Cartridge for housing connected clip body of clip members

Abstract

A cartridge is provided which is detachably attached to a main body of a unit. The main body of the unit houses a connected clip body where a plurality of clip plates are interconnected in ribbon form by tape and wound in roll form, and the main body is equipped with a device for clipping an end portion of a sheet bundle. The cartridge has a main body (103), which is in turn formed with a chamber (102) for housing the connected clip body and a conveyer path (113) for feeding a clip plate of the connected clip body housed in the housing chamber to a clipping position by a feed unit. The housing chamber (102) is provided with an opening (105A) at its circumferential wall (105) which becomes an inlet between the housing chamber (102) and the conveyer path (113). The opening (105A) has nearly the same diameter as the diameter of the housing chamber (102). The main body (103) of the cartridge is provided with a lid body (120) for opening or closing the opening (105A), and the inlet (113a) of the conveyer path (113) is faced to the opening (105A).

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.