Sheet binding device and sheet binding method
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKatsuya Sasahara
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Abstract
A sheet binding device according to an embodiment includes a tape attachment unit and a sheet support unit. The tape attachment unit includes a tap holding unit configured to hold tape that is to be applied to an edge portion of a sheet bundle at a tape attachment region of the edge portion. The sheet support unit holds the sheet bundle in a state where multiple sheets forming the sheet bundle are shifted relative to each other in the edge portion when the tape is applied by the tape attachment unit. The sheet support unit also presses, in a sheet bundle thickness direction, a pressing region of the edge portion different from the tape attachment region so that there is substantially no slack along the edge portion of the sheet bundle between the pressing region and the tape attachment region.
Claims9
A sheet binding device comprising:
- a tape attachment unit including a tape holding unit configured to hold tape that is to be applied to an edge portion of a sheet bundle at a tape attachment region of the edge portion;
- a sheet shifting unit configured to shift the sheets forming the bundle so that edges of the sheets are shifted relative to each other in the edge portion in a stepwise manner;
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- a sheet support unit configured to:
- hold the sheet bundle in a state where multiple sheets forming the sheet bundle are shifted relative to each other in the edge portion in the stepwise manner when the tape is applied by the tape attachment unit, and
- press, in a sheet bundle thickness direction, a pressing region of the edge portion different from the tape attachment region so that there is substantially no slack along the edge portion of the sheet bundle between the pressing region and the tape attachment region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.