SHEET STORAGE APPARATUS

• US 20190330005A1
• Filed: 04/26/2019
• Published: 10/31/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Glory Limited
• Original Assignee: Glory Limited
• Inventors: YOKOO, Tomohiro, MATSUURA, Hiroki
• Granted Patent: US 11,059,613 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 25/14 Packaging paper or like sheets, envelopes, or newspapers, in flat, folded, or rolled form
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 35/50 Stacking one article, or group of articles, upon another before packaging
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 5/106 by pushers B65B5/12 and B65B5/108 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2301/4212 of articles substantially horizontal
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2301/422544 opening processes
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2301/422548 filling or loading process
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2701/1912 Banknotes, bills and cheques or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 29/46 Members reciprocated in rectilinear path
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 31/00 Pile receivers carriers used for associating, collating or gathering articles B65H39/00
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 31/02 with stationary end support against which pile accumulates
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 31/3018 from opposite part-support elements, e.g. operated simultaneously

Abstract

A sheet storage apparatus having: a holding section that holds a storage bag for storing a sheet; a first clamping section; and a second clamping section, wherein the first clamping section and the second clamping section relatively approach to clamp the storage bag held by the holding section, and when a direction in which the first clamping section relatively approaches the second clamping section is defined as a first direction, and a direction opposite to the first direction is defined as a second direction, an end of the first clamping section in the first direction is located on a side in the first direction with respect to an end of the second clamping section in the second direction in a state in which the storage bag is clamped between the first clamping section and the second clamping section.

Claims

1. A sheet storage apparatus, comprising:

a holding section that holds a storage bag for storing a sheet;

a first clamping section; and

a second clamping section, wherein

the first clamping section and the second clamping section relatively approach to clamp the storage bag held by the holding section, and

when a direction in which the first clamping section relatively approaches the second clamping section is defined as a first direction, and a direction opposite to the first direction is defined as a second direction, an end of the first clamping section in the first direction is located on a side in the first direction with respect to an end of the second clamping section in the second direction in a state in which the storage bag is clamped between the first clamping section and the second clamping section.

2. The sheet storage apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the first clamping section comprises a plurality of first protrusions spaced apart from each other at a first distance and protruding in the first direction, and

the second clamping section comprises a plurality of second protrusions spaced apart from each other at a second distance and protruding toward a space between the first protrusions adjacent to each other.

3. The sheet storage apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a heater that heats and seals the storage bag on a lower side of the first clamping section and the second clamping section, wherein

the first distance is at most twice a distance between an upper end of the first clamping section and the heater, and

the second distance is at most twice a distance between an upper end of the second clamping section and the heater.

4. The sheet storage apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first clamping section or the second clamping section approaches each other, or is separated from each other by moving in a horizontal direction.

5. The sheet storage apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first clamping section and the second clamping section move in a vertical direction along the storage bag, in a state in which the storage bag is clamped between the first clamping section and the second clamping section.

6. The sheet storage apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first clamping section or the second clamping section is formed in a flat plate shape extending in a horizontal direction.

7. The sheet storage apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first clamping section or the second clamping section comprises a roller.

8. The sheet storage apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the storage hag comprises a side surface provided with a printed section, and the first clamping section or the second clamping section including the roller is disposed adjacent to the side surface.

9. The sheet storage apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a first support section and a second support section that support the sheet, wherein

the first support section comprises the first clamping section, and

the second support section comprises the second clamping section.