Patent ID: 11926500
Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 1:
2. The sheet folding device according to claim 1, wherein
the first folding guide includes a guide part that has a shape of a letter V as seen sideways and is provided at a pivot end thereof, and the guide part includes a vertex and a pair of inclined surfaces extending from the vertex,
when the first folding guide is disposed at the folding position after a front end of the sheet passes above the first folding nip, the vertex comes into contact with the to-be-folded part of the sheet conveyed on the sheet conveyance path and guides the to-be-folded part to the first folding nip, and
the pair of inclined surfaces includes:
a first guide surface that, when the first folding guide is disposed at the retracted position, is disposed to be opposed to the first folding nip and guides the sheet downstream on the sheet conveyance path; and
a second guide surface that, when the first folding guide is disposed at the folding position before the front end of the sheet reaches above the first folding nip, is opposed to an outer circumferential surface of the second roller and guides the front end of the sheet to the first folding conveyance path.