US 12,466,689 B2
Binding apparatus
Nobuhide Inaba, Kanagawa (JP); Kumiko Tanaka, Kanagawa (JP); Takashi Ogino, Kanagawa (JP); Masashi Matsumoto, Kanagawa (JP); and Takumi Uegane, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/949,618.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-052871 (JP), filed on Mar. 29, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0312300 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. B65H 37/04 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 37/04 (2013.01) [B65H 2515/805 (2013.01); B65H 2801/27 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
19. A binding apparatus comprising:
a binding means for binding sheets of paper by advancing binding teeth toward the sheets of paper;
a water adjusting means for adjusting an amount of water contained in the sheets of paper; and
processing means for, based on a setting on one of the binding means or the water adjusting means, making a setting on the other one of the binding means or the water adjusting means, and for setting an advancing amount of the binding teeth to be advanced toward the sheets of paper by the binding means based on a setting on the amount of water to be supplied to the sheets of paper by the water adjuster.