Abstract: A conveyance control unit is provided with a conveyance request unit configured to transmit a conveyance request signal to a paper conveyance device at a conveyance request timing corresponding to a processing cycle of a downstream paper processing device, a passage information reception unit configured to receive a paper passage signal indicating that paper has been sent out from the paper conveyance device, and the determination unit configured to determine whether a conveyance delay has occurred based on timing when the paper passage signal was received. The conveyance request unit is configured to transmit the conveyance request signal at the conveyance request timing corresponding to the next processing cycle when it is determined that a conveyance delay has not occurred, and the conveyance request unit is configured not to transmit the conveyance request signal at the conveyance request timing corresponding to the next processing cycle when it is determined that a conveyance delay has occurred.

Abstract: A sheet stacker for use in a device including a stacker portion, a fence, and a guide face. The stacker portion includes a stacker face that is inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to a horizontal plane and receives a plurality of sheets ejected from above and stack the plurality of sheets on the stacker face. The fence includes an angled face to contact an end of the plurality of sheets stacked on the stacker face. The angled face rises in a direction in which the plurality of sheets is stacked, with respect to a lower side of the stacker face. The guide face guides the sheet conveyed along the lower side toward an outlet port to a lower end of the outlet port, the outlet port opening in an exterior of the device to remove the sheet to an outside of the device.

Abstract: A pusher plate stacking bin apparatus is provided for a valuable media depository. The apparatus comprising a pusher plate driven by a rack and pinion apparatus to stack a media item that is in a final position within the apparatus onto a media stacking platform. The media item is urged into the final position such that a trailing edge of the media item overhangs and rests on a fixed media guide and such that a leading edge of the media item overhangs and rests on a hinged media guide with a bottom surface of the media item elevated above the media stacking platform. The rack and pinion apparatus drives the plate past the media guides causing the hinged media guide to drop and the media item to fold along the leading edge as the media item is stacked onto the platform.

Abstract: A single-sheet lifter includes a base frame arranged in a vicinity of a loading area and extending vertically, a separation unit configured to separate an uppermost workpiece from a plurality of the workpieces loaded in the loading area by means of at least one of an injection pressure of air and a suction force, and a counter balancer configured to reduce a weight acting on the separation unit. The separation unit is provided to the base frame so as to be able to move up and down. The separation unit includes a contact member that comes into contact with a surface of the uppermost workpiece. The separation unit is configured to go up following a lifting operation of a workpiece suction lifter and be retracted from above the loading area when the workpiece suction lifter sucks the surface of the uppermost workpiece to lift the workpiece.

Abstract: Provided is a sheet storage apparatus capable of storing as many sheets as possible in a storage bag. The sheet storage apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a moving section that moves a sheet to a back side, in a storing direction, of a storage bag fixed so that the storing direction is horizontal or closer to horizontal than to vertical; a first storage bag support that supports a bottom surface of the storage bag; and a second storage bag support that is positioned on the back side from the first storage bag support in the storing direction and supports the bottom surface of the storage bag at a position lower than the first storage bag support.

Abstract: A medium feeding device includes a feeder that feeds a medium, a medium detection sensor that detects the medium fed by the feeder, and a processor that changes feed settings of the feeder based on a detection result of the medium detection sensor, wherein the processor switches a feed setting to be changed among a plurality of the feed settings of the feeder based on the detection result of the medium detection sensor.

Abstract: A paper feeding apparatus includes: a paper feeder configured to feed out the uppermost paper included in a paper bundle; a blower configured to blow gas to a lateral side of the paper bundle; and a processor configured to reduce an amount of the gas blown to the lateral side when a predetermined specific condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A replaceable stack sheet replaceably provided in a medium integration/separation device to guide integration of a medium according to an embodiment includes a body which is coupled to a rotary shaft and in which a plurality of support shafts are spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction, and a plurality of sheet pieces having ends rotatably coupled to the plurality of support shafts.

Abstract: A printer for printing plate-like media, in particular for printing marker cards with markers for marking electrical appliances includes a housing and at least one input station for the marker cards to be printed The printer further includes a printing station with a printing device and an output station for printed marker cards. The output station has a magazining device which has one or more guide devices so that the output station, with the magazining device, can be drawn from a position pushed into the housing into a position outside the housing and can be pushed back into the housing of the printer, Each guide device also has its own stacking unit which is pivotably mounted.

Abstract: A medium processing device includes: a first unit; and a plurality of second units connected to the first unit. Each of the plurality of second units includes: a conveying mechanism that conveys a medium; and a medium detection portion that detects the medium being conveyed by the conveying mechanism and transmits a signal indicating detection of the medium to the first unit. The first unit determines connection order of the plurality of second units with respect to the first unit, based on the signal transmitted from each medium detection portion of the plurality of second units.

Abstract: A document conveying apparatus is provided with a document tray, a feeding member, and a discharge tray disposed below the document tray. The document tray includes an upper tray member, a lower tray member, a movable tray member movable in a width direction orthogonal to a feeding direction of a document, a tray cover disposed to cover an underside of the movable tray member, and a driving portion. The driving portion moves the upper tray member and the movable tray member integrally to a raised position and a lowered position. The movable tray member and the tray cover are configured to be moved integrally in the width direction between a first position in which the movable tray member supports the document together with the upper tray member and a second position in which the movable tray member is retracted from the first position into below the upper tray member.

Abstract: A document conveying apparatus is provided with a document tray and a discharge tray disposed below the document tray. The document tray includes an upper tray member, a lower tray member, a movable tray member, and a driving portion configured to move the upper tray member and the movable tray member integrally to a raised position and a lowered position. The movable tray member is configured to be moved in a width direction between a first position and a second position in which the movable tray member is retracted into below the upper tray member. The document tray includes a shutter configured to cover a gap created between the upper tray member and the lower tray member. The gap is created by the upper tray member and the movable tray member being moved to the raised position and the movable tray member being moved to the second position.

Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus for feeding sheets is provided with a delivery roller for delivering sheets on a stack tray, and an air blower mechanism for blowing air to the sheets on the stack tray, and selects to execute one of first operation for blowing air to the sheets to handle the sheets on the stack tray in a state in which the delivery roller is brought into contact with the sheets stacked on the stack tray, and second operation for blowing air to the sheets on the stack tray to handle the sheets in a state in which the delivery roller is retracted from the sheets stacked on the stack tray.

Abstract: To prevent deformation to relatively stiffer sheets during flipping, while ensuring reliable holding of relatively weaker sheets, a method for stacking sheets received from a printer by a sheet flipping device includes at least one slot for receiving a leading portion of a sheet. The method includes determining a respective insertion depth parameter for a first and a second sheet, wherein the second sheet has a greater stiffness than the first sheet; inserting a length of the first sheet into the at least one slot in correspondence with its respective insertion depth parameter, followed by flipping said first sheet; inserting a length (D2) of the second sheet into the at least one slot in correspondence with its respective insertion depth parameter, followed by flipping said second sheet, wherein the inserted length of the first sheet is greater than that of the second sheet.

Abstract: An apparatus main body of an image reading apparatus is capable of being switched between a first posture and a second posture in which an inclination angle is smaller than that of the first posture. The image reading apparatus is capable of switching between a separation state in which a separation roller separates a document and a non-separation state in which the separation roller does not separate the document. The image reading apparatus puts the separation roller in the separation state when the apparatus main body is in the first posture and puts the separation roller in the non-separation state when the apparatus main body is in the second posture.

Abstract: A banknote stack transport arrangement for a cash handling machine may include a first structure presenting a first banknote engagement portion that is displaceable in relation to the first structure, and a second structure presenting a second banknote engagement portion that is displaceable in relation to the second structure. At least one of the first and the second structures may be pivotally arranged at its first end so as to be swingably movable between a closed configuration and an open configuration. A movable banknote engager may be configured to press the banknote stack towards the first and/or the second banknote engagement portion. The banknote stack transport arrangement may be configured to transport the banknote stack out from a temporary banknote receptacle by displacing the first and the second banknote engagement portions and by moving the banknote engager to an active position.

Abstract: A sheet pile supporting assembly (24) for a sheet material processing machine is presented. It comprises a plurality of sheet pile supporting bars (28) and a movable guiding means for selectively moving one or more of the sheet pile supporting bars (28) from a retracted position to an extended position. Additionally, an automatic selection unit (30) is provided for automatically selecting the sheet pile supporting bars (28) to be moved to the extended position and for coupling the selected sheet pile supporting bars (28) to the movable guiding means. Moreover, a method for operating a sheet pile supporting assembly (24) for a sheet material processing machine is explained.

Abstract: A conveyance apparatus whose detection unit of a printing medium is unlikely to be damaged includes a first guide that is fixed to a main body; a second guide capable of moving to a position at which the second guide forms, together with the first guide, a conveyance path through which a printing medium is conveyed and a position at which the second guide opens the conveyance path; a first lever that is provided to the main body and which detects whether or not the printing medium exists in the conveyance path; and a second lever that shields light, wherein the first lever and the second lever can swing integrally or independently in accordance with the position of the second guide.

Abstract: A paper sheet processing device, which counts a plurality of paper sheets set in a deposit portion into groups of a predetermined batch number and dispenses them to a dispensing portion, includes a temporary holding portion configured to hold the paper sheets set in the deposit portion and feed the held paper sheets, and a control portion configured to perform feed control of the paper sheets in the temporary holding portion and transport control of the paper sheets set in the deposit portion, in which the control portion performs control to feed the paper sheets held in the temporary holding portion divided into groups of the batch number and dispense the paper sheets to the dispensing portion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device, a transport route, a purge transport route, an image forming transport route, a transport roller, and a blowing machine. The image forming device forms an image on a sheet. The transport route extends to a predetermined position. The purge transport route extends to a downstream side in a sheet transport direction, from the predetermined position. The image forming transport route is branched from the purge transport route at the predetermined position, and extends toward the image forming device. The transport roller transports the sheet along the transport route, and along one of the purge transport route and the image forming transport route. The blowing machine delivers the sheet to one of the purge transport route and the image forming transport route, by blowing air to the sheet being transported along the transport route.