A medium transport device includes a transport unit configured to transport a medium in a transport direction, a winding unit configured to wind the medium, a tension applying unit configured to apply a tension to the medium between the transport unit and the winding unit, a drive unit configured to drive the tension applying unit, and a controller configured to control the drive unit, in which the controller is configured to control the drive unit such that an application of the tension by the tension applying unit is released at a time when a subsequent transport operation by the transport unit is started after a termination of an winding operation of the medium by the winding unit.

A heater of a sheet feeding device warms up a bundle of sheets set in a sheet cassette to dehumidify it. A first terminal makes contact with the topmost sheet. A second terminal makes contact with the bottommost sheet. When judging the necessity for dehumidification, a controller determines a judging resistance value based on the magnitude of a current passing through the bundle of sheets with a detection voltage applied to the first terminal. When the judging resistance value is equal to or lower than a threshold value, the controller operates the heater. When the determined judging resistance value is higher than a threshold value, the controller does not operate the heater.

A web handling system is disclosed. The web handling system includes first dancer rollers coupled to engage and move a web of a print medium in a forward and backward direction upon stopping a printing operation and allow forward motion during the printing operation.

Provided is a recording device including a conveying portion configured to convey a medium in a conveying direction, a recording unit configured to record on the medium conveyed in the conveying direction, a guiding portion disposed further downstream in the conveying direction than the recording portion and configured to change the conveying direction while guiding conveyance of the medium, a winding portion disposed further downstream in the conveying direction than the guiding portion and configured to wind the medium, and a heating portion configured to heat the medium disposed between the recording portion and the winding portion in the conveying direction, heat the guiding portion, and heat the winding portion.

Disclosed is a sheet feeding apparatus configured to be attached to an image forming apparatus. The sheet feeding apparatus includes a frame body and a locking member provided on an upper part of the frame body, the locking member being configured to be movable between a locking position where the frame body is locked to the image forming apparatus and a releasing position where the locking of the frame body is released, wherein in attaching the heating unit to an attaching position of the frame body, the locking member is configured to restrict a movement of the heating unit to the attaching position by interfering with the heating unit when the locking member is located at the releasing position and to allow a movement of the heating unit to the attaching position when the locking member is located at the locking position.

A web handling system is disclosed. The web handling system includes first dancer rollers coupled to engage and move a web of a print medium in a forward and backward direction upon stopping a printing operation and allow forward motion during the printing operation.

A liquid discharge apparatus includes a conveyance path, a liquid discharge head, and a drying device. A medium is to be conveyed on the conveyance path. The liquid discharge head discharges liquid onto the medium conveyed on the conveyance path. The conveyance path includes a switchback path and an ejection path. The switchback path switches back a conveyance direction of the medium onto which the liquid has been discharged. The ejection path conveys the medium onto which the liquid has been discharged to an ejection port. The drying device dries the medium both on the switchback path and on the ejection path.

A heated roller, in particular for a textile printer, comprising: a pair of stationary supports, an elongated tubular element located between said stationary supports and rotatably carried by said stationary supports about a longitudinal axis, a stationary infrared lamp extending inside said tubular element and having opposite ends supported by said stationary supports, a lamp support device extending between said stationary supports inside said tubular element and supporting the infrared lamp between said stationary supports, and an elastic device which applies an elastic tension to said lamp support device between said stationary supports in the direction of said longitudinal axis.

The present invention relates to a machine for the production of a component for an aerosol generating article, the machine including: a buffer station, the buffer station including: # fixed sheet guides; # movable sheet guides which are movable in a reciprocating manner in a direction towards the fixed sheet guides and in a direction away from the sheet fixed guides; # an actuator for moving the movable sheet guides, wherein the fixed and movable sheet guides together define a zig-zag trajectory for the sheet having a variable length for varying the total length of the sheet of material in the buffer station; # supports for the sheet, the supports being arranged so that, when the movable sheet guides are moved towards the fixed sheet guides, at least one of the movable sheets guides is interposed between two different supports of the plurality; # an air system; # wherein the each of the supports defines an outer surface, at least one of the outer surfaces having a first portion in which a sucking action is exerted by the air system to attract the sheet towards the outer surface and a second portion in which a blowing action is exerted by the air system to push the sheet away from the outer surface.

A manufacturing method includes: a first step for winding up paper to form paper roll; a second step for inserting an insertion section, which ejects an adhesive, into a center hole of the paper roll; a third step for causing the adhesive to adhere to a predetermined position of the center hole; and a fourth step for performing a heating and drying process on an area to which the adhesive is adhered to harden opposite ends of the center hole. The third step includes causing the adhesive to adhere to near opposite extending ends of the center hole. The adhesive has adhesive strength to an extent that the paper wound up into the roll shape is peelable when the paper roll is to be used. The fourth step includes drying the adhesive adhered to the center hole before the adhesive spreads from the predetermined position of the center hole.