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US 2011/0301009 A1Published application
Sheet folding apparatus
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsMinoru Hattori, Akihiro Tsuno
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Abstract
A sheet folding apparatus includes a blade member having an edge configured to push a surface of a sheet so as to push the sheet into a sheet folding unit configured to fold the sheet, a pair of nipping members that is included in the sheet folding unit and nips the sheet pushed into the sheet folding unit by the blade member, a blade member moving unit that moves the blade member and a nipping member moving unit that moves the pair of nipping members. The blade member moving unit and the nipping member moving unit are driven by the same driving unit.
Claims5
A sheet folding apparatus comprising:
- a blade member having an edge configured to push a surface of a sheet so as to push the sheet into a sheet folding unit configured to fold the sheet;
- a pair of nipping members that is included in the sheet folding unit and nips the sheet pushed into the sheet folding unit by the blade member;
- a blade member moving unit that moves the blade member between a pushing position where the blade member pushes the sheet into the sheet folding unit and a position retracted from the pushing position;
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- a nipping member moving unit that moves the pair of nipping members between a nipping position where the pair of nipping members nip the sheet and a position retracted from the nipping position, wherein
- the sheet folding apparatus configured to fold the sheet by nipping the sheet between the pair of nipping members, and
- the blade member moving unit and the nipping member moving unit are driven by the same driving unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.