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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7281706 | Gatherer stitcher A gatherer stitcher having a gatherer chain configuration includes roof segments forming a ridge region and drivers having respective stop surfaces and being mounted so as to be adjustable between an operating position and a position pivotable away therefrom. An aux... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7044293 | Compact disc holder and booklet A combination compact disc holder and informational booklet comprising a cover and a plurality of pages, the cover and pages being made of substantially rectangular paper sheets, the cover being of heavier stock and including at least one pocket having such size and... | 05/16/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6402450 | Book binding A method of binding books comprising the steps of holding in place a text hull (1) comprising the pages of two books (2, 3) the gutters (5, 19) of the two books being located on opposite edges of the text hull to one another, binding the opposite edges of... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6357952 | Two-up loose-leaf binder covers A two-up process for manufacturing one-piece binder covers including the steps of cutting a panel having opposed pairs of parallel sides; perforating the panel between two of its parallel sides to form a separating line to provide two rectangles connected... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6142530 | Children's book having pictures with integrated photographs A book is provided, especially for children, having a cover and a content including several pages, on which pictures and/or text are found. In order to ensure that children approach a book of this type with great enthusiasm, this book is individualized, i... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6120228 | Wallet size pocketed booklet A wallet size pocketed booklet which has been adapted to hold a card having the dimensions of a conventional credit card, and is particularly designed to be carried in the credit card compartment of a wallet or similar size compartment holder. The use of ... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6095740 | Method of manufacturing books or brochures A method and an apparatus for manufacturing books or brochures with a book block of printed sheets which are thread-stitched at the side of the fold, wherein the method includes successively and in a predetermined sequence supplying the printed sheets spr... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6024524 | Method of manufacturing book blocks from various printed sheets having several quarto sheets which are inserted into one another A method and an apparatus for manufacturing book blocks from various printed sheets composed of a plurality of quarto sheets which are inserted into one another, wherein the printed sheets are successively pulled fold first along a conveying path from a s... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5820325 | Saddle bindery apparatus with make-ready referencing A method of make-ready of a bindery apparatus includes the steps of providing indicia relating to the size of the signature on the apparatus to locate inner and outer ends of pocket guides for pocket machines to obtain a proper bow of the signatures and a... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5417535 | Method of and apparatus for making books, brochures and the like Books or brochures are produced by transporting a series of elongated piles of superimposed paper sheets longitudinally through at least one bonding station where certain marginal portions of the sheets of each pile are adhesively connected to each other,... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5295775 | Method of and apparatus for making books Books or brochures are produced by transporting a series of elongated piles of superimposed paper sheets longitudinally through at least one stitching station where the sheets of each pile are mechanically connected to each other, thereupon sideways throu... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5143404 | Note pad An improved note pad having a stack of paper sheets with an advertising structure bound on the top surface thereof in such a manner that such structure may be folded back away from the top sheet to allow all of the sheet to be used and to expose a message... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5052872 | Manual sheet binding structure and method A method for binding a stack of fan folded sheets including manually disposing the stack of sheets with spine edges of the sheets generally aligned in a plane generally at a right angle to the side surfaces of the sheets in the stack; manually positioning... | 10/01/1991 |
| 4948111 | Method and apparatus for incorporating backing boards in the printed paper stack of a printing press Backing boards are delivered one at a time from a supply hopper to a stack of printed paper sheets at the stacking station outfeed end of a printing press while the outfeed of the next succeeding printed sheet is delayed for a time sufficient to allow the... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4942195 | Toughened rubber based hot melt adhesive compositions for bookbinding applications Thus, the present invention is directed to hot melt adhesive compositions suitable for bookbinding application comprising tackifying resins, at least one wax diluent and a substantially radial styrene-butadiene block copolymer, the copolymer having a styr... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4671719 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing printed tablets A stack of printed sheets is divided into individual tablets by inserting paper boards at intervals of a predetermined number of sheets in the stack. A continuous filament is threaded in zig-zag fashion across each successive board before a binder is coat... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4639177 | Book sewing machine with automatic separation of books A book sewing machine has an inserter for plates for indicating the planes of separation between the books. Each plate is disposed in the separation plane in correspondence with the top of the adjacent face of the contiguous books on that side of the book... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4558980 | Multi-leaved tablet and method of forming same The multi-leaved tablet of this invention consists of leaves with corresponding surface portions adhesively interconnected and with corresponding surface portions free to fold relative to adjacent leaves. The leaves are of predetermined configuration and ... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4484501 | Apparatus for cutting and trimming paper sheets or the like Apparatus for trimming the lateral marginal portions of successive stacks of sheets of multiple unit width and for subdividing the trimmed stacks into stacks of unit width has an advancing unit which moves the stacks stepwise in a direction at right angle... | 11/27/1984 |
| 4480517 | Back-splitting apparatus for use in production of books Back-splitting apparatus for use in the production of books such as account books, notebooks, textbooks and the like for separating a block of stacked sheets of paper, bound together at one side by gluing and constituting a plurality of books, into indivi... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4343615 | Process for forming printing characters Stacks of individual relatively small rectangular sheets bearing printed characters are formed by first printing the characters in a grid on a substantially larger sheet, then stacking those sheets in registration, wrapping it with a transparent adhesive ... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4193498 | Multiple booklet and method of making the same A thin lightweight strip of booklets and method of making the same are disclosed. The booklets are comprised of one elongated sheet folded in thirds, then in half, then in half to define pages of the same size without the use of fasteners. The booklets ar... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4155133 | Bookmaking Method of, and apparatus for, making books using the two-up, coming and going method in which halfblocks, two of which form a double book block, are moved in a single stream, alternate halfblocks being turned through 180° as they move and the halfblocks ... | 05/22/1979 |
