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US 7,726,640 B2Granted
Sheet cutting apparatus
AssigneeCanon Finetech Inc.
InventorsToshiaki Nochi, Hiroki Hommochi
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Abstract
A sheet cutting apparatus, including: a cutting knife for cutting a sheet bundle including a plurality of sheets; a sub-waste box capable of temporally receiving cutting wastage of a sheet bundle which has been cut; and a main waste box capable of receiving the cutting wastage received in the sub-waste box, in which the main waste box is constructed so that a wastage disposal operation of the cutting wastage received in the main waste box can be made while the sub-waste box temporally receives the cutting wastage.
Claims4
A sheet cutting apparatus, comprising:
- a cutting knife for cutting a sheet bundle including a plurality of sheets;
- a sub-waste box, which temporally receives cutting wastage of a sheet bundle which has been cut;
- a main waste box, which receives the cutting wastage received in the sub-waste box;
- and
- a mount detection device, which detects whether the main waste box is present,
- wherein the sub-waste box is movable between a first position, in which the sub-waste box receives cutting wastage of a sheet bundle which has been cut, and a second position, in which the sub-waste box allows cutting wastage to fall down to the main waste box, and
- wherein when the mount detection device detects that the main waste box is not present, the sub-waste box is prevented from moving to the second position.
4 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.