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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 1993
Filed:
Jul. 24, 1991
Mitsuru Yamada, Yamato, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A device incorporated in image forming equipment for transporting a paper sheet fed from any one of a plurality of vertically spaced paper feeding sections along a vertically extending common transport path. The common transport path is defined by an endless dielectric belt whose volume resistivity is selected to be 10.sup.8 to 10.sup.13 .OMEGA..multidot.cm. The belt transports a paper sheet upward while attracting it electrostatically thereon. A charging section implemented with a corona discharger and a counter electrode that face each other with the intermediary of the belt is located at each position where a path extending out from a particular paper feeding section merges into the common transport path.