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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 1990
Filed:
Jun. 29, 1988
Tsutomu Sasage, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiko Noguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Nagatani, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiharu Kubota, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
An apparatus applicable to a sheet article processing system for temporarily accumulating sheet articles which come in arbitrarily one by one or in a bunch and sending them out one by one at predetermined intervals. The apparatus includes a drive mechanism capable of starting and stopping the movement of a suction belt instantaneously, a sensor responsive to the leading edge of a sheet article which has been nipped by a downstream transport path, and a sensor responsive to the presence/absence of an interval between successive sheet articles which occurs between the downstream transport path and a reverse belt. Other sensors are provided for determining an interval between successive articles. A pick-up roller pair is driven at a controllable speed in matching relation to the interval between successive articles determined.