Patent ID: 7845631
Filing Date: 2010-12-07
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. A transporting device for moving an object, comprising: a loading surface configured to hold and transport the object, the object including at least one sheet; an elevator plate mounted on the loading surface, the elevator plate being configured to be liftable and lowerable on the loading surface; a drive part configured to lift the elevator plate via gears in a first direction and to lower the elevator plate via the gears in a second direction opposite the first direction; a controller configured to execute a preparatory operation to operate the drive part to correspond to a gear backlash in the first direction opposite the second direction, the preparatory operation being operating the drive part during a time after completion of an elevator plate drive operation in the second direction until a start of a continuation of an elevator plate drive operation in the first direction; and an appropriate position detector having