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US 5,938,186 AGranted
Sheet post-processing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasaaki Sato, Yoshifumi Takehara, Kenichi Hayashi
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Abstract
A sheet post-processing apparatus includes a plurality of bin trays arranged in multiple levels with predetermined intervals; stacking device supported in said apparatus so as to be moved in an arrangement direction of said plurality of bins; discharging device for discharging a sheet; and transferring device for transferring the sheet to said stacking device from said bin tray having completed sheet reception.
Claims12
A sheet processing apparatus comprising:
- first stacking means for accommodating sheets discharged thereto;
- binding means for binding a set of the sheets, said binding means being effective to bind the sheets at an edge portion extending in a transverse direction to the sheet discharging direction;
- second stacking means for stacking sets of the sheets bound by said binding means;
- first gripping means for transferring a set of sheets from said first stacking means to said binding means, said first gripping means being effective to grip an edge portion extending along the sheet discharging direction;
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- second gripping means for transferring the set of sheets bound by said binding means to said second stacking means;
- wherein the bound edge portion is a downstream edge portion with respect to a transfer direction of the set of the sheets and said second gripping means grips the downstream edge portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.