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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2011
Masahiko Yamada, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhiro Wakamatsu, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuichiro Maeyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Masato Ogawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshihiro Yoshinuma, Kanagawa, JP;
Masahiko Yamada, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhiro Wakamatsu, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuichiro Maeyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Masato Ogawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshihiro Yoshinuma, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sheet cutting device includes a cutter including opposed blades to cut a sheet fed along a sheet feed path to the device, a cutter holder holding the cutter and reciprocally movable in a width direction of the sheet perpendicular to a sheet feed direction in which the sheet is fed, and a guide member including a first path to guide the holder in the width direction of the sheet to cut the sheet with the cutter and a second path to guide the holder in the width direction after the sheet is cut. The second path is disposed away from the first path in a thickness direction of the sheet perpendicular to both the sheet feed direction and the width direction of the sheet. When the holder moves along the second path, the holder is retracted away from the sheet feed path in the thickness direction of the sheet.