An apparatus according to the present disclosure stacks and aligns predetermined number of laminar members blanked respectively by a blanking block and transports them to a conveyor, thereby eliminating the need for the conventional counting operation and alignment operation of laminar members, and efficiently performing a subsequent adhesion or welding process etc. of laminar members.

A post-processing apparatus includes a guiding unit that faces a placement surface onto which sheets are transported and stacked as a stack of sheets and that is capable of changing a gap in a thickness direction of the stack of sheets, the guiding unit being configured to guide the sheets which are transported, and a controller that controls a size of the gap and a change pattern of the gap.

A post-processing apparatus includes a guiding unit that faces a placement surface onto which sheets are transported and stacked as a stack of sheets and that is capable of changing a gap in a thickness direction of the stack of sheets, the guiding unit being configured to guide the sheets which are transported, and a controller that controls a size of the gap and a change pattern of the gap.

User labor relating to determining on an alignment condition is reduced and a stable conveying operation is realized by aligning a sheet bundle also when a sheet bundle is added. A sheet bundle composed of multiple sheet materials is placed on a loading platform. An encoder pulse unit detects the amount of the sheet bundle placed on the loading platform based on the opening amount of a pressure plate. A control unit determines on an alignment condition according to the amount of the sheet bundle. Rotating members align the sheet bundle in accordance with the alignment condition. When it is determined that another sheet bundle has been added to the loading platform, the control unit updates the alignment condition according to the total amount of the other sheet bundle and the sheet bundle remaining on the loading platform.

The invention relates to a sheet depositing arrangement. The sheet depositing arrangement comprises at least one sheet depositing apparatus having a sheet stacking chamber for creating a sheet stack, and a sheet extraction device which in turn has a sheet transporting means that is drivable in a direction of circulation, a sheet delivery region for delivering the sheets to be stacked to the sheet stacking chamber, a sheet stacking region, provided downstream of the sheet delivery region, for stacking the sheets to be stacked into the sheet stacking chamber, and a return region, provided downstream of the sheet stacking region. Furthermore, the sheet depositing apparatus has a sheet retaining device with at least one sheet retaining element, arranged adjacent to the sheet stacking region, for preventing at least one sheet to be stacked from being drawn into the sheet extraction device from the sheet stacking chamber by the sheet transporting means.

Disclosed is a paper sheet storage cassette (for example, banknote collection cassette 42) that includes: a stacking unit (for example, ascending/descending stage 46) in which paper sheets (for example, banknotes) inserted into the paper sheet storage cassette from the outside are stacked in a layered state; a stacking wheel 44 configured to send paper sheets inserted into the paper sheet storage cassette from the outside, one by one, to the stacking unit; a paper sheet passing space (for example, banknote passing space 48) through which the paper sheets to be sent into the stacking unit by the stacking wheel 44 pass; and an inhibiting portion 50 configured to inhibit the paper sheets stacked in the stacking unit from being moved toward the paper sheet passing space.

Disclosed is a paper sheet storage cassette (for example, banknote collection cassette 42) that includes: a stacking unit (for example, ascending/descending stage 46) in which paper sheets (for example, banknotes) inserted into the paper sheet storage cassette from the outside are stacked in a layered state; a stacking wheel 44 configured to send paper sheets inserted into the paper sheet storage cassette from the outside, one by one, to the stacking unit; a paper sheet passing space (for example, banknote passing space 48) through which the paper sheets to be sent into the stacking unit by the stacking wheel 44 pass; and an inhibiting portion 50 configured to inhibit the paper sheets stacked in the stacking unit from being moved toward the paper sheet passing space.

A diverter conveyor includes a frame supporting an upper conveyor that has an upstream end and a downstream end and that is configured to carry sheets in a first, downstream, direction. A plurality of nip rollers are mounted on the frame upstream of the upstream end of the upper conveyor and are spaced from the upstream end of the upper conveyor by a gap. The nip rollers feed the sheets along a main path to the upstream end of the upper conveyor. A rejection conveyor is supported by the frame and has a portion beneath the gap and extends away from the upper conveyor at an acute angle. A plurality of paddles are mounted at the first gap, and an actuator is operably connected to the paddles and configured to shift the paddles from a first position out of the main path to a second position in the main path.

A sheet stacking system includes a main conveyor configured to carry sheets in a downstream direction, an accumulator section downstream of the main conveyor configured to receive the sheets from the main conveyor, at least one tamping plate in the accumulator section, and at least one linear motor connected to the at least one tamping plate. The at least one linear motor is configured to move the at least one tamping plate back and forth in a direction perpendicular to the downstream direction to tamp a stack of the sheets in the accumulator section.

User labor relating to determining on an alignment condition is reduced and a stable conveying operation is realized by aligning a sheet bundle also when a sheet bundle is added. A sheet bundle composed of multiple sheet materials is placed on a loading platform. An encoder pulse unit detects the amount of the sheet bundle placed on the loading platform based on the opening amount of a pressure plate. A control unit determines on an alignment condition according to the amount of the sheet bundle. Rotating members align the sheet bundle in accordance with the alignment condition. When it is determined that another sheet bundle has been added to the loading platform, the control unit updates the alignment condition according to the total amount of the other sheet bundle and the sheet bundle remaining on the loading platform.