Patent ID: 8537383
Filing Date: 2013-09-17
Classification: B65H,G06K

Abstract:
1. A decoloring device comprising: a first sheet carrying path that leads a sheet that is provided from a supply opening to a discharge opening; a decoloring section that decolors an image that is formed by a decolorable colorant on the sheet that is carried on the first sheet carrying path; a second sheet carrying path that is a carrying path that diverges from the first sheet carrying path, and that leads the sheet that the decoloring section decolors to a separation device that separates and discharges the sheet to any of a plurality of discharge the sheet destinations; a flapper that switches a carrying destination of the sheet that passes through the decoloring section to the discharge opening on the first sheet carrying path or the separation device; a route control section that switches, by switching the flapper, the carrying destination of the sheet that passes through the decoloring section to either the discharge opening or the separation device; a malfunction detection section that determines a presence or absence of a malfunction in each of the decoloring section and the separation device; and a function management section that causes, when the malfunction determination section determines that either one of the decoloring section and the separation device is malfunctioning, only the other to be executable.