Fold-enhancing device, post-pressing apparatus equipped with fold-enhancing device, and processing apparatus equipped with fold-enhancing device
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorHiroaki Awano
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Abstract
A fold-enhancing device includes a pressing member, at least one retaining member, and a moving mechanism. The pressing member presses against a fold line of a recording-medium bundle folded into a booklet shape. The recording-medium bundle is obtained by stacking multiple sheets of recording media. The retaining member retains the recording-medium bundle and is provided at a position located away from the fold line in a direction intersecting the fold line and not in contact with the pressing member. The moving mechanism moves the pressing member and the retaining member in a direction extending along the fold line.
Claims8
A device comprising:
- a contact member configured to contact against a fold line of a recording-medium bundle folded into a booklet shape, the recording-medium bundle being obtained by stacking a plurality of sheets of recording media;
- at least one retaining member configured to retain the recording-medium bundle, the retaining member further configured to be provided in direct contact with the recording-medium bundle at a position located away from the fold line in a direction intersecting the fold line and not in contact with the contact member;
- a contact-noncontact mechanism configured to move the contact member and the retaining member into contact with and away from the recording-medium bundle in a thickness direction of the recording-medium bundle by moving a guide holder, attached to the contact member and the retaining member by a spring, in a groove that comes closer, in the thickness direction, to the fold line while the guide holder is moved along a direction of the fold line.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.