Patent ID: 7413185
Filing Date: 2008-08-19
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. A paper sheet takeout apparatus comprising: a supply device which supplies a stack of paper sheets in a stacking direction; a delivering roller which contacts paper sheets supplied from the supply device, rotates and delivers the paper sheets; a pressure device which presses the delivering roller to the paper sheets; a feeding roller which rotates in a first direction and feeds the paper sheets delivered from the delivering roller; a separating roller which is pressed by the feeding roller, given a rotation torque in a second direction reverse to the first direction, and separates the paper sheets; a storage device which has several processing modes, and stores parameters of a supply speed of the supply device, a pressing force of the pressure device and a separating force of the separating roller for each processing mode; a mode selector device which selects one of the processing modes; and a control device which reads the parameters from the storage device in accordance with the processing mode selected by the mode selector device and which controls supply speed of the supply device; a pressing force of the pressure device and a separating force of the separating roller, based on the parameters read from the storage device.