

B65H 37/04
Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating devices for performing specified auxiliary operations: for securing together articles or webs,…
B65H 29/145
And introducing into a pile: the pile being formed between the two, or between the two sets of, tapes or bands or rollers
B65H 29/52
Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles: stationary guides or smoothers
B65H 31/26
Pile receivers: auxiliary devices for retaining articles in the pile

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