Patent ID: 6971295

Claim:
A sheet delivery apparatus comprising: a cutter cylinder having cutter blades provided on an outer circumferential surface of the cutter cylinder at equal circumferential intervals; a cutter reception cylinder disposed in parallel with and in the vicinity of the cutter cylinder and having cutter receivers provided on an outer circumferential surface of the cutter reception cylinder at equal circumferential intervals, the cutter cylinder and the cutter reception cylinder being rotated synchronously in such a manner that the cutter blades and the corresponding cutter receivers meet and cut the paper web to obtain sheets of a predetermined length; a conveyor provided downstream of a closely-facing region where the cutter cylinder and the cutter reception cylinder closely face each other and adapted to convey the sheets; at least one dampening unit provided upstream of the closely-facing region and in the vicinity of a paper web path, the dampening unit being adapted to dampen a surface of the paper web so as to raise a difference in degree of dampness between opposite surfaces of the paper web in such a manner that a cut end portion of the paper web is curved toward the cutter reception cylinder; and at least one guide bar disposed in a groove formed circumferentially on an outer circumferential surface of the cutter reception cylinder, the guide bar extending substantially in parallel with the traveling direction of the paper web and, in the groove, passing through an imaginary plane including an axis of the cutter cylinder and an axis of the cutter reception cylinder.