Paper-like material processing apparatus and paper-like material processing method

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EP 1 211 207 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	03.03.2004 Bulletin 2004/10

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	05.06.2002 Bulletin 2002/23

(21)	Application number: 01308951.1

(22)	Date of filing: 22.10.2001

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁷: B65H 29/60, B65H 33/06, G07D 11/00

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE TR
	Designated Extension States:
	AL LT LV MK RO SI

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Priority:

30.11.2000 JP 2000364510

(71)	Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
	Tokyo (JP)

(72)	Inventor:
	Otsuka, Toru, c/o Intellectual Property Division Minato-ku, Tokyo (JP)

(74)	Representative: Brookes Batchellor
	102-108 Clerkenwell Road London EC1M 5SA London EC1M 5SA (GB)

(54)	Paper-like material processing apparatus and paper-like material processing method

(57) A paper-like material processing method includes the steps of conveying paper-like materials, discriminating in discriminator (9) the direction of the front/back and top/bottom of paper-like materials being conveyed, a step of changing the directions of paper-like materials to prescribed directions by switching conveying paths of paper-like materials with gate (13) according to the result of discrimination, a step of stacking paper-like materials of which directions are changed, and changing the directions of succeeding paper-like materials to be stacked to the reverse direction of paper-like materials already stacked by changing the conveying path whenever paper-like materials in the prescribed number of sheets are stacked.

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