Patent ID: 8967028
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: B26D,B65H,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A sheet cutting device comprising: a cutter holder accommodating a cutter, the cutter having opposed blades opposing each other to cut a sheet of recording media fed along a sheet feed path of a feed guide plate unit; a moving unit holding the cutter holder and movable in a sheet width direction perpendicular to a sheet feed direction in which the sheet is fed along the sheet feed path; and a guide member disposed along the sheet width direction to guide the moving unit in the sheet width direction, wherein the cutter holder partially overlaps with the feed guide plate unit in a thickness direction of the sheet perpendicular to both the sheet width direction and the sheet feed direction, and wherein the moving unit moves the cutter holder accommodating the cutter including the opposed blades from a home position, along a forward path in the sheet width direction to cut the sheet of recording media, and after the sheet is cut with the cutter, retracts the cutter including both of the opposed blades downward below the sheet feed path of the sheet of recording media in the thickness direction to a retracted position, to move the cutter holder in a backward path back to the home position.