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

Claim 17:
18. 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 the belt lower surface faces an inner portion of an upper surface of the stacked sheet-shaped media;
the surrounding member includes at least the left and right surrounding members;
the suction transport belt is disposed so that the belt lower surface becomes an inclined surface whose end in a downstream side in the carrying-out direction is relatively high;
the surrounding member includes at least the left and right surrounding members and a downstream surrounding member; and
the left and right surrounding members are disposed so that at least parts of ends thereof on a downstream side in the carrying-out direction protrude toward a downstream side in the carrying-out direction relative to the downstream surrounding member.