Sheet handling apparatus and sheet handling method
AssigneeGlory Ltd.
InventorYuji SHIMODAIRA
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Abstract
A sheet handling apparatus configured to feed sheets from outside into the sheet handling apparatus, transport the fed sheets in a storage area which is outside of a storage bag in the sheet handling apparatus and store the transported sheets in the storage bag includes: a holder configured to be capable of detachably holding the storage bag; a pushing member configured to push a plurality of sheets transported in the storage area into the storage bag through the opening of the storage bag; and a pressing member configured to press the sheets stored in the storage bag held by the holder.
Claims11
A sheet handling apparatus configured to feed sheets from outside into the sheet handling apparatus, transport the fed sheets in a storage area which is outside of a storage bag in the sheet handling apparatus and store the transported sheets in the storage bag through an opening of the storage bag, comprising:
- a holder configured to be capable of detachably holding the storage bag;
- a pushing member configured to push a plurality of sheets transported in the storage area into the storage bag through the opening of the storage bag;
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- a pressing member configured to press the sheets stored in the storage bag held by the holder.
A sheet handling method of storing sheets, which have been fed from outside into a sheet handling apparatus and transported in a storage area which is outside of a storage bag in the sheet handling apparatus, into the storage bag by the sheet handling apparatus, comprising:
- pushing, by a pushing member, a plurality of sheets transported in the storage area into the storage bag held by a holder through an opening of the storage bag;
- pressing, by a pressing member, the sheets stored in the storage bag;
- moving the pushing member outside of the storage bag while the pressing member presses the sheets;
- moving the pressing member outside of the storage bag after the holder has started to move to close the opening of the storage bag;
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- closing, by the holder, the opening of the storage bag after the pressing member has moved outside of the storage bag.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.