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US 8,505,904 B2Granted
Bookbinding device and print-medium post-treatment apparatus having the same
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsJi Hoon Min, Chang Soo Byun
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Abstract
A bookbinding device and a print-medium post-treatment apparatus having the same. In the bookbinding device, when a print medium drops and is loaded a stack plate, a drop position of a leading end of the print medium is changed according to a size of the print medium. This prevents sequence upset of print media when the print media are stacked one above another on the stack plate.
Claims16
A bookbinding device usable with an image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a stack plate disposed to receive a print medium along a stacking direction;
- a guide plate disposed to receive the print medium and to guide the received print medium toward the stack plate;
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- a guide member disposed in a space formed between the stack plate and the guide plate to move within the space and configured to be driven by a guide motor,
- wherein the guide member is disposed at vertically different positions depending on a size of the print medium stacked on the stack plate, and configured to guide the print medium toward the stack plate by making contact with the print medium falling from the guide plate at each of the vertically different positions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.