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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7407355 | Method and device for automatically binding book blocks by machine in a working cycle This invention relates to a method and a device for automatically binding book blocks by machine. In a working cycle, the book blocks are conveyed on a conveyor device in an upright manner through the individual processing stations. In a fanning gluing binding stati... | 08/05/2008 |
| 6575445 | Jacket-laying-on device for bookbinding machines The bookbinding machine with a transport system for continuously conveying stacks of sheets at cyclical intervals having a jacket-laying-on device with a chain conveyer, and transporters which engage behind the jackets and feed them to the stacks of sheet... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6386812 | Cover-feeder A cover-feeder for isolating the uppermost cover, in each case, of a flat stack which is continuously advanced, with lateral alignment and as far as a front-edge stop, in an imbricated formation on a transport belt belonging to a feed table, the cover-fee... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6199851 | Method, device and accessories for the manufacture of booklets The present invention relates to a method, a device for assembling and producing of booklets. Each booklet having a cover that comprises two cover sheets and a spine disposed inbetween. A glue string is applied to the inner surface of the spine, and a she... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6174120 | Apparatus for affixing book pages to a book cover and process for making same An apparatus and method for affixing book pages to a book cover is disclosed having a sheet of paper with at least one waxy side and two stickers, each having a first side, the first side being sticky and removably affixed to the waxy side of the sheet of... | 01/16/2001 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5570985 | Method and a device for the manufacture of booklets A method and apparatus are provided for manufacturing booklets. Each booklet is made of a cover having two cover sheets and a spine, a bead of glue attached to the inside of the spine, and a sheaf of papers inserted between the cover sheets and attached t... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5498112 | Method of and apparatus for applying protective jackets to books The application of protective jackets comprised of paper to a book is facilitated by minimizing bending stresses in the jacket paper in the fold areas where the jacket is wrapped around the opposed longitudinal edges of the book cover in the course of def... | 03/12/1996 |
| 4373844 | Semiautomatic machine for assembling paper dust jackets on new hard cover books This is a machine which assists the operator in assembling paper dust jackets around the hard covers of a new book. The machine includes the plurality of vacuum suction cups mounted on a pair of oscillating transferring arms which transport the paper jack... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4100639 | Methods of an apparatus for wrapping jackets around books Paper jackets are automatically applied to hard cover books in a manner which provides a good fit between the jacket and book and insures against the jacket folds slipping free of the book covers during or immediately subsequent to jacket application. The... | 07/18/1978 |
