Minolta Company, Ltd.

Kunihiko Kanou

Masahiro Nonoyama

Kazuhito Ozawa

Shinji Wakamatsu

Yuusuke Morigami

Shinobu Seki

Tadashi Kobayashi

Ryo Hirano

Kazuhiko Nakatsuka

A finisher connected to a copying machine produces a bound booklet by inserting papers from the copying machine into a cover with an adhesive layer of a hot-melt adhesive which is coated on the inner surface of near a spine interconnecting a front board and a back board, and heating the cover and a sheaf of papers, and joining them by adhesion. Thus, the series of operations ranging from the preparation of documents through the bookbinding can be facilitated and expedited.

Finisher for use with an image forming apparatus

A finishing apparatus comprising a transport section for transporting sheets discharged from a copying machine, a tray for stacking sheets thereon, and a finishing section for transporting a set of collected sheets from the tray and for stapling the sheet set. Folding rollers for folding a sheet in two or centrally folding the sheet are provided in a sheet transport section. Sheets, in a two-folded condition or with a center fold line formed thereon, are discharged onto the tray. Sheets which have been centrally formed with the fold line are subjected to stapling on or along the fold line.

Finishing apparatus and image forming system including the apparatus

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Toyokawa, Japan

Kunihiko Kanou