| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gathering device which enables a gathering operation to align a plurality of sheets of stacked sheet materials quickly and exactly while hardly causing noise by a simple control, in the gathering device for gathering the sheet material. <P>SOLUTION: The gathering device includes: a plurality of pile storages which store the sheet material stacked in a plurality of sheets and are installed in a vertical direction; a plurality of gathering hoppers; a delivery means for delivering the sheets of the sheet materials from the plurality of pile storages to the plurality of gathering hoppers, which is performed during a fixed operation period; and a taking out means of taking out the sheets of the sheet materials from specified gathering hoppers, wherein, by changing a relative position in the vertical direction between the plurality of pile storages and the plurality of gathering hoppers during the fixed operation period of a subsequent period, the delivery in the horizontal direction of the sheets of the sheet materials among different combinations from the plurality of pile storages to the plurality of gathering hoppers is performed. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |
