Patent ID: 7938304

Claim:
An electric stapler comprising: a staple sheet storage portion for storing a stack of staple sheets; a magazine storage portion disposed on a rear side of the staple sheet storage portion to store a staple magazine; a first staple feed mechanism operable to pull out a staple sheet from the staple magazine and to feed the staple sheet to the staple sheet storage portion; a second staple feed mechanism operable to pull out the staple sheet from the staple sheet storage portion and to feed the staple sheet to a driver unit; and a lift mechanism operable to lift up the magazine storage portion, wherein the first staple feed mechanism feeds the staple sheet to the staple sheet storage portion in a state in which the lift mechanism keeps a height of the staple sheet to be pulled out from the staple magazine higher than a height of an upper surface of a stack of the staple sheets inside the staple sheet storage portion.