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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 27, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355324 ; 355313 ; 355321 ;
Abstract
It is an object of this invention to provide a stapling apparatus which binds sheets like a book by stapling the sheets at two points in a both sides copying mode or in a mode in which a cover is added to the sheets. This stapling apparatus includes a stapling unit for selectively performing stapling at one or a plurality of points of a plurality of sheets ejected from an image forming apparatus, and a control unit for controlling the stapling unit to perform stapling at a plurality of points of sheets ejected when the image forming apparatus is in a specific mode.