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US 7,690,633 B2Granted
Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus including stapling and folding mechanism
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsMasahiro Tamura, Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Shuuya Nagasako, Shohichi Satoh, Akira Kunieda, Tomoichi Nomura, Hiroshi Maeda, Kazuhiro Kobayashi
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Abstract
A sheet processing apparatus may include a conveyance path and a tray. The conveyance path may convey sheets. The tray may receive the sheets conveyed from the conveyance path. The tray may include a stapler and a folding member. The stapler may staple the sheets. The folding member may fold the stapled sheets and may be provided upstream from the stapler relative to a sheet conveyance direction.
Claims16
A sheet processing apparatus, comprising:
- a conveyance path to convey sheets;
- an edge-stapling tray to receive and align the sheets conveyed from the conveyance path, the edge-stapling tray includes a stapler to staple the sheets;
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- a center-stapling tray including a stapler, disposed downstream from the edge-stapling tray relative to a sheet conveyance direction, for stapling the sheets at a position along a substantially center line of the sheets, the center-stapling tray includes a folding member to fold the stapled sheets along the substantially center line of the sheets in the sheet conveyance direction,
- wherein the center-stapling tray slants at an angle such that the sheets fall along the center-stapling tray by a weight of the sheets, and the stapler is lower than the folding member.
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An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a first conveyance path to convey sheets;
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- a sheet processing apparatus, including
- a second conveyance path to further convey the sheets conveyed from the first conveyance path, and
- an edge-stapling tray to receive and align the sheets conveyed from the second conveyance path, the edge-stapling tray includes a stapler to staple the sheets;
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- a center-stapling tray including a stapler, disposed downstream from the edge-stapling tray relative to a sheet conveyance direction, for stapling the sheets at a position along a substantially center line of the sheets, the center-stapling tray includes a folding member to fold the stapled sheets along the substantially center line of the sheets in the sheet conveyance direction,
- wherein the center-stapling tray slants at an angle such that the sheets fall along the center-stapling tray by a weight of the sheets, and the stapler is provided at a position lower than the folding member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.