Sheet processing apparatus with pressing unit, and image forming system
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorKazuya YAMAMOTO
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Abstract
A sheet processing apparatus includes: a stacking unit that stacks conveyed sheets; an aligning unit that aligns the sheets stacked on the stacking unit in a sheet conveying direction; a binding unit that moves along an end portion of a bundle of the sheets on a binding portion side and performs a binding process for the bundle of the sheets that have been aligned by the aligning unit; a pressing unit that presses the bundle of the sheets at the end portion thereof on the binding portion side; and an interlocking unit that moves the pressing unit in association with a motion of the binding unit.
Claims9
1-13. (canceled)
A sheet processing apparatus comprising:
- a stacking unit that stacks conveyed sheets;
- an aligning unit that aligns the sheets stacked on the stacking unit in a sheet conveying direction;
- a binding unit that moves along an end portion of a bundle of the sheets on a binding portion side and performs a binding process for the bundle of the sheets that have been aligned by the aligning unit:
- and
- a pressing unit that presses the bundle of the sheets at the end portion thereof on the binding portion side,
- wherein the pressing unit includes a first pressing member and a second pressing member,
- when the binding unit moves in one direction, the binding unit engages with the first pressing unit by an engaging unit and moves the first pressing unit in the one direction, and
- when the binding unit moves in another direction, the binding unit engages with the second pressing unit by the engaging unit and moves the second pressing unit in the another direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.