Patent ID: 8227680

Claim:
A booklet page turning apparatus comprising: a feed device which feeds a booklet to a page turning position; a vacuum pad which comes into contact with an uppermost page of the booklet fed to the page turning position by the feed device and vacuum-chucks the page; a driving device which moves the vacuum pad so as to lift the uppermost page of the booklet by a predetermined angle in a direction of opening the page about a binding portion; a contact roller unit which enters under the uppermost page lifted by the predetermined angle; a control device which controls to, after the contact roller unit has entered under the uppermost page, cancel vacuum chuck of the vacuum pad to make the vacuum pad retreat from the uppermost page to a retreat position, and feed the booklet so as to bring the uppermost page into contact with the contact roller unit and open the page; and a guide member provided near the vacuum pad to freely project/retreat from a plane corresponding to a suction surface of the vacuum pad, the guide member moving integrally with the vacuum pad and coming into contact with a page of the booklet at the page turning position to regulate rising of the page.