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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 28, 1997
Toru Yoshie, Tokyo, JP;
Takuya Satou, Tokyo, JP;
Max Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A clipping device is provided which comprises: a cartridge containing a belt of plate-shaped clips arranged like a belt; a pair of clamps for holding and bending the upper and lower ends of a clip occupying the front of the clip-arranged belt and thereby separating the front clip from the clip-arranged belt and fastening the end of a bundle of sheets with the separated front clip; a slider that reciprocates between the cartridge and the pair of clamps so that the clip-arranged belt is fed from the cartridge to the pair of clamps; a control unit that controls and drives the pair of clamps and the slider; and a clip-setting-detecting unit that detects whether the separated clip is held by the pair of clamps or not. The control unit has a clip-setting-detecting step in which the slider is caused to perform an operation of feeding the clip-arranged belt a predetermined number of times in a state in which the pair of clamps are opened and are ready to receive the clamp-arranged belt and, if the clamp-arranged belt is not detected by the clip-setting-detecting unit during the predetermined number of times, the pair of clamps and the slider are stopped from being driven.