A sheet conveyance device includes a conveyance roller pair to convey a sheet, a skew correction roller pair to correct a skew of the sheet in a state in which the skew correction roller pair is being stopped, first and second conveyance guides, and a protrusion. The first conveyance guide includes a bend contact portion to come into contact with a portion forming a bend on the first surface of the sheet. The second conveyance guides the sheet. The protrusion is disposed between the skew correction roller pair and the bend contact portion to come into contact with the first surface of the sheet. The protrusion protrudes toward the second conveyance guide from the first conveyance guide in a manner as to intersect with a straight line connecting two nip portions and the bend contact portion in a cross section perpendicular to a width direction.

A printable medium support for a printer comprises a support element to support a printable medium, wherein the support element is movable between a protruding configuration to support the printable medium, and a retracted configuration in which the support element is at least partially retracted in a first direction. The printable medium support comprises an actuating element to move the support element between the protruding configuration and the retracted configuration.

A sheet gripping mechanism includes a first sheet guide including a guide surface facing a sheet conveyance path along which a sheet is to be conveyed and a second sheet guide which faces the first sheet guide across the sheet conveyance path. The second sheet guide includes a protuberance extending toward the first sheet guide, to locations beyond the guide surface formed by the first sheet guide. When a sheet is located between the first sheet guide and the protuberance of the second sheet guide, the protuberance extends at least a portion of the sheet toward the first sheet guide to bring a part of a surface of the sheet into contact with the first sheet guide.

A bow spreader bar provides lateral stress on a web of plastic film as it travels past. An elongated arcuate bow member is supported on a rotatable support bar that can be rotated by a first actuator to adjust pitch angle of the bow member relative to the plane of the film. A second actuator mounted on a midportion of the rotatable bar has a rod connected to a center part of the arcuate member and adjusts the amount of bow or arc of the arcuate member. A remote control arrangement has a receiver coupled to the first and second actuators and a remote transmitter permitting an operator to control the pitch angle and amount of bow from a location remote from the film processing equipment.

A suction conveyor device comprising a suction arrangement having a suction side on which low pressure is generated, continuously rotating flexible conveying means made of flexible flat material having holes, an inner side enabling the conveying means to move along the suction side, and an outer side for receiving flat items in the active area of the suction side, where the conveying means moves in the transporting direction, the suction arrangement and the conveyor means designed with a transport path width in the active range perpendicular to the transporting direction. The conveying means includes continuously circulating individual, single-piece, flexible conveying means, both lateral edges thereof extending in the transporting direction at a distance from each other being at least the same as the total width of the transport path such that the individual, single-piece flexible conveyor means extend over the total width of the transport path.

In a sheet processing apparatus including a guide member that rotates by contact with a sheet processing unit, collision of the sheet processing unit with the guide member in a rotating state is avoided. A sheet conveyance apparatus includes: sheet processing units that move along one movement path intersecting a conveyance direction of a sheet; guide members that each include a fixed end rotatable about a rotation center line and support the sheet from below; a biasing member that biases the guide member so as to return to an original orientation in which a part of the guide member is located on the movement path; and a collision determination unit that determines, before at least one of the sheet processing units is moved and based on a movement start position and a target position of a movement target sheet processing unit and a size and an orientation before start of movement of the guide member, whether or not there is a possibility of occurrence of collision of the movement target sheet processing unit with the guide member in a rotating state.

A roll tape 1 is held by a tip end portion of an arm 3 connected by a pivot shaft 4 fixed to a rotating body 5, and an enlarged diameter curved surface portion 6 is provided that comes into contact with the arm 3 that pivots at a time of rotation. In an angle range in which the arm 3 is in contact with the enlarged diameter curved surface portion 6, the arm 3 is pushed in a rotation outward direction at the time of rotation such that the tape stretched from the roll tape 1 to an object 9 is wound around the object 9 while being pulled out. In an angle range in which the arm 3 is not in contact with the enlarged diameter curved surface portion 6, the tape previously pulled out from the roll tape 1 is wound around the object 9 while being wound up on the object 9. By repeating this alternately, displacement of the object from the rotation axis is suppressed, and proper winding is performed.

A sheet gripping mechanism includes a first sheet guide including a guide surface facing a sheet conveyance path along which a sheet is to be conveyed and a second sheet guide which faces the first sheet guide across the sheet conveyance path. The second sheet guide includes a protuberance extending toward the first sheet guide, to locations beyond the guide surface formed by the first sheet guide. When a sheet is located between the first sheet guide and the protuberance of the second sheet guide, the protuberance extends at least a portion of the sheet toward the first sheet guide to bring a part of a surface of the sheet into contact with the first sheet guide.

A sheet transporting device in which a curved transport path is provided downstream in a sheet transport direction from a merging section where a plurality of transport paths, which are formed by transport guides for transporting sheets, merge, is provided. The sheet transporting device includes a sheet guide member that extends towards the curved transport path from the merging section, with an extending end portion of the sheet guide member being disposed so as not to contact the transport guides. The sheet guide member reduces jumping up of a trailing end portion of a sheet caused by flexing of the sheet passing through the merging section towards the curved transport path.

A recording apparatus includes a feeding section that feeds a rolled continuous paper into an apparatus body, a recording section disposed in the apparatus body, the recording section performing recording onto the continuous paper fed from the feeding section in the apparatus body, a first transport path along which the continuous paper is transported during the recording performed on the medium by the recording section, and a second transport path along which the continuous paper is transported to be rewound onto the feeding section. The second transport path is different from the first transport path.