Patent ID: 9150037
Filing Date: 2015-10-06
Classification: B41J,B65H

Abstract:
1. An individual sheet overlapping mechanism for overlapping a first individual sheet on a second individual sheet, the first individual sheet being conveyed from an upstream side and the second individual sheet being conveyed thereafter and having a length in a conveying direction which is longer than a length in the conveying direction of the first individual sheet, the individual sheet overlapping mechanism comprising: a holding cylinder that includes a paper edge holding mechanism capable of holding a front edge portion in the conveying direction of the first individual sheet and that is provided rotatably along the conveying direction of the first individual sheet, the holding cylinder being configured to wrap the first individual sheet that has reached said holding cylinder around said holding cylinder by the paper edge holding mechanism, release said first individual sheet at a timing when the second individual sheet has reached said holding cylinder, and stack said first individual sheet on said second individual sheet.