A hybrid device for folding textile pieces of a plurality of sizes may include a frame supporting large and small textile piece folding portions. The hybrid device may include a selector configured to operate the hybrid device in either a large textile piece folding mode or a small piece folding mode. The hybrid device may include a large piece sensor beam configured to detect a size and a shape profile of a large size textile piece including regular and irregular shapes and sizes. The large textile piece folding portion may include a plurality of folding devices configured to impart a plurality of primary folds on the large size textile piece based on data received by the large piece sensor beam. The small textile piece folding portion may include a deflector for positioning and stacking a small size textile piece on a small piece draping bar.

A system for fabricating a sheet product. A first rotatable roller includes a rotatable drum portion having an outer surface that rotates about a rotational axis in a first direction and conveys a sheet product. The rotatable drum portion also has a plurality of ports communicative between an inner surface and an outer surface. The ports extend along and around the drum portion. The first rotatable roller emits a pressurized fluid. A second rotatable roller has an outer surface arranged proximate to the outer surface of the rotatable drum portion of the first rotatable roller, and a heat source portion to heat the second rotatable roller to dry the sheet product. The second rotatable roller rotates in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction. A gap is defined between the second rotatable roller and the first rotatable roller through which the sheet product passes.

An apparatus and method for stretch wrapping of a palletized load uses film tension feedback derived from a film tension control load cell to control film dispensation. The load cell measures film tension and the film payout rates is determined by the film tension. Film tension values are used to determine when an out of bounds condition occurs, namely, when a film break has occurred, or when a possible film break is about to occur or when the film has been cut at the end of a wrapping cycle. To prevent film free end entanglement caused by a break, clamps engage the film so the film tail is controlled, eliminating the risk of recoil. The broken film tail may then be quickly and reliably reattached to the rotating load in a desired position.

A recording device includes a conveyance belt that adsorbs and conveys a medium using charge, a recording unit that performs recording on the medium conveyed by the conveyance belt, a determination unit that determines whether or not the medium is jammed, and a peeling unit that peels off the medium from the conveyance belt by blowing air. When there is a medium staying on the conveyance belt at the time of occurrence of the jam, the peeling unit peels off the medium from the conveyance belt by blowing air toward an acute angled gap in a state in which the acute angled gap is formed between the conveyance belt and the medium.

The sheet discharge device includes a sheet discharge port, a discharge member, a sheet discharge tray, and a blower mechanism. The sheets discharged through the sheet discharge port by the discharge member are stacked on the sheet discharge tray. The blower mechanism includes an air blow hole for blowing off an air flow from upward to the sheets discharged through the sheet discharge port, and a blower device coupled to the air blow hole to generate the air flow. The air blow hole, being provided upward of the sheet discharge port, is placed in at least one pair or more on both sides of a center of the sheet in its widthwise direction perpendicular to the discharge direction, and the air flow derived from the air blow hole is blown off diagonally downward from outside to inside of the widthwise direction.

The medium stacking device 30 includes a stacking platform 31 on which the image printed medium M can be placed, a movable fence MF that moves between a restriction position that restricts the edge portion of the medium M to be discharged toward the stacking platform 31 and a retreat position retreated from the restriction position, and the control section 93 that performs the control to move the movable fence MF from the restriction position to the retreat position and back to the restriction position when a placement defect of the medium M on the stacking platform 31 is detected, wherein the control section 93 determines the movement amount MA from the restriction position to the retreat position based on the medium information of the medium M and the printing information of the image.

A sheet feeding apparatus includes a supporting portion, a feeding portion, a separating portion, a type detection portion, a control portion, and a type input portion. The type input portion inputs information on a type of the sheet supported by the supporting portion. The control portion selectively executes a first mode in which the type of the sheet supported by the supporting portion is set by information detected by the type detection portion while the sheet is fed, and a second mode in which the type of the sheet supported by the supporting portion is set by the information input by the type input portion to execute feeding of the sheet. The control portion executes a setting process of setting an air blowing operation to be executed in the first mode, and a choosing process of choosing one of the first mode and the second mode.

A sheet support device includes a supporting portion, a first regulating unit, a second regulating unit, an electric fan, a duct, a cable, a fan-side holding portion, and a supporting portion-side holding portion. The duct is provided inside a first regulation plate, and air blown from the electric fan flows in the duct and is blown to a sheet supported by a supporting surface in a width direction. The cable connects to the electric fan. The fan-side holding portion secures a path of the cable in the width direction with respect to the electric fan. The supporting portion-side holding portion secures the path of the cable in the width direction with respect to the supporting portion. The supporting portion-side holding portion is positioned between two end portion imaginary planes orthogonal to the width direction at each of both end portions of a movement range of the fan-side holding portion.

Post-processing apparatus for performing given process subsequently to image forming process by image forming apparatus is disclosed. Post-processing apparatus includes: first ejector which ejects sheet; first tray which temporarily holds sheet; second tray situated downstream of first tray in ejection direction of sheet; a tray driver which moves second tray downwardly from first height position; blower which forms airstream between second tray and lower surface of sheet; and controller which controls blower and tray driver. Controller includes: blower controller which causes blower to blow air over time period in synchronization with first time period from start to end of sheet ejection by first ejector; and tray controller which causes tray driver to move second tray downwardly from first height position after first time period.

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, an apparatus body, an opening/closing unit pivotably supported by the apparatus body, the opening/closing unit having an outside surface that forms a side surface of the apparatus body in a first direction, and a sheet supporting portion pivotably supported by the apparatus body, and a feeding member configured to feed the sheet. The opening/closing unit includes a grip portion configured to be gripped to move the opening/closing unit. When viewed in a second direction opposite to the first direction in a state where the opening/closing unit and the sheet supporting portion are closed, a portion of the opening/closing unit is not covered by the sheet supporting portion, and the grip portion of the opening/closing unit is covered by the sheet supporting portion.