Trading card inventory management systems and related methods of use are described. These systems may include singulators, card translocators that pass cards from a receiver to storage, and back to the receiver, card chutes, and card guides. A card box system of storage and translocation is also described.

Trading card inventory management systems and related methods of use are described. These systems may include singulators, card translocators that pass cards from a receiver to storage, and back to the receiver, card chutes, and card guides. A card box system of storage and translocation is also described.

A sheet supplying apparatus includes an alignment member pivotable to an alignment location for blocking and aligning fore-ends of media contained on a loading table, and a transport-allowing location for allowing a medium picked up by a pickup member to be transported, a cam gear including a gear portion partially including a tooth-omitted portion, and a cam portion for switching the alignment member between the alignment location and the transport-allowing location at first and second rotating locations, a swing arm pivotable about a same axis as a rotation axis of a main gear, and first and second swing gears supported by the swing arm to interlock with the main gear, selectively interlocking with the gear portion according to a rotating direction of the main gear, and rotating the cam gear to the first and second rotating locations.

A sheet supplying apparatus includes an alignment member pivotable to an alignment location for blocking and aligning fore-ends of media contained on a loading table, and a transport-allowing location for allowing a medium picked up by a pickup member to be transported, a cam gear including a gear portion partially including a tooth-omitted portion, and a cam portion for switching the alignment member between the alignment location and the transport-allowing location at first and second rotating locations, a swing arm pivotable about a same axis as a rotation axis of a main gear, and first and second swing gears supported by the swing arm to interlock with the main gear, selectively interlocking with the gear portion according to a rotating direction of the main gear, and rotating the cam gear to the first and second rotating locations.

A sheet supplying apparatus includes an alignment member pivotable to an alignment location for blocking and aligning fore-ends of media contained on a loading table, and a transport-allowing location for allowing a medium picked up by a pickup member to be transported, a cam gear including a gear portion partially including a tooth-omitted portion, and a cam portion for switching the alignment member between the alignment location and the transport-allowing location at first and second rotating locations, a swing arm pivotable about a same axis as a rotation axis of a main gear, and first and second swing gears supported by the swing arm to interlock with the main gear, selectively interlocking with the gear portion according to a rotating direction of the main gear, and rotating the cam gear to the first and second rotating locations.

A sheet supplying apparatus includes an alignment member pivotable to an alignment location for blocking and aligning fore-ends of media contained on a loading table, and a transport-allowing location for allowing a medium picked up by a pickup member to be transported, a cam gear including a gear portion partially including a tooth-omitted portion, and a cam portion for switching the alignment member between the alignment location and the transport-allowing location at first and second rotating locations, a swing arm pivotable about a same axis as a rotation axis of a main gear, and first and second swing gears supported by the swing arm to interlock with the main gear, selectively interlocking with the gear portion according to a rotating direction of the main gear, and rotating the cam gear to the first and second rotating locations.

An image reading apparatus includes a sheet conveyance portion, an image reading portion configured to read an image on the sheet conveyed by the sheet conveyance portion, and an opening/closing device configured to openably and closeably support the sheet conveyance portion with respect to the image reading portion. The opening/closing device includes a first opening/closing unit and a second opening/closing unit. The first opening/closing unit is provided at, in a movement direction of the movable portion, a position in a first distance from a reading position. The second opening/closing unit is provided at a position in a second distance longer than the first distance from the reading position in the movement direction. The second opening/closing unit includes an attenuation device configured to attenuate vibration energy of the sheet conveyance portion, and the first opening/closing unit does not include an attenuation device.

An image reading apparatus includes a sheet conveyance portion, an image reading portion configured to read an image on the sheet conveyed by the sheet conveyance portion, and an opening/closing device configured to openably and closeably support the sheet conveyance portion with respect to the image reading portion. The opening/closing device includes a first opening/closing unit and a second opening/closing unit. The first opening/closing unit is provided at, in a movement direction of the movable portion, a position in a first distance from a reading position. The second opening/closing unit is provided at a position in a second distance longer than the first distance from the reading position in the movement direction. The second opening/closing unit includes an attenuation device configured to attenuate vibration energy of the sheet conveyance portion, and the first opening/closing unit does not include an attenuation device.

A banknote validator having a housing, a validation sensor; and a banknote drive mechanism. The banknote drive mechanism may be arranged to transport a banknote from an input aperture to a stacking device. The banknote drive mechanism may delimit a first banknote pathway proximal to an input aperture, and a second banknote pathway proximal to the stacking device. A pivotable security gate arrangement may be included that is resiliently biased to project into the second banknote pathway.

A document sheet transportation device includes a feeding portion which feeds a document sheet from a document sheet placement portion toward a document sheet transportation path. The feeding portion includes a holder, a feeding member, a supporting body supported by the holder, a rotatable stopper member having a contact end portion allowed to contact a front end of a document sheet, and a biasing member which applies a biasing force to the stopper member. The stopper member is allowed to change a position among a first position in which the contact end portion contacts the front end of the document sheet, a second position which allows feeding of the document sheet by the feeding member, and a third position which is rotated in the first rotating direction from the second position. The biasing member applies the biasing force to the stopper member in a reverse second rotating direction.