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US 7,416,354 B2Granted
Sheet cutting device, sheet finisher equipped therewith, and image forming system provided therewith
AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorsMasahiro Kaneko, Toshio Shida, Hiroyuki Wakabayashi
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Abstract
A sheet cutting apparatus includes: a cutting blade for cutting a sheet; an inserting device for inserting the sheet into a cutting position to be cut by the cutting blade; a taking out device for taking out the sheet from the cutting position after the sheet has been cut by the cutting blade; and an airflow generating device provided downstream of the cutting position in a direction of taking out the sheet by the taking out device for supplying an airflow to the cutting position.
Claims8
A sheet cutting apparatus comprising:
- (a) a cutting blade for cutting a sheet;
- (b) a blade receiving member for receiving a cutting edge of the cutting blade;
- (c) a sheet receiving member provided opposite to the blade receiving member for interposing an edge of the sheet therebetween;
- (d) a taking out device for taking out the sheet from the cutting position after the sheet has been cut by the cutting blade;
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- (e) an airflow generating device provided downstream of the cutting position in a direction of taking out the sheet by the taking out device for supplying an airflow to the blade receiving member and the sheet receiving member at the cutting position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.