Patent ID: 6381442
Filing Date: 2002-04-30
Classification: B65H,G03G

Abstract:
An image-forming apparatus comprising:a document reading section for reading image information from a document; an image-forming section for forming an image on a sheet of paper based upon the image information of the document read by the document reading section; a space section formed below the document reading section, which accommodates the image-forming section and serves as a discharge section to which the sheet of paper bearing the image formed in the image-forming section is discharged, the space section being surrounded by peripheral walls of an apparatus main body including the image-forming section; and a paper post-treatment section that subjects the sheet of paper bearing the image to post-treatments including an adjustment process and a stapling process, in a virtually horizontal state, and that is placed between the document reading section and the space section, wherein the paper post-treatment section comprises: a paper tray on which the sheet of paper bearing an image formed in the image-forming section is stacked; and a staple unit for adjusting and stapling sheets of paper stacked on the paper tray, wherein the staple unit includes a stopper which is allowed to contact the edge of the sheet of paper in a transporting direction so as to adjust the sheet of paper upon adjusting the sheet of paper placed on the paper tray, and a fixed wall which is allowed to contact the sheet of paper in the direction orthogonal to the transporting direction of the sheet of paper so as to adjust the sheet of paper, the stopper and the fixed wall being attached to a same member.