B31F 5/001
Attaching together sheets, strips or webs: by stapling or riveting
Official title: {by stapling or riveting}
B31F5/001 (Attaching together sheets, strips or webs: by stapling or riveting) appears on 45 US grants and 43 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B31F- Granted patents
- 45
- Published applications
- 43
- Assignees
- 17
- Inventors
- 104
- Latest grant
- 26 May 2026
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| 2026 | 3 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Electric stapler9 Jul 2026US 2026/0192483 A1
- Thickness detection device, sheet processing apparatus, and image forming system24 Jul 2025US 2025/0237987 A1Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Medium processing apparatus and image forming system incorporating same5 Jun 2025US 2025/0178304 A1Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Machine for joining sheet material, preferably cardboard24 Apr 2025US 2025/0128490 A1Gazzella Atlantique
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Lamination anchoring method and product thereof83US 4,770,920 APaper-Pak Products, Inc. · 1988
- Lamination anchoring method and product thereof19US 4,735,846 APaper-Pak Products, Inc. · 1988
- Sheet bundle binding processing apparatus and image forming system having the same12US 9,409,740 B2Canon Finetech Inc. · 2016
- Sheet binding processing apparatus and image forming system11US 9,139,397 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2015
- Post-processing device and image forming apparatus9US 9,969,144 B1Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. · 2018