Post-processing apparatus and image forming system
AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorHitoshi TAMURA
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Abstract
A sheet finisher which binds a booklet by adhering a cover sheet to a sheet bundle composed of plurality of sheets with adhesive, includes: a coating section which coats adhesive to a spine of the sheet bundle; an adhesive container which stores the adhesive to be supplied to the coating section; a heating section which heats the adhesive stored in the adhesive container to melt the adhesive; and a degradation judging section which judges whether the adhesive stored in the adhesive container is degraded by the heating of the heating section or not.
Claims18
A sheet finisher binding a booklet by adhering a cover sheet to a sheet bundle composed of plurality of sheets with adhesive, the sheet finisher comprising:
- a coating section which coats adhesive to a spine of the sheet bundle;
- an adhesive container which stores the adhesive to be supplied to the coating section;
- a heating section which heats the adhesive stored in the adhesive container to melt the adhesive;
- and
- a degradation judging section which judges whether the adhesive stored in the adhesive container is degraded by the heating of the heating section or not.
An image forming system comprising:
- an image forming apparatus which forms image on sheets;
- and
- a sheet finisher binding a booklet by adhering a cover sheet to a sheet bundle composed of plurality of sheets with adhesive, the sheet finisher comprising:
- a coating section which coats adhesive to a spine of the sheet bundle;
- an adhesive container which stores the adhesive to be supplied to the coating section;
- a heating section which heats the adhesive stored in the adhesive container to melt the adhesive;
- and
- a degradation judging section which judges whether the adhesive stored in the adhesive container is degraded by the heating of the heating section or not.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.