Paper separation mechanism of stapleless binder
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsEiji Fukasawa, Taehong Kim, Jeongyeon Park
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Abstract
A post-processing apparatus includes a paper alignment tray including a loading table on which a paper is to be loaded, and a side guide and an end guide to align a side in a width direction and an end in a longitudinal direction of the paper stack, respectively, a first binder including a binding unit to bind the paper stack on the paper alignment tray in a stapleless manner, the first binder displaceable to a binding location to bind the paper stack and to a separation location to separate the binding unit from the paper stack, and a controller to move the paper stack relative to the binding unit while displacing the first binder from the binding location to the separation location.
Claims20
A post-processing apparatus comprising:
- a paper alignment tray including a loading table on which a paper stack is to be loaded, and a side guide and an end guide to align a side in a width direction and an end in a longitudinal direction of the paper stack, respectively, when the paper stack is loaded on the loading table;
- a first binder including a binding unit to bind the paper stack on the paper alignment tray in a stapleless manner, the first binder displaceable to a binding location to bind the paper stack and to a separation location to separate the binding unit from the paper stack;
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- a controller to move a bound paper stack in a direction away from to the binding unit while simultaneously displacing the first binder from the binding location to the separation location, to cause the binding unit to separate from the bound paper stack.
A post-processing apparatus comprising:
- a paper alignment tray including a loading table on which a paper stack is to be loaded, and a side guide and an end guide to align a side in a width direction and an end in a longitudinal direction of the paper stack, respectively;
- a first binder including a binding unit to bind the paper stack on the paper alignment tray in a stapleless manner, the first binder rotatable to a binding location to bind the paper stack and to a separation location to separate the binding unit from the paper stack;
- a controller to move a bound paper stack in a direction away from the binding unit while simultaneously rotating the first binder from the binding location to the separation location, to cause the binding unit to separate from the bound paper stack;
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- an elastic member to apply an elastic force to the first binder in a direction at the binding location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.