Paper-leaves separating/supplying method and apparatus

摘要

In a paper-leaves separating/supplying apparatus comprising a rotary separating/supplying belt, a vacuum suction device and a separating/supplying device, the vacuum suction device takes up one by one a plurality of paper leaves set together and conveyed as far as a position at which they come into contact with a belt surface of the separating/supplying belt so that the paper leaf is attached onto the belt surface and is fed toward the downstream side in accordance with the rotary motion of the separating/supplying belt. The belt surface of the separating/supplying belt is placed in a state perpendicular to a traveling plane of the paper leaves or in a state inclined toward the paper leaves. With this construction, when the paper leaves are fed successively, the preceding paper leaf coming previously into contact with the belt surface is attracted and held on the separating/supplying belt in a state parallel with or inclined toward the succeeding paper leaf so that the weight of the succeeding paper leaf hardly fall on the preceding paper leaf. This minimizes the contact pressure between the preceding paper leaf and the succeeding paper leaf, thus achieving smooth feeding of the paper leaves.