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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2019
Applicant:
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kikuo Mizutani, Izu Shizuoka, JP;
Assignee:
TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 37/04 (2006.01); B65H 29/12 (2006.01); B65B 27/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 37/04 (2013.01); B65B 27/08 (2013.01); B65H 29/12 (2013.01); B65H 2301/43821 (2013.01); B65H 2301/5161 (2013.01);
Abstract
A sheet binding apparatus according to an embodiment includes a tape holding section and a guide section. The tape holding section holds a tape in at least two parts. The guide section guides a sheet bundle to between the two parts of the tape. The tape holding section bends and holds the tape to be convex to a conveying direction downstream side of the sheet bundle.