| 摘要 |
<p>A binding device, comprising a switching flapper (15) which switches a sheet feed route to either an upper sheet delivery port or a lower sheet delivery port, sheet feed rollers (20) installed at the upper sheet delivery port, a shutter (13) installed at the lower sheet feed port, a stapler (14), and sheet delivery rollers (12), wherein the sheet feed rollers (12) can feed sheets in the direction reverse to the normal sheet feed direction and, when the sheets are fed in a reverse direction, the shutter (13) stops the sheets at a specified position for positioning, the stapler (14) binds the positioned sheets, and the sheet delivery rollers (12) butt the sheets against the shutter (13), align them with each other and, after the sheets have been bound, delivers the sheets in the normal sheet feed direction, whereby the structure of the binding device can be simplified and the size of it can be reduced.</p> |
