A conveyor includes: a first guide plate including: a first roller shaft; and a first roller having a first hardness and attached to the first roller shaft; and a second guide plate disposed opposite to the first guide plate and including: a second roller shaft; a second roller having a second hardness higher than the first hardness of the first roller and attached to the second roller shaft, wherein parallelism between the first roller shaft and the second roller shaft is variable, and the first guide plate and the second guide plate guide the target, and the first roller and the second roller nips and conveys the target in a conveyance direction.

A machine for packaging articles into bags made of heat-sealable flexible material starting from a reel of a continuous web having two superimposed flat layers mutually permanently joined along one side and providedalong the other sidewith an openable closure. The machine includes a device for supplying the web having a pair of superimposed parallel guide rollers arranged transversely on opposite sides with respect to the web and whose angular position with respect to the advancement direction of the web is adjustable. The two guide rollers have a superficial shape suitable to avoid both the formation of irregularities of the websuch as folds and creasesas well as the damaging of the openable closure.

In a centering mechanism and a paper sheet handling apparatus including the centering mechanism, a centering unit conveys a paper sheet in a pinched state, and centers a position of the paper sheet in a width direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction of the paper sheet by inclining with respect to the conveyance direction. In addition, the paper sheet is delivered to a downstream side conveyance unit from the centering unit in a state in which the centering unit pinches the paper sheet, and the downstream side conveyance unit conveys the paper sheet while pinching the paper sheet at pinch pressure stronger than pinch pressure at which the centering unit pinches the paper sheet.

A sheet conveying device, which is incorporated in an image forming apparatus, includes a first detector to detect an angle deviation of a recording medium to a sheet conveying direction, a second detector to detect a lateral shift of the recording medium to a width direction, a third detector to detect at least one of the angle deviation and the lateral shift after correction of the angle deviation detected by the first detector and the lateral shift detected by the second detector, and a rotary body to perform a primary movement by (1) rotating in the sheet conveying direction and returning to a reference position and by (2) moving in the width direction and returning to the reference position, and a secondary movement by performing at least one of (1) and (2) after the primary movement.

A sheet conveying device includes a correcting portion and a side end detecting portion for detecting a side end of a sheet. The correcting portion includes a first roller whirlable about a first axis in a crossing direction crossing a conveyance direction and a widthwise direction and for correcting a position of the sheet in the widthwise direction, and a second roller disposed at a position different from the first roller in the widthwise direction, whirlable about a second axis in the crossing direction and for correcting the position of the sheet. Based on a detection result of the side end detecting portion, a control portion executes a first control in which the correcting portion corrects the position of the sheet in the widthwise direction and executes a second correcting control in which the correcting portion corrects the position of the sheet after the first correcting control.

A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a first skew correcting portion, a second skew correcting portion, an acquisition unit, a control unit. The first skew correcting portion corrects skew of a sheet by abutting a leading edge of the sheet against the first roller pair to form a bend in the sheet. The second skew correcting portion corrects skew of a sheet by conveying the sheet with a turning motion. When a first sheet with a length of a first length is conveyed, the control unit corrects the skew of the first sheet by the second skew correcting portion. When a second sheet with a length of a second length longer than the first length is conveyed, the control unit corrects the skew of the second sheet by the first skew correcting portion, and configured not to correct the skew of the second sheet by the second skew correcting portion.

A medium transport device includes a first roller, a second roller, a first rotation shaft supporting the first roller, a displacement mechanism configured to displace the first rotation shaft to a first position P1 where the first roller and the second roller are configured to nip the medium and to a second position P2 where both and are separated from each other, and a door configured to rotate into an opened position and into a closed position around an axis that intersects the first rotation, wherein the door includes an acting section, the displacement mechanism includes an action receiving section, and when the door rotates to the closed position and the acting section no longer pushes the action receiving section, the displacement mechanism displaces the first rotation shaft from the first position to the second position.

A medium transport device includes a first roller 9, a second roller 11, a first rotation shaft 13 supporting the first roller, a displacement mechanism 15 configured to displace the first rotation shaft to a first position P1 where the first roller and the second roller are configured to nip the medium and to a second position P2 where both 9 and 11 are separated from each other, and a door 7 configured to rotate into an opened position and into a closed position around an axis that intersects the first rotation, wherein the door includes an acting section 17, the displacement mechanism includes an action receiving section 19, and when the door 7 rotates to the closed position and the acting section 17 no longer pushes the action receiving section 19, the displacement mechanism displaces the first rotation shaft 13 from the first position to the second position.