Sheet post-treatment apparatus having tab trimmer
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroyoshi Maruyama, Yuji Takahashi, Yoshikuni Toyama, Shinichi Tanada, Toshihiko Kusumoto, Masahiko Yashiro
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Abstract
The present invention provides a sheet post-treatment apparatus in which a tab sheet is used to sort sheet materials, comprising a tab trimmer for successively cutting each of plural tab forming sheet materials being supplied, to form tabs in the sheet materials at offset tab positions. The tab trimmer is in modular form which can be removed from the apparatus and replaced with another modular tab trimmer.
Claims14
A sheet post-treatment apparatus in which a tab sheet material is used for sorting sheet materials, comprising:
- a tab trimmer for successively cutting each of plural tab forming sheet materials being supplied, to thereby form tabs in the sheet materials at offset tab positions;
- a contain tray for containing a bundle of sheet materials while partitioning the sheet materials by the tab sheet materials;
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- a sheet inlet for introducing the sheet material into said sheet post-treatment apparatus;
- wherein said sheet post-treatment apparatus is capable of being removably mounted in a unit onto an image forming apparatus disposed upstream thereof and is replaceable with a sheet post-treatment apparatus having a different function.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming portion;
- a supply portion for supplying sheet materials to said image forming portion;
- a tab sheet supply portion for supplying a tab forming sheet material for sorting the sheet materials stacked on stacking portion;
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- a sheet post-treatment portion having a tab trimmer for successively cutting each of plural tab forming sheet materials being supplied, to thereby form tabs in the sheet materials at offset tab positions, a contain tray for containing a bundle of sheet materials while partitioning the sheet materials by the tab sheet materials, and a sheet inlet for introducing the sheet material into said sheet post-treatment portion, wherein said sheet post-treatment portion is capable of being removably mounted in a unit onto said image forming apparatus disposed upstream thereof and is replaceable with a sheet post-treatment portion having a different function.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.