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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:
Dec. 21, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 27, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Aptex Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
270 5811 ; 270 5808 ;
Abstract
A sheet folding apparatus wherein a set of sheets is fed by a pair of rotatable members, and is folded by nip force between the rotatable members, the improvement residing in that a feeding speed of the sheet set by the rotatable member, is changed in accordance with a thickness of the sheet set.