Max Co., Ltd.

Nippon Steel Sumitomo Metal Corporation

Takuya Satou

Takeshi Yamamoto

Toru Yoshie

Masaharu Ueda

Kazunori Seki

Toshiya Ishida

A clipping device is provided which comprises: a cartridge containing a belt of plate-shaped clips arranged like a belt; a pair of clamps for holding and bending the upper and lower ends of a clip occupying the front of the clip-arranged belt and thereby separating the front clip from the clip-arranged belt and fastening the end of a bundle of sheets with the separated front clip; a slider that reciprocates between the cartridge and the pair of clamps so that the clip-arranged belt is fed from the cartridge to the pair of clamps; a control unit that controls and drives the pair of clamps and the slider; and a clip-setting-detecting unit that detects whether the separated clip is held by the pair of clamps or not. The control unit has a clip-setting-detecting step in which the slider is caused to perform an operation of feeding the clip-arranged belt a predetermined number of times in a state in which the pair of clamps are opened and are ready to receive the clamp-arranged belt and, if the clamp-arranged belt is not detected by the clip-setting-detecting unit during the predetermined number of times, the pair of clamps and the slider are stopped from being driven.

Clipping device

This invention relates to a clip with which sheets can be fastened without being pricked. A plurality of long-and-narrow rectangular plate-like clips to be used in a clipping apparatus are arranged to be spaced away from the neighboring clips in parallel. The plurality of plate-like clips are connected by connecting members, and the connected unit of the clips is wound into a roll so that the connecting members are positioned outside the roll.

Clip connected unit

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Tokyo, Japan

Takuya Satou