Patent ID: 9545809
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: B41M

Claim:
1. A decoloring apparatus, comprising: a processor configured to determine whether or not to execute either a decoloring job or a non-decoloring job; a decoloring section configured to decolor an image on a paper formed with decolorable coloring agent; a paper discharge section stacks the papers for the decolorinq job or the papers for the non-decoloring job; a shift roller configured to assort the papers for the decoloring job and the papers for the non-decolorinq job by moving the papers in a direction orthogonal to a paper discharge direction of the paper so that the paper for the decolorinq job is discharged to a first area located on a plane same as the paper discharge section, and so that the paper for the non-decoloring job is discharged to a second area different from the first area located on a plane same as the paper discharge section; a paper discharge roller configured to discharge the paper sorted by the shift roller to the paper discharge section; and a paper suppressing member configured to be driven vertically in a direction orthogonal to the surface of the paper discharge section to press the first or the second area to the paper discharge section.