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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2002
Masahiro Tamura, Tokyo, JP;
Akihito Andoh, Tokyo, JP;
Shuuya Nagasako, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuya Tsutsui, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiro Tamura, Tokyo, JP;
Akihito Andoh, Tokyo, JP;
Shuuya Nagasako, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuya Tsutsui, Tokyo, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sheet-shaped medium treatment apparatus is disclosed. The sheet-shaped medium treatment apparatus has returning means. The sheet-shaped medium treatment apparatus is movable between a home position (I) and a press/return position (II). In addition, before leading end of discharged sheet-shaped medium Sgets contact with top surface of sheet-shaped medium Salready piled on said piling means, the returning meansis situated at said press/return position (II) and acts upon said already piled sheet-shaped medium Sto retain it in proper position, and after said discharged sheet-shaped medium Sfalls on said piling meanssaid fallen sheet-shaped medium is aligned by being collided against said vertical wallby said returning action of said returning meansthereafter, sheet-shaped medium is arranged by said arranging action of said arranging means in the direction of piercing the paper plane. Also, sheet-shaped medium treatment apparatus includes after-treatment apparatus, and the after-treatment apparatus has stapling means for aligning and stapling a plurality of sheet-shaped media, if sheet-shaped medium is sheet-shaped medium bundle stapled by the stapling means, returning means is controlled so that it is remote from top of the sheet-shaped medium bundle.