According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an accommodation unit and at least one driving roller. The accommodation unit accommodates a paper sheet therein. The at least one driving roller is disposed contactably with the paper sheet. A rotation direction of the at least one driving roller with respect to the paper sheet at a contact part between the paper sheet and the roller intersects a carrying direction of the paper sheet.

A feed assembly for transferring an uncoiled sheet material to a downstream material forming operation. The assembly includes upper and lower feed rolls between which the sheet material passes, the upper roll being actuated between engaging or disengaging positions relative to an upper surface of the sheet material. At least one continuous force applying component is provided for exerting a hold down force against the upper feed roll and, in combination, a programmable counterbalance component is calibrated to counter the hold down force exerted by the force applying component and in order to cycle the upper roller between the engaged and disengaged positions during advance cycling of the uncoiled material to the downstream forming operation.

It is provided a method for transporting blanks. In a first step the method comprises placing said blanks in a magazine (100), wherein the magazine (100) comprises a first bar (106a, 106f) and a second bar (106b, 106e), said first bar (106a, 106f) being moveable in a first direction being substantially horizontal and coinciding with a transport direction and a second direction being substantially vertical. In a second step the method comprises moving said first bar (106a, 106f) such that said blanks are moved in said transport direction and such that said blanks are alternately placed on said first bar (106a, 106f) and said second bar (106b, 106e).

A banknote separation apparatus, for a banknote bundle receiving machine, includes a guide unit, a pickup roller unit, a pickup roller raising/lowering unit, a feeding roller unit and a gate roller unit. The guide unit is provided on a route along which a banknote bundle inputted into the banknote bundle receiving machine is moved. The pickup roller unit is provided above the guide unit in a spaced-apart relationship with the guide unit and configured to separate a banknote from the banknote bundle and to feed the banknote. The pickup roller raising/lowering unit is configured to raise or lower the pickup roller unit. The feeding roller unit is provided on a back side of the pickup roller unit. The gate roller unit is provided under the feeding roller unit and configured to maintain a predetermined distance from the feeding roller unit.

According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an accommodation unit and at least one driving roller. The accommodation unit accommodates a paper sheet therein. The at least one driving roller is disposed contactably with the paper sheet. A rotation direction of the at least one driving roller with respect to the paper sheet at a contact part between the paper sheet and the roller intersects a carrying direction of the paper sheet.

A sheet conveying device includes a drive device, a conveyance device, an optical unit, a white reference member, and a transmission device. The drive device generates a driving force. The conveyance device conveys a sheet by a rotary driving force of the drive device. The optical unit includes an image reading unit that extends in a longitudinal direction thereof along a widthwise direction orthogonal to a direction of conveyance of the sheet, applies light to the sheet, and reads light reflected from the sheet with an image sensor. The white reference member extends in the longitudinal direction of the image reading unit and is read by the image reading unit. The transmission device transmits the driving force generated by the drive device to rock the optical unit in the widthwise direction. The transmission device includes a rocking member that rocks the optical unit in a longitudinal direction thereof.

When a user opens an opening/closing portion for accessing an inside of a housing, a shaft member is displaced in a +Z direction by a biasing force of a spring, and moves a lever member in the +Z direction. A rotation shaft rotates in a +? direction along with displacement of the shaft member in the +Z direction. As a result, a cam rotates in the +? direction together with the rotation shaft, and presses, by a projection portion, a cam reception portion of an arm unit main body in a ?X direction against the biasing force of the spring. Due to this, the cam rotates the arm unit main body in a ?? direction. Then, a driven roller moves the +Z direction along with rotation of the arm unit main body in the ?? direction, and is switched from a nip state to a non-nip state.

According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an accommodation unit and at least one driving roller. The accommodation unit accommodates a paper sheet therein. The at least one driving roller is disposed contactably with the paper sheet. A rotation direction of the at least one driving roller with respect to the paper sheet at a contact part between the paper sheet and the roller intersects a carrying direction of the paper sheet.

A contact-and-separation system includes a first roller, a second roller, and a contact-and-separation device. The first roller contacts a belt. The second roller is opposed to the first roller. The contact-and-separation device contacts or separates the belt to or from the second roller via a sheet conveyed. The contact-and-separation device includes an eccentric cam, a motor, and a circuitry. The eccentric cam is mounted on an end of a rotation shaft of the first roller. The motor rotates the eccentric cam. The circuitry controls the motor to rotate the eccentric cam to contact or separate the belt to or from the second roller via the sheet conveyed. The circuitry controls the motor to decelerate a rotation speed of the motor on contact or separation of the belt to or from the second roller between the first roller and the second roller.

Disclosed is a corrugated paperboard box making machine which comprises a feeding control mode setting unit for setting a feeding control mode to one of a first feeding control mode for controlling a sheet feeding apparatus and a second feeding control mode for controlling the sheet feeding apparatus such that the sheet feeding operation is performed plural times during the period of time in which the printing rotor is rotated 360 degrees, and a control apparatus for controlling the sheet feeding apparatus according to the set feeding control mode. The control apparatus is operable to execute a sheet feeding stop control processing of, when the second feeding control mode is set, controlling the sheet feeding apparatus such that the sheet feeding operation is stopped at least once after execution of the sheet feeding control processing.