Patent ID: 6767012
Filing Date: 2004-07-27
Classification: B42C,B65H

Abstract:
In a sheet finishing apparatus having a stacking tray for stacking sheets formed with indicia, a processing tray established in the process to said stacking tray for receiving said sheets, a movable aligning plate established on said processing tray to traverse in movement the discharge direction of said sheets for sheet alignment, a binding means for binding said aligned sheets, the finishing apparatus discharging sheets to a stacking tray wherein;the aligning of the last sheet of a plurality of sheets employs a plurality of aligning operations, the first aligning operation having a distance from the aligning position of said movable aligning plate to the first aligning operation starting position of L1; the last aligning operation a distance from the aligning position of the movable aligning plate to the final aligning operation starting position of L2, the relationship between the two distances is L1>L2.