Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7311648 | Method for stamping a bending edge in a package material Stamping of a layer (2) of package material, such as cardboard or plastics, for forming one or more bending edges may take place according to the invention by a method wherein a stamping tool (8), which is provided with preferably three ribs (9 | 12/25/2007 |
| 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 |
| 6966553 | Device for preparing adhesive bindings of blocks and brochures, especially for small print runs The present invention pertains to a device of compact design for preparing adhesive bindings of blocks and brochures as well as to a process that can be carried out by means of a device according to the present invention, wherein it has a linear conveying system wit... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6905450 | Clam shell container with cover and inner tray The clam shell container is formed by a cover formed of cardboard, chipboard or other similar material. A thermoform plastic tray is adhered to the inner surface of the cover to form the completed clam shell container. When closed, the edges of the tray move closer ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6739818 | Post print finishing device with spiral binder The present invention is directed to a post print finishing device that incorporates a spiral binder module into the post print handling and finishing functions. In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, the binder module binds sheets together by inserting a met... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6733006 | Sheet post-processing device and image forming apparatus A sheet post-processing device includes a placement unit for placing sheets discharged from an image forming apparatus, an offset unit for successively offsetting an edge of each sheet on the placement unit, and a saddle stitching unit for saddle stitching a stack o... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6715749 | Booklet maker and method of manufacturing a booklet maker A sheet wise booklet maker includes adjustable elements to allow adjustment of the parallelism of the booklet maker elements to produce quality booklets. The booklet maker includes a sheet trimmer, a folding apparatus, and a paper drive. Orientations of at least two... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6712349 | Sheet folder with turnover and pressing device A sheet processing apparatus comprising a center-stapling device, a center-folding device, and a stacking tray for stacking a discharged sheet or sheet bundle, staples at the center of a sheet bundle conveyer from a sheet output apparatus with the center-stapling de... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6589000 | Apparatus and method for folding and binding sheet media The invention combines the binding techniques described in application Ser. No. 09/320,060 titled Binding Sheet Media Using Imaging Material with a buckle chute type folding device to form self mailers and other folded and bound or sealed document. The de... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6450492 | Method and apparatus for set binding, stapling and stacking Apparatus is provided for receiving and assembling sheets in a binding station at which thermal binding strips are automatically supplied to the side edges of the assembled sets, the sheet receiving trays at the binding station are laterally moved apart t... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6379094 | Apparatus for tucking hard book covers An apparatus (20) for facilitating folding of a cover material (6) about a spine (4) and a pair of panels (2) to form a hard book cover (8). The apparatus (20) comprises an infeed table assembly (22) for supporting the cover material (6), the spine (4) an... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6364590 | Book cover preparation system An apparatus for forming scorelines in a book cover includes a pair of scoring counter-bars and a pair of scoring tools. Each of the scoring counter-bars include a longitudinal indentation provided therein and each of the scoring tools include a scoring p... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6354582 | Bookbinding machine having interchangeable modules A bookbinding machine having an inner-book transporting system, consisting of a conveyer, preferably a roller chain with individual links that engage movably in one another, running around deflecting wheels, and of a multiplicity of clamps, at points of a... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6158940 | Device for the back rounding of book blocks A device for the back rounding of book blocks in a book binding machine cooperating with a conveyor device. The device includes a driving arrangement and rounding elements driven in rotation by the driving arrangement. The rounding elements taking up the ... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6099225 | Booklet maker A low cost, high speed, high resolution laser printer method and apparatus for re-writable media is presented. A method for finishing of printed sheets into booklets is described. Novel mechanical operations permit the manufacture of a very low-cost, off-... | 08/08/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5868539 | Process and device for the manufacture of a book In the manufacture of a book, the book consisting of a cover and an inner book, the book cover is permanently shaped by the formation of folds in the articulation region thereof prior to being joined to the inner book. In the course of forming the folds i... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5499897 | Arrangement for manufacturing book blocks formed of adhesively bound printed sheets An arrangement for manufacturing book blocks formed of printed sheets which are bound by an adhesive includes a spiral guide wall for transferring the gathered printed sheets which are placed one on top of the other in stacks from an essentially horizonta... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5318398 | Book delivery device for book binding machine A delivery device for a book binding machine is provided with a first conveyor belt (19) arranged for movement in a vertical direction between a book delivery station and a book transfer station and a second conveyor belt (40) located in a fixed position ... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5240362 | Image forming apparatus with book bind device A book bind device has a supplier for supplying a front sheet used in a book bind operation of sheet members, a conveyor for guiding a plurality of sheet members on which an image is formed into the front sheet, and book binder for performing the book bin... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5232324 | Apparatus and method for applying covers to signatures An apparatus for applying covers to books of signatures transported along a binding line includes cover feeders for feeding at least two covers upon a conveyor line and a fastening arrangement for joining the covers in substantially superimposed registrat... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5102277 | Method and machine for the manufacture of booklets A method for manufacturing booklets, each booklet comprising a cover made up of two cover sheets, a spine therebetween, and a binding agent attached to the inside of the spine, as well as a sheaf of paper inserted between the two cover sheets, one side ed... | 04/07/1992 |
| 4986713 | Apparatus for applying hard and soft covers to bound or unbound documents A bindery system captures pages of a bound or unbound book in a hard or soft cover case by crimping a metal U-shaped channel which is bonded to the inside spine surface of the hard or soft covers.... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4626156 | Finishing apparatus with cover inserter A finishing apparatus is adapted to receive sheets that are to be formed into booklets from a copier/duplicator or other reproduction apparatus. The sheets are fed along a sheet transport in the finishing apparatus to an assembly station where they are jo... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4160687 | Magazine page labeling apparatus An apparatus for applying labels across the pages of a magazine as it is being conveyed with the binding of the magazine first, includes a label dispenser for applying a label to the trailing edge of the magazine with only a portion of the label being sec... | 07/10/1979 |
