In accordance with an embodiment, a post-processing apparatus comprises a knocking section, a receiving section, a driving section and a pressing section. The knocking section knocks a staple in a sheet. The receiving section faces the knocking section. The receiving section receives the sheet in which the staple is knocked from the knocking section. The driving section can change an interval between the knocking section and the receiving section in an opposite direction in which the knocking section and the receiving section face each other. The pressing section extends continuously in a sheet width direction. The pressing section presses the sheet before the staple is knocked in the sheet.

The present application discloses a post-processing apparatus including a second tray which receives a sheet stack ejected from a first tray, a pushing mechanism including a pushing portion which pushes the sheet stack against the second tray, a motion detector which detects a motion of the pushing mechanism, and a controller including an ejection controller which controls an ejector. When the ejector ejects the sheet stack, the pushing mechanism moves the pushing portion in a first direction away from the second tray. When the ejector finishes ejection of the sheet stack, the pushing mechanism moves the pushing portion in a second direction which is opposite to the first direction. Unless the motion detector detects the motion of the pushing mechanism moving the pushing portion in the first direction when the ejector ejects the sheet stack, the ejection controller executes interruption control of stopping the ejection of the sheet stack.

A post-processing apparatus comprises a first processing tray on which fed paper is placed; a paper binding section configured to bind a plurality of sheets of paper stacked on the first processing tray into one bundle; a second processing tray which a plurality of paper bundles bound on the first processing tray are sequentially conveyed to and placed on; a paper bundle gluing section configured to coat glue at a given position of the top surface of a first paper bundle placed on the second processing tray before a second paper bundle is placed on the first paper bundle; a pressing section configured to press and bind the first paper bundle with the second paper bundle between which glue is coated; and a control section configured to control the timing for conveying the second paper bundle onto the first paper bundle after the glue is coated.

A method of producing a laminated body is provided in which, while a carrier A is wound off from a bobbin, an adhesive is applied to both facing ends thereof and a metal foil B is laid on and bonded to a side to which the adhesive was applied. The obtained laminated body is subsequently cut, a plurality of the cut laminated bodies are aligned in a stack, a roller is applied from the top of the stack when the elevation of the center of the stack becomes high to vent air existing between and within the laminated bodies. After the air vent process, the adhesive hardens to mutually bond the carrier to the metal foil of each laminated body. Accordingly, a carrier-attached copper foil that provides improvements in handling ability in the production process of a printed board and cost reduction based on improved production yield.

A recording material processing apparatus includes: first teeth that are used for binding processing of a recording material bundle; second teeth configured to move toward the first teeth and to press the recording material bundle positioned between the first teeth and the second teeth; a first metal block configured to support the first teeth; and a second metal block configured to support the second teeth.

A medium stacking apparatus comprises a stacking roller for stacking a medium in a stacking space, a supporting part for supporting a lower portion of the medium transferred by the stacking roller, a plurality of stacking guides for supporting the medium disposed on the supporting part in a standing state, a plurality of moving devices for moving the plurality of stacking guides, and a control part controlling the plurality of moving devices. The control part controls the plurality of moving devices to move a second stacking guide toward a first stacking guide to allow the stacked medium to stands up in a state where the medium is supported by the first stacking guide of the plurality of stacking guides.

Disclosed herein is a banknote handling apparatus 100 including a bundling stacker 4 configured to stack banknotes B therein. The bundling stacker 4 includes: a stage 41 configured to support the banknotes B in their thickness direction; and a guide 42 facing one side of the banknotes B and configured to regulate movement of the banknotes B in a predetermined regulation direction which is parallel to a surface of the banknotes B. The guide 42 moves such that while the banknotes B are removed from the bundling stacker 4, a gap G is formed in the regulation direction between the guide 42 and the one side of the banknotes B.

Provided is a sheet folding device which can reduce the pellet exchange frequency and an operation stop time accompanying a pallet exchange. The sheet folding device includes: (a) first movement unit disposed to be able to be raised/lowered above a placement region; (b) a second movement unit which is supported by the first movement unit and reciprocates along the placement region in a first direction; and (c) a sheet discharge device which is supported by the second movement unit and has a sheet discharge port facing the placement region, the sheet discharge port reciprocating along the placement region in a second direction crossing the first direction. Sheets continuous in the longitudinal direction are discharged from the sheet discharge port of the sheet discharge device so that the width direction of the sheets crosses the second direction.

A sheet processing device is for binding sheets together. The sheet processing device includes binding units differing from each other in maximum sheet count, the maximum sheet count being a maximum number of sheets that can be bound at a time; a sheet tray configured to hold sheets until all to-be-bound sheets are placed therein, the number of the to-be-bound sheets being a largest one of the maximum sheet counts of the binding units or smaller; and a stacked-sheet-count limiting unit situated in a thickness direction of the sheets held in the sheet tray. The stacked-sheet-count limiting unit is configured to limit the number of sheets held in the sheet tray by varying a distance from a sheet support surface of the sheet tray on which the sheets are placed, depending on one of the binding units by which the sheets held in the sheet tray are to be bound.

A banknote-passing type banknote conveying device, used at a banknote inlet-outlet of an automatic teller machine, includes a mounting lateral plate, a banknote stacking mechanism, a banknote clamping and conveying mechanism, a pressing mechanism, a jacking mechanism, and a central control unit for controlling the operation of the above mechanisms. The banknote-passing type banknote conveying device uses a lifting motor and a connection rod to drive a lifting plate to move the banknotes up and down, and uses a pressing plate to move the banknotes back and forth. The functions of stacking and passing banknotes are achieved in an effective space. Moreover, a pull type electromagnet and a spring are used to control the opening and closing of the banknote clamping and conveying mechanism, thus a traditional motor control method and the like can be omitted, such that the cost is low, and the reliability is high.