Patent ID: 7441771

Claim:
A sheet-like medium treatment apparatus, comprising: an ejector configured to eject a transported sheet-like medium; a tray on which the sheet-like medium ejected by the ejector is loaded; a tray traveling device configured to sort the sheet-like medium loaded on the tray by traveling the tray in a direction of shift substantially orthogonal to a direction of ejection of the sheet-like medium by the ejector for a predetermined distance; an aligning device configured to align the sheet-like medium loaded on the tray and having a pair of aligning members configured to align positions of end faces of the sheet-like medium ejected by the ejector and loaded on the tray by contacting with the end faces of the sheet-like medium in parallel with the direction of the ejection to sandwich the end faces; and a controller configured to drive the aligning device to align a sheet-like medium ejected and loaded subsequent to sorting of the sheet-like medium to a position different from a position of the sheet-like medium loaded before the sorting is carried out.