To provide a plate feeder for a printing plate, reducing a space required for inversion when the printing plate housed in a cassette is took out and sent to a next process while an image forming face is inverted to be turned upside, reducing a size of a device, and enlarging a degree of freedom of layout.
A pair of nip rollers 100 is disposed to a sheet carrying part 15. After receiving a tip part of the printing plate 12 taken from the cassette 38 by a suction disk 40, the nip rollers 100 temporally send the tip part as it is and then hold a rear end part of the printing plate 12 in place of the tip part. Further, with holding the rear end part, the nip rollers are vertically inverted by 180 degrees and reversely rotated to feed the printing plate 12 to carrying rollers 108.
KOYANAGI YOSHIHIRO
KOMIYAMA KAZUOKI
KAWAMURA YOSHINORI
Kato Kazunori
Katsuichi Nishimoto
Hiroshi Fukuda