Bookbinding apparatus and image-forming system equipped with the same
US7946565B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 31, 2008 |
| Grant date | May 24, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 27, 2029 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB42C9/0037
- WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
Imaging-system bookbinding apparatus avoids cutting any folded sheets mixed into booklets it trims. Furnished with: an imaging unit; a sheet-folding unit that folds imaging-unit sheets; a stacking unit that stacks sheets from the sheet-folding or image-forming units; a cover-sheet binding unit that encases stacking-unit sheet bundles with, and binds them into, cover sheets; a trimming unit that trims true the bundle fore-edge; and a fold-position computing unit that determines where a sheet is pleated by the sheet-folding unit. The sheet-folding unit has a sheet conveyance path along which folded sheets are transported elsewhere than the stacking unit, while the fold-position computing unit in a first control mode transports to the stacking unit sheets folded over by the sheet-folding unit, and in a second control mode transports them from the sheet conveyance path elsewhere than the stacking unit.
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