Laminating apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakao Seki
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Abstract
A laminating apparatus 1 is controlled in the following manner: if power supply from a utility power source through a power supply part 85 is started (S1:YES), a cold flag 72B is set to the on state (S2); if opening of a cover 13 causes a cassette sensor 56 to turn on from on (S11:YES, S12:YES), a cassette replacement flag 72A is set to the on state (S13); and if the flag 72B or 72A is in an on state (S14:YES, S15:YES) at power-on of the apparatus 1 by a power switch 17 (S5:YES), a slack removal processing is performed on a first and second sheets 27 and 29 (S7, S16-S19).
Claims26
A laminating apparatus for producing a laminate by unreeling sheet from a sheet roll containing long lengths of rolled sheet, and laminating the unreeled sheet on a document medium, while feeding the laminated sheet and document medium, the apparatus including:
- a controller for controlling the laminating apparatus;
- a power supply part for supplying power to the controller;
- a sheet roll holding part for holding the sheet roll;
- a sheet roll detecting part for detecting mounting and dismounting of the sheet roll with respect to the sheet roll holding part;
- a first flag memory that is set when the power supply part starts supplying power to the controller;
- a second flag memory that is set when the sheet roll detecting part detects the mounting and dismounting of the sheet roll;
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- a slack removing device that performs a slack removing operation to remove slack generated in the sheet unreeled from the sheet roll only if the first or second flag memory has been set.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.