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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2008
Yoshihide Sugiyama, Kinokawa, JP;
Kazuya Yamamoto, Kinokawa, JP;
Katsunori Takahashi, Kinokawa, JP;
Hidemasa Kanada, Suwa, JP;
Junichi Kakuta, Suwa, JP;
Yoshihide Sugiyama, Kinokawa, JP;
Kazuya Yamamoto, Kinokawa, JP;
Katsunori Takahashi, Kinokawa, JP;
Hidemasa Kanada, Suwa, JP;
Junichi Kakuta, Suwa, JP;
Duplo Seiko Corporation, Wakayama, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a sheet inverting apparatus wherein members, such as a roller, are not brought into contact with the printed surface of a sheet at all, and the occurrence of dirt can be prevented by eliminating friction of ink on the surface of the sheet. A first transport apparatus and a second transport apparatus each have a plurality of transport belts which move on transport tracks along sheet transport directions and a suction box which sucks the sheet on the transport belts through suction holes formed on the transport belts. A turn guide arranged between the first transport apparatus and the second transport apparatus has a plurality of guide ribs disposed between the transport belts. Each of the guide ribs coming into slidable contact with the sheet forms a curved inverting transfer surface from an inversion starting point side to an inversion end point side.