Patent ID: 7798488
Filing Date: 2010-09-21
Classification: B65G,B65H

Abstract:
1. An equipment for conveying sheet-shaped members, comprising: a plurality of blower ducts being arranged parallel; a common duct being connected to outlets of the blower ducts: an air stream unit for generating air streams in the blower ducts; a plurality of sheet feeding units being respectively connected to the blower ducts, the sheet feeding units feeding sheet-shaped members into the blower ducts; a plurality of open and close valves being respectively provided to the blower ducts, the open and close valves opening and closing the blower ducts; a drive section for respectively driving the open and close valves; a collecting unit being provided to a terminal end of the common duct, the collecting unit collecting the sheet-shaped members conveyed; and a control section for controlling the drive section, wherein the control section opens the open and close valve of the blower duct, which is connected to one of the sheet feeding units into which the sheet-shaped member is inserted, and closes the open and close valves of other blower ducts so as to preferentially maintain a flow volume of the air stream in the blower duct whose open and close valve is opened and limit flow volumes of the air streams in other blower ducts when the insertion of the sheet-shaped members is detected, wherein said equipment further includes a bending unit for bending the sheet-shaped member so as to form a deformity in the sheet-shaped member, and the sheet-shaped member is conveyed by applying a wind pressure to the deformity.