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US 2018/0348692 A1Published application
Sheet binding apparatus and image forming system
AssigneeCanon Finetech Nisca Inc.
InventorKenji YOSHIDA
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a sheet binding apparatus that comprises a first binding unit provided and a second binding unit configured to perform needle binding on sheets, and a second binding unit configured to perform non-needle binding on sheets. A needle replenishing position where needles are replenished in the first binding unit is set in the vicinity of the second binding unit.
Claims15
A sheet binding apparatus comprising:
- a first binding unit provided to move along one side of each sheet and between both ends thereof, and configured to perform needle binding on the sheets,
- a second binding unit provided at one end of the side of each sheet, and configured to perform non-needle binding on the sheets,
- wherein a needle replenishing position where needles are replenished in the first binding unit is set at one end of each sheet located at the second binding unit.
A sheet binding apparatus comprising:
- a transporting section configured to transport sheets;
- a processing tray configured to hold the sheets transported from the transporting section;
- a first binding unit configured to perform needle binding on the sheets held on the processing tray;
- a second binding unit arranged at one end of the processing tray and configured to perform non-needle binding on the sheets held on the processing tray;
- a needle-replenishing position where needles are replenished in the first binding unit, the needle-replenishing position being located at one end of the processing tray and adjacent to the second binding unit;
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- a moving mechanism configured to move the first binding unit to the needle-replenishing position.
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An image forming system configured to form an image on a sheet and to perform a post-processing on the sheet, comprising:
- an image forming apparatus having an image forming section configured to form an image on a sheet, and a sheet ejecting section configured to eject the sheets coming from the image forming section;
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- a sheet binding apparatus having a processing tray configured to hold sheets to be bound together;
- a sheet feeding section configured to receive the sheets from the sheet ejecting section of the image forming apparatus and to feed the sheets to the processing tray;
- a first binding unit capable of moving in the sheet width direction orthogonal to the direction of feeding the sheets and configured to perform needle binding on the sheets on the processing tray;
- a second binding unit provided at one side of the processing tray, as viewed in the widthwise direction of the sheets, and configured to perform non-needle binding on the sheets;
- a moving mechanism configured to move the first binding unit to a prescribed position at said one side of the processing tray;
- a first opening made in one end of that side of the processing tray and exposing at least one part of the first binding unit moved to the prescribed position;
- and a second opening made in the end of that side of the processing tray and exposing at least one part of the second binding unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.