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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
May. 16, 2012
Takamoto Yokote, Gunma, JP;
Takamoto Yokote, Gunma, JP;
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A medium processing apparatus comprises a casing surrounded by a partitioning wall with an opening; a reel on which tape is wound; a fold-back section provided on an opposite side of the medium processing apparatus to the reel, so as to folded back the tape pulled out from the reel; a drum in the casing to be rotatable such that a rectangular shaped medium fed in the casing is wound onto the drum together with the tape that has been folded back on itself by the fold-back section; a winding guide provided further to a drum side than the tape, the winding guide closes off an internal space of the casing from the outside and presses the tape and the medium against a peripheral face of the drum; and an opening and closing section configuring a portion of the winding guide and opening or closing off the internal space.