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US 2001/0042599 A1Published application
Apparatus for binding sheet media
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Company
InventorRoland Boss
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for binding documents by individually binding each media sheet to previously bound media sheets using imaging material as the binding material.
Claims12
A method for binding together a plurality of media sheets, comprising:
- applying imaging material to a binding region on a single media sheet and activating the imaging material;
- collecting the sheet together with previously collected sheets in a stack;
- reactivating the imaging material applied to the binding region of the sheet;
- and
- repeating the acts of applying, collecting and reactivating for each sheet in the plurality of sheets.
2 more elements
An apparatus for binding media sheets having a region of imaging material applied thereto for binding, comprising:
- a tray for collecting a plurality of media sheets;
- a heating element near the tray, the heating element movable between a first position in which the heating element is separated from the media sheets and a second position in which the heating element contacts a media sheet;
- and
- a press coupled to the heating element, the press operative for each sheet output to the tray to press the heating element against the binding region of the sheet.
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A system for producing a bound document from a plurality of media sheets, comprising:
- an image forming device configured to apply imaging material in the pattern of a desired print image to each media sheet, to apply imaging material to selected binding regions on each media sheet, and to activate the imaging material;
- and
- a binding device comprising a tray for collecting sheets output by the image forming device, a heating element near the tray, the heating element movable between a first position in which the heating element is separated from the media sheets and a second position in which the heating element contacts a media sheet, and a press coupled to the heating element, the press operative for each sheet output to the tray to press the heating element against the binding region of the sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.