Medium transporting apparatus, medium processing apparatus, and recording system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11649130-B2
Application number	US-201916583909-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 26, 2019
Priority date	Sep 28, 2018
Publication date	May 16, 2023
Grant date	May 16, 2023

Abstract

A medium transporting apparatus includes a first tray on which a medium discharged with a pair of discharge rollers that discharges a medium is mounted, a guide member that contacts the medium, which is discharge with the pair of discharge rollers, from above, and that guides the medium to the first tray, and a width direction matching member that matches an end portion of the medium, which has been discharged on the first tray, in the width direction that intersects a discharge direction of the medium. The guide member and the width direction matching member move in the width direction in an interlocked manner.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A medium transporting apparatus comprising:
a medium tray configured to hold a medium discharged from a discharge portion that discharges the medium;
a guide member configured to come in contact with the medium that has been discharged from the discharge portion, and that is configured to guide the medium to the medium tray; and
a width direction matching member configured to match an end portion of the medium, which has been discharged on the medium tray, in a width direction that intersects a discharge direction of the medium, wherein
the guide member and the width direction matching member are configured to move in the width direction in an interlocked manner, wherein
the guide member is configured to switch between a retracted position that does not interrupt discharge of the medium discharged from the discharge portion and an advanced position in which the guide member is, relative to the retracted position, advanced in a direction approaching the medium tray, the guide member being positioned at the retracted position when the medium is transported in the discharge direction from the discharge portion and the guide member being displaced from the retracted position to the advanced position when the medium that has been discharged from the discharge portion is guided to the medium tray; and
an upstream end matching member configured to match an upstream end portion of the medium, which has been discharged to the medium tray, in the discharge direction; and
a paddle configured to come in contact with the medium, which has been discharged to the medium tray, and configured to rotate, the paddle moving the medium towards the upstream end matching member, wherein
the paddle is configured to be interlocked with movements of the guide member and the width direction matching member moves in the width direction, wherein
the width direction matching member, the guide member, and the paddle are provided on both sides with respect to a center in the width direction and are, in the width direction, disposed from an outside towards the center in an order of the width direction matching member, the guide member, and the paddle.

2. The medium transporting apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the width direction matching member is configured to perform a matching operation that matches an end portion of the medium in the width direction by moving from a first position that is positioned outside the medium, which is mounted on the medium tray, in the width direction to a second position that is positioned inside the first position in the width direction, and
the guide member and the paddle are configured to be switched to a state in which the guide member and the paddle are not interlocked with the movement of the width direction matching member when the matching operation is performed.

Assignees

• Seiko Epson Corp

Inventors

• Uchibori Kenji

Classifications

• B65H2301/4213

  of a limited number of articles, e.g. buffering, forming bundles · CPC title

• B65H31/36

  Auxiliary devices for contacting each article with a front stop as it is piled · CPC title

• B65H2405/11151

  with surface inclined upwardly in transport direction · CPC title

• B65H2405/114

  Side, i.e. portion parallel to the feeding / delivering direction · CPC title

• B65H2404/1114

  Paddle wheel · CPC title