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US 2003/0044209 A1Published application
Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus provided with the same
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKenichiro Isobe, Yasuyoshi Hayakawa, Takashi Kuwata, Masayoshi Fukatsu, Junichi Sekiyama
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Abstract
A cover for forming an outer appearance of a stapler unit for performing a stapling process to a sheet bundle serves also as a part of an outer shell of an apparatus body, and the stapler unit is provided selectively to the apparatus body movably between a position for stapling the sheet bundle and a position for replacing staple cartridges, to thereby make it possible to readily perform a jam process or staple replacement.
Claims22
A sheet processing apparatus provided with stapler means for performing a stapling process to a sheet bundle,
- said stapler means comprising a detachably mountable staple cartridge, and a cover that forms an outer appearance of said stapler means and serving also as an outer shell of said sheet processing apparatus, and said stapler means being provided in an apparatus body selectively movably between a stapling position for stapling the sheet bundle and a position for replacing the staple cartridge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.