SHEET CUTTING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME

• Main Authors: MAEYAMA YUICHIRO, OGAWA MASAHITO, WAKAMATSU KAZUHIRO, YOSHINUMA TOSHIHIRO, YAMADA MASAHIKO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 27.09.2012
• Subjects: CONVEYING; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING,CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; HAND CUTTING TOOLS; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS,CABLES; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PRINTING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; SEVERING; STAMPS; STORING; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sheet cutting device and an image forming apparatus that can move a cutter housing steadily when cutting a sheet, and execute a stable operation of cutting the sheet.SOLUTION: The sheet cutting device 5 by which roll paper is cut into a predetermined length includes: a moving member 52 capable of moving along a sheet width direction; a cutter housing 51 for receiving the cutter and turnably connected to the moving member 52 in a sheet thickness direction; a guide member for guiding a movement of the moving member 52; and a wire 42 for drawing the moving member 52 toward a downstream side along a cutting direction wherein the sheet cutting device is configured such that the moving member 52 is connected with the cutter housing 51 on the downstream side of the cutting direction relative to a received position C of the cutter.