An apparatus and a corresponding method involve storing value documents, in particular bank notes, to a storage device and to a value-document processing system. A stacker wheel is arranged to receive value documents and dispense them one after the other. A transport device is arranged to receive the value documents dispensed one after the other by the stacker wheel and to transport them in such a way that the value documents come to lie on top of each other in a shingled manner. A storage device for storing the value documents lying on top of each other in a shingled manner is provided.

A printing apparatus, in a case of performing double-sided printing on a plurality of sheets, performs an overlap reversing operation by controlling a first sheet to stay in a reversing path to position at least a trailing edge of the first sheet in a second direction in a conveying path when conveying the first sheet to the reversing path after completion of a printing operation on a first surface of the first sheet, and controls the reversing roller to convey the first sheet and a second sheet fed by a feed roller next to the first sheet, in a state in which the first sheet staying in the reversing path and a leading edge of the second sheet in the second direction overlap each other, after completion of the printing operation on a first surface of the second sheet.

A printing apparatus includes a feeding roller configured to feed a printing sheet stacked on a stacking unit, a conveyance roller configured to convey the printing sheet fed by the feeding roller, a printing unit configured to print the printing sheet conveyed by the conveyance roller, a conveyance control unit configured to control conveyance of printing sheets so that the trailing edge of a preceding sheet as a printing sheet precedingly fed from the stacking unit and the leading edge of a succeeding sheet as a printing sheet succeedingly fed from the stacking unit overlap each other, and a determination unit configured to determine whether to convey the succeeding sheet to a position facing the printing unit while keeping an overlap state between the preceding sheet and the succeeding sheet.

A device for overlapping sheets includes at least one blower box and a supply table. Multiple sheets are guided into a region of the blower box consecutively, in the same transport direction, and are arranged at a distance from one another on the supply table. A blower nozzle is arranged in the blower box, on the side thereof facing the supply table. A blowing direction of the blower nozzle is oriented and parallel to the supply table and against the transport direction of the sheets. The supply table is arranged below the blower box and multiple blower nozzles are arranged in the blower box, one after the other, in the transport direction of the sheets, on the side thereof facing the supply table. A respective blowing direction of the blower nozzles is oriented in parallel to the supply table, and against the transport direction of the sheets.

The stacker comprises two stacking platforms and a system for conveying corrugated board sheets, configured to discharge the sheets alternatively onto one or the other of the two stacking platforms. A switching device allows for a quick switch of the conveyor system from one to the other of two operating conditions.

A printing apparatus conveys preceding and following sheets to form an overlapping portion where a trailing edge of the preceding sheet and a leading edge of the following sheet overlap each other at a printing position facing an ejection port surface of a printing unit, and prints the preceding and following sheets by ejecting ink from ejection ports based on a relative movement between the printing unit and the preceding and following sheets. The printing unit delays ink ejection timing for printing the overlapping portion of a sheet located closer to the ejection port surface at a position facing the ejection ports from ink ejection timing for printing a non-overlapping portion where the preceding sheet and the following sheet do not overlap each other in one of the preceding sheet and the following sheet.

The device for cooling an adhesive applied to a surface of bag bodies includes a transfer conveyor and a cooling conveyor. The transfer conveyor conveys the bag bodies at a transfer speed to the cooling conveyor, and the cooling conveyor conveys the bag bodies taken over from the transfer conveyor at a cooling conveyor speed. The transfer speed is higher than the cooling conveyor speed, which is why the bag bodies are arranged overlapping each other on the cooling conveyor. Due to this higher packing density, there is achieved a long dwell time of the bag bodies in the cooling conveyor at simultaneously a high flow-rate of bag bodies through the device.

The conveyor comprises two single-transport-belt conveyor subassemblies (42AL, 42AH) arranged facing each other symmetrically relative to a pinching plane of the conveyor (42A), two sets of rollers (423L, 423H) incorporated in the two conveyor subassemblies and distributed on either side of the pinching plane. A first set of rollers (423L) guides a belt (420AL) of the first conveyor subassembly and a second set of rollers (423H) guides a belt (420AH) of the second conveyor subassembly. The conveyor subassemblies comprise sets of vertically arranged jacks (424L, 424H) which are associated with the sets of rollers, each of the rollers being mounted on a dedicated respective jack.

A front end conveyor include a lower deck having a plurality of lower sheet supports, an upstream upper deck having an upstream end at the upstream end of the front end conveyor, a downstream end and a plurality of first upper sheet guides and a downstream upper deck having an upstream end, a downstream end at the downstream end of the front end conveyor, and a plurality of second upper sheet guides. The lower sheet supports and the upper sheet guides define a sheet transport path for moving sheets of material though the conveyor. The downstream end of the upstream upper deck and the upstream end of the downstream upper deck are independently pivotably mounted to the frame such that the upstream end of the upstream upper deck and the downstream end of the downstream upper deck shiftable toward and away from the lower deck.

A sheet feeding apparatus includes an apparatus body, a drawer portion including a sheet supporting portion, a feeding portion, a conveyance portion, a first conveyance guide and a second conveyance guide forming a conveyance path through which the sheet passes, and an abutment surface disposed downstream of a sheet conveyance area of the conveyance path in the drawing direction, overlaps with the conveyance path when viewed in the drawing direction, and configured to guide the sheet toward the drawer portion in a case where the drawer portion is drawn from the apparatus body in a state where the sheet is stuck across the drawer portion and the conveyance path, the abutment surface being inclined downward as the abutment surface extends downstream in the drawing direction, the abutment surface being inclined downward as the abutment surface extends upstream in the sheet feeding direction.