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US 2021/0122077 A1Published application
Three side trimmer
AssigneeHorizon International Inc.
InventorsKazuyuki Fukushima, Yoshinari Kuwabara, Tatsuaki Ida
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Abstract
A three side trimmer has a trimming unit 1, an accumulating unit 3, a discharge unit 2 and a conveying mechanism 4 conveying trimmed booklets BK to the accumulating unit. The accumulating unit has a shelf 5 movable in a vertical direction, and a drive roller conveyor 7 on the shelf. The accumulating unit, in a mode, delivers the trimmed booklets to the discharge unit at every accumulation of a predetermined number of the trimmed booklets and, in another mode, accumulates the trimmed booklets without delivering.
Claims11
A booklet processing apparatus comprising:
- a discharge unit arranged downstream of a booklet processing unit which perform processing on one or more booklets to discharge the processed booklets;
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- an accumulating unit arranged between the booklet processing unit and the discharge unit and operative to switch between a delivery mode in which the accumulating unit delivers a predetermined number of the processed booklets to the discharge unit and an accumulation mode in which the accumulating unit accumulates the processed booklets without delivering the processed booklets to the discharge unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.