Sheet finisher, image forming apparatus using the same, and...

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2011-04-05

2011-04-05

Nicholson, III, Leslie A (Department: 3651)

Sheet-material associating

Associating and folding

Sheet associating

C270S032000, C270S037000, C270S058070

Reexamination Certificate

active

07918441

ABSTRACT:
A sheet finisher of the invention includes: a fold unit that forms a fold line with a fold rollers; a roller unit that moves a first roller and a second roller along the fold line while pressing the fold line; a drive unit that moves the roller unit along the fold line from a standby position separate from an end of the sheet bundle; a drive motor that separates the first and the second rollers in a thickness direction at the standby position; and a nipping unit that places the sheet bundle on a first nip plate, and nips it by the first and the second nip plates. Both positions of the nip of the fold rollers and a nip of the first and second rollers are disposed to be substantially coincident with a position on an imaginary plane extending from a surface of the first nip plate.

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