Sheet processing apparatus and image forming system
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorAkira Tsunoda
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Abstract
A sheet processing apparatus including: an accumulating section on which a sheet is accumulated; a staple inserting section which is provided above the accumulating section; a staple receiving section which is provided so as to face the staple inserting section across a sheet bundle accumulated on the accumulating section; and a movement section which moves an inserting unit or the accumulating section according to a thickness of the sheet bundle so that the inserting unit faces a predetermined position on an upmost sheet of the sheet bundle, wherein the staple inserting section includes the inserting unit which inserts a staple into the sheet bundle by rotating toward the sheet bundle.
Claims5
A sheet processing apparatus comprising:
- an accumulating section including a saddle unit on which a sheet is accumulated;
- a staple inserting section which is provided above the accumulating section and includes an inserting unit which inserts a staple into a sheet bundle by rotating toward the sheet bundle;
- a staple receiving section which is provided so as to face the staple inserting section across the sheet bundle accumulated on the accumulating section, the sheet bundle being accumulated on the saddle unit over the staple receiving section;
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- a movement section which inclines the saddle unit of the accumulating section to an inclined state according to a thickness of the sheet bundle so that stapling is performed to the sheet bundle on the saddle unit while maintaining the inclined state of the saddle unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.