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A resilient headband in a shape for being mounted on the head of the user. The headband is equipped with a longitudinal slotted member for holding a placard.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8132994 | Bookbinding system A punching processing unit punches holes in a paper bundle delivered from a preprocessing device. A bookbinding unit includes a cartridge for stocking a plurality of rings, and performs a ring binding by binding the paper bundle with the rings. A detecting unit dete... | 03/13/2012 |
| 7806640 | Bookbinding apparatus, bookbinding system, and adhesive coating method A bookbinding apparatus for forming a booklet by coating an adhesive on a spine of a stack of sheets, including: a coating apparatus, which has an adhesive reservoir to store a liquid of the adhesive, and a coating roller to coat on the spine the adhesive scooped up... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7354233 | Bookbinding machine and prebinding apparatus In a bookbinding machine, an image forming apparatus, a prebinding apparatus and a bookbinding apparatus are coupled on line in this order. In the prebinding apparatus, a sheet aligning section, a slitting section which cuts off margins at both side portions of a sh... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7246982 | Bookbinding coil insertion machine A machine for inserting plastic pre-formed helical coils into aligned holes at an edge of respective collated books for binding the books is adjustable to accommodate different thickness books and respective different diameter and pitch of coil. The machine has a pl... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7236934 | Tailored method and system for custom manufactured books A book on demand system for manufacturing a set books. The system includes an order placement system and a book manufacturing system. The order placement system includes a computer and a database for storing books in an electronic form. A customer can operate the co... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7210887 | Bookbinding machine A bookbinding machine for processing inner books includes a transport system with a multiplicity of inner-book clamps continually movable in a closed continuous track. Each of the inner book clamps is articulated to a circulating roller chain and has a rear-edge sto... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7182007 | Method for dynamically aligning substrates bearing printed reference marks and codes for automated cutting or scoring, and substrates so cut or scored A substrate to be cut and/or scored is pre-printed with graphics, at least first and second registration marks, and optional encoded-to-print instructions, bar-encoded data, as well as ordinary graphics. The registration marks are sensed as the substrate is automati... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7134822 | Guide apparatus for use in making a hardcover book A guide apparatus for applying a cover to a bound stack of sheets, including a base unit which defines a book receiving surface and a first alignment member having a lower cover stop disposed along a reference line, and a first upper cover stop also disposed along t... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7093991 | Combined printer and binder A combined printing and binding device which includes a media tray, a printhead, an adhesive applicator, a binder and a housing. The media tray is designed to receive and retain a plurality of media sheets. The printhead is a page-width printhead designed to print i... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7073551 | Stack pressing apparatus with integral glue dispenser In order to avoid the necessity of cropping the pages of a bound volume, uniformly sized printed pages having pre-glued edge surfaces are aligned within a stack and a press then presses the edge of the stack so as to compress the glue and adhere the pages together. | 07/11/2006 |
| 7008503 | Method of binding pages of a volume In order to avoid the necessity of cropping the pages of a bound volume, uniformly sized printed pages having pre-glued edge surfaces are aligned within a stack and a press then presses the edge of the stack so as to compress the glue and adhere the pages together. | 03/07/2006 |
| 6978990 | Binding assembly for binding sheets incorporating an alignment mechanism A binding assembly for generating bound documents includes a support structure that defines a floor onto which sheets to be bound are conveyed. A wall extends from the floor to define a stop for the sheets that are fed onto the floor. Each sheet has a strip of adhes... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6732777 | Dispensing adhesive in a bookbinding system Systems and methods of dispensing adhesive in a bookbinding system are described. Sheets may be bound into bound text bodies having respective spines exposed for adhesive application and characterized by multiple length dimensions and multiple thickness dimensions. ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6572318 | Managing bookbinding consumables Systems and methods of managing consumables used in a bookbinding system are described. In one aspect, a bookbinding consumables quantity interrogator is configured to obtain information relating to usage of one or more consumables in a bookbinding system... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6514028 | Device and method for side wire binding A side wire stitching binder includes at least one side wire stitcher for stitching a book through a side of the book, a cover station for applying a cover over a spine of the book, and a clamping device including a clamp for transferring the book from th... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6447230 | Book binding system On a base (12) are fixed a pair of supporting members (6, 8). A guide rail (3) is supported by the pair of supporting members. A measurement block (2) is guided by the guide rail in a sliding manner. On the base is fixed a reference block (10) abutted by ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6405152 | Precision calipering system Apparatus and method for counting the number of inserts pulled each cycle from each hopper of an inserting machine. The caliper is a precision mechanism for accurately counting single, double, triple, quadruple and even quintuple fed inserts as well as mi... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6352252 | Conveyor device for bookbinding machines A conveyer device for bookbinding machines having a number of processing stations and having plate or cleated chains or the like which take over book blocks and convey them intermittently to the processing stations. The plate or cleated chains are driven ... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6325585 | Perforation device for punching sheet at predetermined positions and image forming apparatus incorporating the perforation device A sheet perforation device for use in an image forming apparatus eliminates inconveniences such as imperfect punching due to too small a sheet size and completion of image formation without notifying the user that the punching could not be performed despi... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6312204 | Semi-automatic plastic spiral binding machine A binding machine and method for spirally binding a sheaf of papers into a book uses an adjustable speed drive to rotate a flexible plastic spiral element into respective holes in the book. The book has a plurality of holes in a row adjacent one edge of t... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6171044 | Binding module for modular systems A binding system in an output system having a plurality of discrete functional modules is disclosed. The output system includes an accumulator module in which sheet material is accumulated in respective jobs to be bound. The binding system includes a cove... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6099224 | Mechanism for connecting book binding and paper supplying machines A paper supplying apparatus has a rotatable member around a horizontal axis, a pair of clamp plates supported by this rotatable member mutually parallel and in face-to-face relationship for clamping a book block in between, and guide plates each attached ... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6030164 | Device for melting a lashing tape of binding machine A device for heating and melting both ends of a lashing tape of a binding machine at the conclusion of a binding process is formed of a housing and an electrical heater which is disposed in the housing and provided with a plurality of current conducting a... | 02/29/2000 |
| 6024525 | Tape heating apparatus and bookbinding apparatus The present invention relates to a tape heating apparatus in which both side portions of a bind tape can positively be adhered to front and rear surfaces of a sheet bundle without creating any swollen portions. When a thickness of the sheet bundle is smal... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5941671 | Method and apparatus for monitoring the application of glue onto a book block A method and apparatus for monitoring the application of glue onto the back of a book block processed in a book binding machine and bound by gluing, wherein the thickness of glue application is measured. At least the glue layer applied to the book block b... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5899649 | Book-binding apparatus and image forming apparatus A book-binding apparatus conveying a bind tape in front of a tape heater and an aligned sheet bundle is urged against the bind tape pre-heated by the tape heater to glue a plurality of sheets by melted adhesive on the bind tape. An aligning time for the s... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5876170 | Method for testing the completeness of a book block intended for adhesive binding A method and an arrangement are provided for checking completeness of a book block intended for an adhesive binding, wherein an adhesive binding machine includes a conveyor defining a conveying path along which the book block is conveyed. A plurality of p... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5774688 | Format adjustment apparatus and method for bookbinding The set-up procedure for a bookbinding machine is accomplished through the use of a portable computer with an integral data transceiver. Adjustable machine element position information is entered into the portable computer and transmitted to the machine c... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5702220 | Method and apparatus for elimination of adhesive stringers during perfect binding A perfect binding apparatus having a plurality of pockets, each of which releasably engage a book to be bound. The pockets are sequentially passed over a glue pot by means of a conveyor chain coupled to each pocket. A hot melt adhesive is applied to the b... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5660515 | Trimmer apparatus for a bindery process and method of make-ready This invention relates to a trimmer apparatus for cutting book forms collated on a bindery apparatus and more particularly, to an improved make-ready or to set up of the trimmer apparatus to obtain production run speeds of operation.... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5605575 | Interchangeable adhesive-applying apparatus A method and an operator interchangeable apparatus with fast warm up time for coating flowable and pasty materials onto a workpiece, especially for the application of glue and other adhesive substances to the back of signatures in bookbinding and the like... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5601389 | Automatic book binding machine for cut-sheets An automatic book binding machine for cut-sheets includes a main body, a belt conveyor mounted on the main body and a feeder mounted on the main body and adapted to feed cut-sheets. A front cover of the cut-sheets has an identification mark for identifyin... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5439340 | Printed document assembly apparatus including remotely controlled printing device An apparatus for intergrating plural printed documents into a stacked relationship, such as a magazine, catalog and the like. The apparatus includes a printer for applying customized messages to the magazine, such as the inside cover. This printer is cont... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5419668 | Adjustable binder stop A binding machine for opening a multi-ring plastic binding element to install a stack of pages thereon, providing an improved adjustment mechanism to set the opening dimension of the rings corresponding to the stack of pages to be bound as well as the par... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5383754 | Image forming apparatus having an image orientation identifying device and a binding device An image forming apparatus having a device capable of identifying an image orientation to allow adequate processing to be executed and a device capable of binding sheets by determining a binding position. When an image orientation cannot be identified on ... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5354161 | Check book issuing machine A check book issuing machine including a check blank storing section for storing check blanks, a blank storing section for storing front covers, divider papers and back covers, take-out means for taking out blanks from the storing sections in an order suc... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5326209 | Method and an apparatus for forming a plurality of individual books in a predetermined sequence An apparatus for forming a plurality of individual books in a predetermined sequence includes a main conveyor having a plurality of spaced collating stations for receiving signatures. A plurality of feeders selectively feed signatures to the spaced collat... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5267821 | Bindery line book accumulator In order to improve binding line output by reducing equipment downtime effects, a book accumulator for a binding line is provided. The binding line book accumulator includes a book accumulating table for accumulating books from and returning books to a bi... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5246325 | Sheet material binding apparatus A binding apparatus for binding sheet materials with a covering material having a heat-adhesive agent at its bottom portion by bonding the bottom portion of the covering member and edges of the sheet materials includes a holder for holding the covering ma... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5152653 | Sheet binder A sheet binding apparatus includes a tray for supporting a set of sheet materials; a punch for punching the sheet materials on the supporting tray; a conveyor for conveying the sheet materials punched by the punch; a binder for binding the sheet materials... | 10/06/1992 |
