Sheet-material associating – Associating or disassociating – Sheet associating
Patent
1997-02-21
1998-06-16
Nguyen, Hoang
Sheet-material associating
Associating or disassociating
Sheet associating
370 5812, 370 5813, B65H 3902
Patent
active
057658242
ABSTRACT:
In a sheet finisher for use with an image forming apparatus, for receiving and aligning sheets discharged from the image forming apparatus, for then stapling the sheets together and for ejecting the stapled sheets to an exit tray, the sheet finisher includes: an intermediate stacker for receiving, aligning and stapling sheets discharged from the image forming apparatus; a conveyor for superimposing a first sheet and a second sheet in a sheet conveyance path upstream of the intermediate stacker, and then for conveying the superimposed sheets to the intermediate stacker to form a succeeding set of sheets to be stapled which follows a preceding set of sheets to be stapled in the intermediate stacker; a driver for driving the conveyor; and a controller for controlling the driver with respect to an operation timing of the driver.
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Kataoka Hirotaka
Kawano Masanobu
Kawano Minoru
Matsumoto Toshitaka
Okabe Hirohiko
Bierman Jordan B.
Konica Corporation
Nguyen Hoang
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