Patent ID: 9283803
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: B43M,G03G

Claim Text:
1. A sealed letter forming apparatus comprising: a sheet feed unit containing an envelope sheet to be an envelope and a content sheet to be a content; a printer printing on the envelope and content sheets supplied from the sheet feed unit, respectively; an enclosing and sealing unit folding the envelope and content sheets printed by the printer, and enclosing and sealing the content sheet in the envelope sheet; and a controller controlling the enclosing and sealing unit, wherein a combination of the envelope sheet and the content sheet is defined as an article, and sealed letter forming processing is performed with respect to each article, when an error related to the envelope sheet or the content sheet in a first n-th article (n is a positive integer) occurs, the controller controls the enclosing and sealing unit to stop the sealed letter forming processing and to discharge the first n-th article including a first n-th envelope sheet and a first n-th content sheet, and thereafter, when the error is canceled, the controller controls the enclosing and sealing unit to perform the sealed letter forming processing without sealing a second n-th article following the first n-th article as a sealed letter to be checked manually.