Patent ID: 9555995
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: B65H

Claim:
1. A sheet material take-in apparatus comprising: an apparatus body having a loading platform on which a sheet bundle composed of a plurality of sheet materials is loaded; a take-in unit configured to take in a sheet material from the loading platform to an interior of the apparatus body; a pressing unit configured to press the sheet material on the loading platform to the take-in unit; an aligning unit configured to align the sheet bundle loaded on the loading platform; and a control unit configured to control an operation of the take-in unit and an operation of the aligning unit, wherein the control unit temporarily stops a sheet take-in operation taking in the sheet material to the interior of the apparatus, based on change in a pressing position of the sheet material pressed by the pressing unit during the sheet take-in operation, and controls the take-in unit to resume the take-in operation after controlling the operation of the aligning unit based on an amount of change in a pressing position of the sheet material pressed by the pressing unit, and wherein the change is that the pressing position changes in an direction opposite to a pushing direction from the pressing unit to the take-in unit.