Patent ID: 11873182
Assignee: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A feeder comprising:
a mount board that moves vertically while allowing sheet-shaped media to be stacked thereon;
a transport device that allows an uppermost one of the sheet-shaped media stacked on the mount board to be sucked by a suction portion to transport the uppermost sheet-shaped medium to a transporter and to feed the uppermost sheet-shaped medium to a destination;
left and right edge air blowers that blow air to transportation left and right edge portions of upper ones of the sheet-shaped media stacked; and
a tip-end air blower that blows air to below the uppermost sheet-shaped medium sucked by the suction portion from a position downstream from a transportation leading end of the uppermost sheet-shaped medium in a transport direction,
wherein when the uppermost sheet-shaped medium is sucked by the suction portion, the feeder performs a first operation of spacing an upwardly bent transportation leading-end portion of a second uppermost sheet-shaped medium apart downward from the sucked uppermost sheet-shaped medium,
wherein the left and right edge air blowers include a plurality of edge air blowers disposed at different positions in the transport direction of the sheet-shaped media, and
wherein the first operation further includes an operation of reducing, further than in a normal operation, an air flow from at least one of the plurality of edge air blowers located close to transportation leading ends of the sheet-shaped media, or stopping the air flow.