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US 2009/0267282 A1Published application
Sheet process apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsDaisaku Kamiya, Hideki Kushida
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Abstract
Provided is a shift transport device for transporting a sheet to a sheet transport direction upstream side of a sheet process tray and for shifting the sheet. The shift transport device offsets the sheet and the sheets are stacked on a sheet process tray. Then, the sheets stacked on the sheet process tray in a state of being offset are aligned by an aligning member.
Claims9
1-11. (canceled)
A sheet aligning apparatus comprising:
- a sheet tray on which sheets are stacked,
- an aligning member configured to align the sheets stacked on the sheet tray by abutting sheets;
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- a transporting unit configured to shift the sheet in a width direction crossing with a transporting direction of the sheet and to transport the sheet onto the sheet tray,
- wherein the transporting unit shifts the sheet in the width direction and transports the sheet onto the sheet tray so that the sheets are stacked on the sheet tray in a condition that the sheets are offset in the width direction, and
- wherein said aligning member aligns the offset sheets which are stacked on the sheet tray.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.