Patent ID: 11964840
Assignee: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A feeding apparatus for feeding a sheet-shaped medium comprising:
a stacking plate on which sheet-shaped media are stacked;
a suction transport belt that is disposed above the stacking plate and causes a topmost one of the stacked sheet-shaped media to be sucked onto a belt lower surface and then rotates to carry out the topmost sheet-shaped medium to a destination; and
a surrounding member that is provided in a hanging-down manner at least at left and right positions in a carrying-out direction around the suction transport belt so as to be movable up and down, surrounds a space below the belt lower surface, and is moved upward by contact with the sheet-shaped medium that is sucked upward and not supported by the stacking plate, wherein
the suction transport belt is disposed so that a portion, on a downstream side in the carrying-out direction, of the belt lower surface onto which the sheet-shaped medium is sucked protrudes toward a downstream side in the carrying-out direction beyond ends of the stacked sheet-shaped media on a downstream side in the carrying-out direction;
the surrounding member includes at least the left and right surrounding members; and
the left and right surrounding members are provided in peripheral positions around a portion of the suction transport belt that faces an upper surface of the stacked sheet-shaped media except for a peripheral position around the protruding portion of the suction transport belt.