Cutting apparatus and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShigeo Doi
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Abstract
A cutting apparatus includes a blade configured to cut a sheet that is conveyed along a sheet conveyance path, a scrap path through which scrap generated when the sheet is cut by the blade passes, a guide member configured to guide the sheet conveyed, and a blowing unit configured to blow air such that the air crosses the sheet conveyance path from a side opposite the scrap path with the sheet conveyance path therebetween, wherein the blowing unit blows air such that the air flows along the guide member positioned at a second position at which the scrap is allowed to enter the scrap path.
Claims11
A sheet processing apparatus comprising:
- a pair of folding rollers configured to nip and fold a sheet;
- a conveying unit configured to convey the folded sheet along a conveyance path;
- a first blade;
- a second blade configured to cut the folded sheet which has passed through the conveyance path, with the first blade, wherein the first blade and the second blade are disposed above the pair of folding rollers;
- a blowing unit configured to blow air to the first blade;
- a scrap path through which scrap generated when the sheet is cut by the first and second blades and the air blown from the blowing unit pass and which is arranged under the first and second blades;
- and
- a storage unit configured to store scrap that has passed through the scrap path,
- wherein
- a virtual horizontal line intersects the scrap path and the conveyance path.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet;
- a pair of folding rollers configured to nip and fold a sheet, on which an image is formed by the image forming unit, at a nipping portion;
- a conveying unit configured to convey the folded sheet along a conveyance path;
- a first blade;
- a second blade configured to cut the folded sheet which has passed through the conveyance path with the first blade, wherein the first blade and the second blade are disposed above the pair of folding rollers;
- a blowing unit configured to blow air to the first blade;
- a scrap path through which scrap generated when the sheet is cut by the first and second blades and the air blown from the blowing unit pass and which is arranged under the first and second blades;
- and
- a storage unit configured to store scrap that has passed through the scrap path;
- wherein
- virtual horizontal line intersects the scrap path and the conveyance path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.