A film feeding apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The film feeding apparatus comprises a delivery head. A surface of the delivery head has an air suction region and an air blowing region, and the air suction region and the air blowing region respectively include an air hole; and by cooperation of air suctioning through the air hole of the air suction region and air blowing through the air hole of the air blowing region, a film is kept nearby the delivery head in a non-contact manner in the case that the delivery head adsorbs the film.

A conveyor for conveying good. According to one embodiment the conveyor includes a holding unit for holding or releasing the goods with respect to a conveyor belt. The holding unit includes vacuum holding means and magnetic holding means. The magnetic holding means includes at least one movable element that comprises at least one magnet or has a magnet attached thereto. The movable element is able to deactivate the magnetic holding means by distancing the magnet from the conveyor belt, and is also able to be arrange in a closed position in which the movable element blocks a vacuum conduit extending through the conveyor belt.

A sheet transport apparatus includes a first belt having a first pattern of first vacuum holes, and a second belt having a second pattern of second vacuum holes. The first belt is positioned on and contacts the second belt. The first belt contacts sheets to be transported. When transporting the sheets on the first belt separated by spaces between the sheets, the first pulleys and second pulleys rotate together and the first belt and the second belt move together. When not transporting the sheets, a controller controls pulleys to move the first belt relative to the second belt so as to leave blocked-hole regions of the first belt where the spaces between the sheets are located. The blocked-hole regions are locations of the first belt where the first vacuum holes are unaligned with the second vacuum holes and the first vacuum holes are blocked by the second belt.

A manufacturing apparatus of an absorbent body includes: a duct to convey fibrillated fibers via an air flow; a first drum to allow the fibers conveyed through the duct to be accumulated on an outer peripheral face by the suction force from the interior to convey a fiber body of the accumulated fibers, the first drum being a first pattern drum to define the shape of the fiber body; a spraying device to spray absorbent particles; a second drum to convey an aggregate obtained by collecting the sprayed particles on an outer peripheral face by the suction force from the interior, the second drum being a second pattern drum to control the distribution of the aggregate; and a layering unit to layer the fiber body and the aggregate to each other.

An advancement unit (1) for causing a plurality of sheets (5) of paper, or any other material permeable to air, to move along a predetermined advancing direction (101) in a machine for paper converting, comprises a cutting group (10) which divides a web (4) made of paper, or another material permeable to air, into the sheets (5). The advancement unit (1), furthermore, provides a transfer roll (20) positioned downstream del cutting group (10), having an external surface (25) and adapted to rotate at a first predetermined angular velocity (1) about a longitudinal rotation axis (120) and to hold, alternately, on a first and on a second predetermined portion (26, 27) of the external surface (25) the head edge (5a) and the tail edge (5b) of the sheets (5) coming from the cutting group (10). A displacement group (30) is, furthermore, positioned downstream of the transfer roll (20) to move a plurality of catching members (35) along a movement trajectory (130) comprising at least one curvilinear portion (131) and at least one straight portion (132) to move the sheets (5) in a partly overlapped configuration along a predetermined advancement trajectory (135).

Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a conveyance section, an attraction section, an image forming section, and a hardware processor. The conveyance section includes conveyance surfaces on each of which a sheet can be placed and that conveys the sheet placed thereon. The attraction section that attracts the sheet onto the conveyance surfaces by sucking air from suction holes. The image forming section forms an image on the sheet. When a decrease of an attraction force by the attraction section is caused in executing a print job, the hardware processor causes one or more of the conveyance surfaces to suck and convey a non-print job sheet and then causes the one or more of the conveyance surfaces to consecutively suck and convey a print job sheet, and does not perform image formation on the non-print job sheet and performs the image formation on the print job sheet.

The present invention is to provide an electrode supply device, an electrode assembly manufacturing apparatus using the electrode supply device, an electrode supply method, and an electrode assembly manufacturing method using the electrode supply method.