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US 6,659,258 B2Granted
Paper-like material processing apparatus
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorToru Otsuka
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Abstract
The paper-like material processing apparatus having backups for loading stacked paper-like materials respectively in the two stackers that the stacked paper-like materials on the backups are transferred to one carrier and conveyed to a single banding mechanism, wherein the apparatus has a temporarily holding mechanism for receiving and holding the stacked paper-like materials from the backups when the carrier is in use and a delivery mechanism for transferring the stacked paper-like materials of the temporarily holding mechanism to the carrier and transfers the stacked paper-like materials to the carrier when the carrier becomes usable.
Claims13
A paper-like material processing apparatus, comprising:
- a discriminator to discriminate a kind of paper-like materials to be conveyed;
- a first stacker to stack the paper-like materials discriminated as a first kind on the basis of discrimination results of the discriminator;
- a second stacker to stack the paper-like materials discriminated as a second kind on the basis of the discrimination results of the discriminator;
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- a single banding mechanism to band respectively paper-like materials stacked in the first stacker and the second stacker.
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A paper-like material processing apparatus, comprising:
- an insert port that a plurality of rectangular paper-like materials having a front and back and an upper end and lower end extending in a longitudinal direction are inserted in a batch;
- a take-out portion to take out the paper-like materials inserted into the insert port one by one with the upper end or the lower end positioned up;
- a conveying path to convey the paper-like materials taken out from the take-out portion with the upper end or the lower end positioned up;
- a detector to detect information concerning “front and back” and “top and bottom” of the paper-like materials conveyed on the conveying path;
- a front/back reversing portion to selectively reverse the front and back of the paper-like materials conveyed on the conveying path on the basis of the detected results by the detector;
- first and second stackers to stack the paper-like materials whose front and back are selectively reversed by the front/back reversing portion;
- a distributor to distribute the paper-like materials conveyed on the conveying path to either of the first and second stackers on the basis of the detection results by the detector;
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- a single banding portion to band the paper-like materials stacked in the first and second stackers at a biased position on one side in the longitudinal direction for each predetermined number.
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A paper-like material processing apparatus, comprising:
- a discriminator to discriminate paper-like materials to be conveyed;
- a first stacker to stack the paper-like materials on the basis of discrimination results of the discriminator;
- a second stacker to stack the paper-like materials on the basis of the discrimination results of the discriminator;
- a single banding mechanism to band the paper-like materials stacked in the first stacker and the second stacker;
- a conveying mechanism to, when a number of stacked paper-like materials in the first and second stackers reaches a predetermined number, receive the paper-like materials and convey the paper-like materials to the banding mechanism;
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- a temporarily holder to, when the number of stacked paper-like materials in one of the first and second stackers reaches the predetermined number during a conveying operation by the conveying mechanism, receive the paper-like materials in the stacker and temporarily hold the paper-like materials and after the conveying operation by the conveying mechanism ends, transfer the temporarily held paper-like materials to the conveying mechanism.
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A paper-like material processing apparatus, comprising:
- an insert port that a plurality of paper-like materials are inserted in a batch;
- a take-out portion to take out the paper-like materials inserted into the insert port one by one;
- a conveying path to convey the paper-like materials taken out from the take-out portion;
- a detector to detect information of the paper-like materials conveyed on the conveying path;
- first and second stackers to selectively stack the paper-like materials conveyed on the conveying path on the basis of the detection results by the detector;
- a distributor to distribute the paper-like materials conveyed on the conveying path to either of the first and second stackers on the basis of the detection results by the detector;
- a single banding portion to band the paper-like materials stacked in the first and second stackers for each predetermined number;
- a conveying mechanism to, when a number of stacked paper-like materials in the first and second stackers reaches a predetermined number, receive the paper-like materials and convey the paper-like materials to the banding mechanism;
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- a temporarily holder to, when the number of stacked paper-like materials in one of the first and second stackers reaches the predetermined number during a conveying operation by the conveying mechanism, receive the paper-like materials in the stacker and temporarily hold the paper-like materials and after the conveying operation by the conveying mechanism ends, transfer the temporarily held paper-like materials to the conveying mechanism.
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A paper-like material processing apparatus, comprising:
- an insert port that a plurality of paper-like materials are inserted in a batch;
- a take-out portion to take out the paper-like materials inserted into the insert port one by one;
- a conveying path to convey the paper-like materials taken out from the take-out portion;
- a detector to detect information of the paper-like materials conveyed on the conveying path;
- first and second stackers to selectively stack the paper-like materials conveyed on the conveying path on the basis of the detection results by the detector;
- a distributor to distribute the paper-like materials conveyed on the conveying path to either of the first and second stackers on the basis of the detection results by the detector;
- a single banding portion to band the paper-like materials stacked in the first and second stackers for each predetermined number;
- a conveying mechanism to, when a number of stacked paper-like materials in the first and second stackers reaches a predetermined number, receive the paper-like materials and convey the paper-like materials to the banding mechanism;
- a stopper to stop taking-out of the paper-like materials by the take-out portion during the conveying operation by the conveying mechanism;
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- a re-starter to restart taking-out the paper-like materials by the take-out portion earlier than a stackable time of the paper-like materials into the first and second stackers in correspondence with an end of the banding operation by the banding mechanism by a time required to take out the paper-like materials by the take-out portion and convey the paper-like materials to the first and second stackers.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.