Patent ID: 8322713
Filing Date: 2012-12-04
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. A cross conveying device for mounting a planar-view-rectangle sheet, which has been conveyed from a preceding devise toward a first direction, onto a conveyance surface and conveying the sheet toward a second direction perpendicular to the first direction while moving it along an alignment guide, wherein the alignment guide comprises a guide surface which abuts on a front edge of the first direction of the sheet and guides the sheet, and a rotatable spherical body which mounts onto the sheet abutting on the guide surface and applies a load to the sheet, an alignment guide moving mechanism is provided, the alignment guide moving mechanism comprises a reciprocating mechanism which can reciprocate the alignment guide along the first direction, and a movement control part which controls the reciprocating mechanism, the reciprocating mechanism is formed so as to be able to move the alignment guide between a guide position where the guide surface abuts on the front edge of the first direction of the sheet having finished mounting onto the conveyance surface and a retraction position where the spherical body does not make contact with the front edge of the first direction of the sheet having finished mounting onto the conveyance surface, the movement control part controls the reciprocating mechanism so as to move the alignment guide from the guide position to the retraction position when the movement control part detects a time when the sheet begins to mount onto the conveyance surface, and the movement control part controls the reciprocating mechanism so as to move the alignment guide from the retraction position to the guide position when the movement control part detects a time when the sheet has finished mounting onto the conveyance surface.