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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2021
Applicant:
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Hiroyuki Taguchi, Tagata Shizuoka, JP;
Assignee:
TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 37/06 (2006.01); B65H 45/16 (2006.01); B65H 37/04 (2006.01); B65H 45/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 45/167 (2013.01); B65H 37/04 (2013.01); B65H 37/06 (2013.01); B65H 45/18 (2013.01); B65H 2301/512 (2013.01); B65H 2801/27 (2013.01);
Abstract
A sheet post-processing apparatus includes a stacker, a pair of folding rollers having a nip portion therebetween, and a blade. A sheet is stacked on the stacker. The blade is configured to fold the sheet in half by pushing the sheet stacked on the stacker into the nip portion of the pair of folding rollers. The pair of folding rollers are configured to switch between a first posture and a second posture. In the first posture, the sheet is pushed into the nip portion by the blade. In the second posture, a feeding direction of the sheet is different from that in the first posture.