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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 08, 1997
Ryo Hirano, Toyohashi, JP;
Shinji Wakamatsu, Toyokawa, JP;
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A finisher incorporating therein a stapler for accumulating a plurality of sheets and performing a stapling treatment on a bundle of accumulated sheets, comprising first sheet bundle conveying rollers disposed on the upstream side of the stapler relative to the direction of conveyance of the bundle of sheets and formed of a pair of rollers capable of converging toward and diverging from each other, second sheet bundle conveying rollers disposed on the downstream side of the stapler relative to the direction of conveyance of the bundle of sheets and formed of a pair rollers capable of converging toward and diverging from each other, and a sheet end detector disposed near the downstream side of the second sheet bundle conveying rollers and adapted to detect the leading end of the bundle of sheets in the direction of conveyance.