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US 2011/0031677 A1Published application
Sheet finishing apparatus
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShogo OZAWA
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Abstract
A stapling apparatus includes: a processing tray; a paper discharge unit configured to discharge sheets on the processing tray; an aligning unit configured to align sheets manually inserted onto the processing tray from a paper discharge port of the paper discharge unit; and a stapler configured to staple the sheets manually inserted on the processing tray.
Claims20
A stapling apparatus comprising:
- a processing tray;
- a paper discharge unit configured to discharge sheets on the processing tray;
- an aligning unit configured to align sheets manually inserted onto the processing tray from a paper discharge port of the paper discharge unit;
- and
- a stapler configured to staple the sheets manually inserted on the processing tray.
2 more elements
A sheet finishing apparatus comprising:
- a processing tray on which sheets supplied from an image forming unit are placed;
- a paper discharge unit configured to discharge the sheets on the processing tray;
- an aligning unit configured to align sheets manually inserted onto the processing tray from a paper discharge port of the paper discharge unit;
- and
- a stapler configured to staple the sheets or the sheets manually inserted on the processing tray.
2 more elements
A stapling method comprising:
- inserting sheets manually onto a processing tray from a paper discharge port;
- detecting the insertion of the sheets manually inserted;
- aligning the sheets manually inserted on the processing tray;
- and
- stapling the sheets manually inserted on the processing tray.
2 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.