Sheet finisher
AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorsTetsuo Hirata, Motoki Nakamichi, Norishige Kato, Takehiro Ogushi, Yasushi Saitsu
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Abstract
A sheet finisher includes a sheet stacker for stacking sheets conveyed from an image forming apparatus to form a sheet bundle and a binding device for binding the sheet bundle with a staple, further includes a center folding device for center folding sheets conveyed from the image forming apparatus, a first conveying device for conveying sheets conveyed from the image forming apparatus to the sheet stacker without passing through the center folding device, and a second conveying device for conveying the sheets to the sheet stacker via the center folding device.
Claims7
A sheet finisher comprising:
- (a) a sheet stacker for stacking a sheet conveyed from an image forming apparatus to form a sheet bundle;
- (b) a binder for binding the sheet bundle with a staple;
- (c) a center-folding device for folding a center of the sheet conveyed from the image forming apparatus;
- (d) a first conveyance device for conveying the sheet conveyed from the image forming apparatus without passing through the center-folding device;
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- (e) a second conveyance device for conveying the sheet conveyed from the image forming apparatus passing through the center-folding device.
A sheet finisher for stacking a sheet conveyed from an image forming apparatus, to form a sheet bundle, and for binding the sheet bundle, the sheet finisher comprising:
- (a) a first binder for binding the sheet bundle with a staple;
- (b) a second binder for binding the sheet bundle with a binding tape;
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- (c) a sheet stacker for commonly use in the first and second binders.
A sheet finisher comprising:
- (a) a first sheet stacker for stacking a sheet conveyed from an image forming apparatus to form a sheet bundle;
- (b) a first binder for binding the sheet bundle stacked on the first stacker with a staple;
- (c) a second sheet stacker for stacking sequentially the sheet bundle which has been bound by the first binder;
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- (d) a second binder for binding the sheet bundle stacked on the second sheet stacker with a binding tape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.