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US 5,899,649 AGranted
Book-binding apparatus and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHideto Kohtani, Katsunari Suzuki, Daisuke Ishizuka
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Abstract
A book-binding apparatus conveying a bind tape in front of a tape heater and an aligned sheet bundle is urged against the bind tape pre-heated by the tape heater to glue a plurality of sheets by melted adhesive on the bind tape. An aligning time for the sheet bundle is calculated on the basis of attributes of the sheets being aligned and a conveyance start timing for the bind tape is changed in accordance with the calculated aligning time.
Claims9
A book-binding apparatus comprising:
- a heating means for heating a bind tape to melt an adhesive on the bind tape;
- an align means for aligning sheets as a sheet bundle;
- an abutting means for abutting the sheet bundle aligned by said align means against the bind tape to glue the sheet bundle;
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- a control means for controlling a heat start time of said heating means on the basis of physical properties of the sheets aligned by said align means,
- wherein said bind tape is glued to the sheet bundle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.