A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet supporting unit, a sheet feed unit, an air separation unit configured to separate the uppermost sheet by blowing the air onto a side surface of the sheet bundle supported by the sheet supporting unit, a velocity detection unit configured to detect actual velocity of a sheet fed by the sheet feed unit, a drive load detection unit configured to detect an actual drive load for feeding the sheet by the sheet feed unit, and a controller configured to control the sheet feed unit and the air separation unit. In a case where the sheet is fed by the sheet feed unit, the controller is configured to control an operation of the air separation unit depending on the actual velocity of the sheet detected by the velocity detection unit and the actual drive load detected by the drive load detection unit.

The invention relates to a roll making apparatus comprising spindles optionally having apertures for pressurized air and/or for applying a vacuum, the spindles being movable between a retracted position and an extended position; a roll engaging face configured to engage a roll carried by a spindle, upon the spindle carrying said roll moving to said retracted position, to move the roll relative to the spindle.

A medium accommodating device includes: a loading unit on which media are loadable in an up-down direction; a first restricting unit that is provided in the loading unit and restricts a position of a side portion of a medium in a width direction intersecting a transport direction of the medium according to a dimension of the medium in the width direction; an air supply unit that supplies air to plural media loaded on the loading unit to float and separate the plural media; a transporting unit that sequentially sends the media that are floated and separated by the air supply unit; a photographing unit that photographs a state in which the media are floated and separated by the air supply unit from an outside of the medium in the width direction; a second restricting unit that is attached to the loading unit when a narrow medium having dimensions in the width direction smaller than dimensions of the medium is loaded on the loading unit, and restricts a position of a side portion of the narrow medium in the width direction; and a focal distance changing unit that is installed at a position facing the photographing unit in a state in which the second restricting unit is attached, and aligns a focal point of the photographing unit with the side portion of the narrow medium in the width direction by changing a focal distance.

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.

A system for fabricating a sheet product includes a first rotatable roller assembly operative to emit a pressurized fluid through an outer surface of the first rotatable roller assembly, and a second rotatable roller assembly having an outer surface arranged proximate to the outer surface of the first rotatable roller assembly, the second rotatable roller assembly and the first rotatable roller assembly are operative to rotate in opposing directions, the second rotatable roller assembly and the first rotatable roller assembly defining a gap therebetween through which a sheet material passes in contact with the outer surface of the first rotatable roller assembly and the outer surface of the second rotatable roller assembly, the emitted pressurized fluid operative to impinge a surface of the sheet material and separate contact between the outer surface of the first rotatable roller assembly and the sheet material.

A medium feeding device includes a container member that accommodates sheet media, a discharging member disposed further than the media accommodated in the container member in a discharging direction in which the media are discharged, a hand-over member disposed above the container member at a position closer to the discharging member, a floating device disposed on a side of the media accommodated in the container member, and an auxiliary suction member disposed above the container member on a side of the hand-over member opposite to a side closer to the discharging member in the discharging direction in which the media are discharged. The auxiliary suction member is disposed closer to the hand-over member than to an end portion of the media accommodated in the container member opposite to an end portion of the media located closer to the discharging member.

A medium loading system includes: a supplier that causes multiple loaded recording media to levitate and be separated from each other by supplying air to the recording media from an edge of the recording media; an image capturing unit that captures an image of the recording media from the edge of the multiple recording media supplied with the air from the supplier; an image capturing target other than the recording media, the image capturing target being a target to be image-captured by the image capturing unit; and a processor configured to detect an abnormality in the image capturing unit in accordance with a change between multiple captured images of the image capturing target captured by the image capturing unit.

A recording-medium container device includes: a container that contains a recording-medium bundle in which multiple recording media are stacked; a blower that blows air onto the recording-medium bundle contained in the container; multiple light sources that radiate light beams having different wavelengths simultaneously onto at least one of the recording media separated from the recording-medium bundle by the air blown by the blower; and an image capturing unit that performs image-capturing of the at least one recording medium irradiated with the light beams from the multiple light sources, so as to acquire multiple captured images corresponding to the wavelengths of the light beams radiated from the light sources.

A sheet feeding apparatus includes a tray configured to support a sheet, a lifting unit configured to raise and lower the tray, an air blowing unit configured to blow air to a side edge of the sheet supported by the tray to float the sheet, an attraction and conveyance unit configured to execute a feeding operation of attracting and feeding the floated sheet, an upper surface detection unit configured to detect a lower state where an upper surface of the sheet is below a detection position, and a control unit configured to control the lifting unit and the attraction and conveyance unit. The control unit is configured to execute a mode in which the tray is raised by the lifting unit for a second time longer than a first time in which the lower state is detected.

A post processing device includes: a processing tray that supports media on which post processing is performed; a post processing section configured to perform post processing on the medium supported by the processing tray; and a blowing section configured to blow air at the medium supported by the processing tray, wherein a control section for controlling the blowing section sets a blowing amount by the blowing section to a first blowing amount when the number of sheets of medium supported by the processing tray is less than a predetermined set number of sheets and sets a blowing amount by the blowing section to a second blowing amount, which is larger than the first blowing amount, when the number of sheets of medium supported by the processing tray is equal to or greater than the set number of sheets.