Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Nippon Airshooter Co., Ltd.

Kunihiko Nakamura

Yukito Matsuo

Tsuyoshi Ishida

Takashi Koshiyouji

Hideo Ohmura

Noboru Yamada

Takeshi Oowa

Isao Shirai

Hiromi Miyaji

Masashi Nakada

Kouitirou Shin

Mitsuaki Masuko

A conveying apparatus conveys storage cases, each containing at least one item of article to be conveyed, along a conveying path and includes main conveying mechanisms and sub-conveying mechanisms. The respective main conveying mechanism has a pair of guide rails which define a main conveying path for storage cases. Stations are located on the main conveying path and carriers are guided along the guide rails on the main conveying path. The carrier includes a storage section for storing the storage cases. The carrier is moved by a linear motor along the main conveying path and stopped at at least one station so that the storage case is conveyed to a destination. The sub-conveying mechanism includes a pair of case guides on sub-conveying path which extends from the station. The storage case is conveyed by a conveying belt along the case guides on the sub-conveying path. A supply section and receipt section are provided on the sub-conveying path, the supply section supplying the storage case to the conveying belt and the receipt section receiving the storage case from the conveying belt. A transfer mechanism is provided at the station to transfer the storage case between the carrier on the main conveying mechanism and the conveying belt for the sub-conveying mechanism.

Conveying apparatus and fixing apparatus

A paper-sheet dividing apparatus has a blade wheel which has a plurality of curved slots. Each curved slot is rotated to sequentially deliver a paper sheet to a conveyor belt. The apparatus also has a dividing member rotated together with the blade wheel and timed such that a corresponding curved slot for receiving the last paper sheet among the first predetermined number of paper sheets to be divided is axially matched with one of the first blades which is positioned between the curved slot which receives the first paper sheet among the second predetermined number of paper sheets and the curved slot which receives the last paper sheet described above. The dividing member is rotated through a predetermined angle and is separated from the blade wheel. During this movement, the paper sheet removed from the blade wheel is temporarily supported on the dividing member. Therefore, the paper sheets previously removed from the blade wheel and piled on the conveyor belt can be transferred without interrupting the operation of the blade wheel. After transfer of the previously removed paper sheets, the paper sheets on the dividing member can be transferred to the conveyor belt.

Paper-sheet dividing apparatus

A stacking apparatus for paper sheets has a transporting belt mechanism for sequentially supplying paper sheets one by one at predetermined intervals, rotatable blade wheels for receiving the paper sheets in elongated spaced defined therebetween, a stationary stop for abutting against the paper sheet rotated together with the blade wheels to remove each paper sheet from the space and for dropping the paper sheet toward a predetermined stacking position of a stacking unit, separators which are coaxially rotated together with the blade wheels without being brought into contact with the paper sheets inserted in the spaces, which stop at a receiving hand immediately before a first paper sheet drops from the blade wheels and which receive the subsequent paper sheets, which are started when a predetermined number of paper sheets previously stacked in the stacking position is cleared away by the stacking unit, which transfer the paper sheets from the receiving hand to the stacking position, and which are operated such that the paper sheets discharged from the blade wheels are directly stacked on the stacking position until the first paper sheet of the next group having the predetermined number of paper sheets drops, and a control circuit for controlling the blade wheels, the separators, and a controlling unit to achieve the operation mentioned above.

Stacking apparatus for paper sheets

In a paper sheet stacking apparatus according to the present invention, continuously fed paper sheets are received by rotating blade wheels, and are then dropped from the blade wheels at a predetermined position by means of a stationary stop. A separator capable of rotating coaxially with the blade wheels is stopped at the paper sheet dropping position to bear thereon the first of many sheaves of paper sheets to be allotted out of the dropped paper sheets. The paper sheets on the separator is temporarily transferred to an auxiliary stacking unit, and the separator is removed from the blade wheels. Then, the separator is rotated without touching the paper sheets and stopped at a position beside a stand-by position where it waits for the first paper sheet out of the next sheaf of paper sheets to be inserted into the blade wheels. Thereafter, the separator is moved further toward the blade wheels and stopped at the stand-by position. Meanwhile, the paper sheets on the auxiliary stacking unit are transferred to a main stacking unit so that the main stacking unit can receive and bear thereon the paper sheets to be dropped thereafter. Thus, regular sheaves of paper sheets each consisting of a predetermined number of sheets may successively be formed on the main stacking unit without interrupting the feed of the paper sheets to the blade wheels.

An apparatus for processing paper sheets comprises a batch feeder for carrying the batches of paper sheets, each of the batches being sealed with the wrapping band, batch takeout device for taking out the batches carried by the batch feeder one by one, and wrapping band removing device adapted to hold the other side portion of the wrapping band while bending each batch taken out by the batch takeout device in one direction, and, then, to cut one side portion of the wrapping band, while bending the batch in the other direction.

Paper sheet processing apparatus

In a sheet sorting apparatus of this invention, two main belts for conveying sheets run one upon another through a predetermined section, and are then separated from each other so that a triangular space is defined between them. The shape of the space is determined by two separating pulleys and two guide pulleys. A separator member rockable in the space has a projected portion projecting between the separating pulleys. When the separator member is rotated, the projected portion engages one of the separating pulleys in the rotating direction to restrain the rotation of the separator member so that the sheets are guided into one of collectors corresponding to the rotating direction.

Sheet sorting apparatus

Paper leaves, conveyed through a conveyer belt system, are inserted into arcuate grooves of rotating conveying wheels and subjected to a running speed reduction, and discharged under the rotating conveying wheels into a space by the use of a stopper. When the number of paper leaves falling into the space reaches a preset count, for example, projecting devices are actuated to project bar elements into the space, with paper leaves exceeding the preset count being piled on the bar elements. The preset number of paper leaves are then transferred from the space. Once transfer is complete, the bar elements are retracted enabling the paper leaves collected thereupon to fall into the space.

Sheet handling device

A thin sheet feeding apparatus has a bending mechanism to curve a pile of thin sheets bundled by a belt member and a mechanism to sequentially feed at least one thin sheet from the uppermost thin sheet from the curved concave pile of the thin sheet in the predetermined feeding direction.

Thin sheet feeding apparatus

A sheet transport apparatus picks up and transports a topmost sheet of a stack of sheets in a one-by-one manner. A suction drum with a cylindrical member rotating in a cyclic manner picks up the leading edge of the topmost sheet by suction force when the cylindrical member is substantially in a momentary stop state. A stationary separation suction head disposed adjacent the stack in the transport direction separates by suction force any sheets underlying the topmost sheet undesirably picked up by the operation of picking the topmost sheet from the stack. A belt conveyor system disposed adjacent the stationary separation suction head in the transport direction gradually grasps the leading edge of the sheet picked-up by the suction drum while the trailing portion of the grasped sheet is also attracted by the suction drum means so that a slight tension is given to the sheet until it is firmly held and transported by the belt conveyor system.

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Yokohama, Japan

Kunihiko Nakamura