Patent ID: 8320030
Filing Date: 2012-11-27
Classification: B65H,H04N

Abstract:
1. A storing and processing apparatus for a record member, comprising: a record member transport route that transports a recording member; a record member storing portion that stores therein the record member being transported along the record member transport route; a moving unit that moves the record member storing portion up or down; a positioning and storing portion that temporarily positions and stores the record member being transported along the record member transport route before being stored by the record member storing portion; an arranging unit that stacks and arranges record members in the positioning and storing portion; a discharge member that discharges the record member on the record member transport route or on the positioning and storing portion from a discharge position toward the record member storing portion; a record member type determining unit that determines whether a record member being transported along the record member transport route is an ordinary record member having a weight or a thickness of a reference value or less, or a specific record member having a weight or a thickness of a value exceeding the reference value; and, a control unit which, when the record member type determining unit determines that the record member is the ordinary record member, drives the moving unit to move the record member storing portion up or down to be set at an ordinary storage position which is lower than the discharge position of the record member to be discharged by the discharge member, and drives the discharge member to discharge one or more record members arranged on the positioning and storing portion toward the record member storing portion after the one or more record members are arranged in the positioning and storing portion by the arranging unit,