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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7854581 | Bookbinding apparatus, bookbinding system, and bookbinding method A bookbinding apparatus provided with an accumulating portion, which accumulates sheets into a sheet bundle, a bundle position correcting device, which corrects an adhesive application position of the sheet bundle, an adhesive applying portion, which applies an adhe... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7832973 | Operating device for creating movement in two different devices with the aid of a single operating lever An operating device in an application, in which movement in two different devices can be created using a single operating lever (9), the device being based on the rotation of sprockets. A sprocket (11) attached to the shaft (10) of the operating... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7182567 | Method and device for additional pressing during a page nipping event A method and device for additional pressing during a page nipping event in the adhesive binding of books or corresponding objects. One part of the cover (1) and the spine of the book are folded around the block (2) formed by the book's pages and glued ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 6676354 | Process for casing a book block or paper-cover block into a cover, and device for performing the process In a process for casing a book block or paper-cover block into a cover during the manufacture of adhesively bound books, paper covers or magazines in an adhesive binding machine in which the block is transported, with a hanging-out portion, in a block cla... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6641345 | Systems and methods of increasing binding strength of a bound text body Systems and methods are described for increasing the binding strength of a bound text body by increasing the spinal surface area exposed for adhesive penetration greater than an area corresponding to the product of the sheet height dimension, the sheet th... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6450749 | Arrangement for applying an adhesive onto outer surfaces of an inner book to be inset into a book cover by means of an inset machine An arrangement for applying an adhesive to outer surfaces of an inner book to be inset into a book cover by an insetting machine, moving inner books on saddle plates of a circulating conveyor vertically upwardly. The arrangement has an adhesive applying d... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6053684 | Folded product A method and a device for the production of folded products utilizes a row of folding jaws and a row of counter folding jaws. A signature to be cross-folded is inserted between the jaws by a folding blade. The folding jaws and counter folding jaws form a ... | 04/25/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5961268 | Method and device for adhesive binding of printed products According to the inventive method for joining product parts by means of a glued spine, the juxtaposed edges of the stacked product parts which form the spine area (2) of the product in process are pre-treated with a tearing tool (4) e.g. with a rotating b... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5580097 | Cover and method and device for manufacturing the same A cover comprising a spine (3), a strip of binding agent (4) connected to the spine, and two cover sides 1, 2) which are connected with the spine by means of a first pair of creasing lines (5, 6) extending parallel to the strip, the cover sides also being... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5141377 | Book shaping and pressing machine A book shaping and pressing machine comprises a plurality of uniformly spaced pressing appliances which are propelled along an endless path, each of these pressing appliances possessing a pair of pressing plates which face each other across a gap that can... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5062754 | Booklet, method and apparatus for producing the same The invention disclosed is directed to a method, an apparatus for manufacturing and apparatus for using a booklet, folder or wrapper comprising two substantially parallel covers (1,2) united with a spine (3) at crease lines (5,6). A strip (4) of adhesive ... | 11/05/1991 |
| 4505629 | Book binding machine A book making machine comprising casing-in instrumentalities and, optionally, building-in instrumentalities arranged so that the operations required to wrap a book with a cover are effected rectilinearly in succession comprising a cover feeder for deliver... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4373985 | Adhesive binder An adhesive binding machine which is for gluing the covers to the collated pages of the books and which includes a cutter for trimming the edges of the pages, a glue pot for applying glue to the cut edges, a nipper for pressing a cover to the glued edges ... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4263687 | Book nipping apparatus Book nipping apparatus having first and second pairs of jaws adapted to apply nipping pressure on a stack of signatures. The first pair of jaws is structured to press the signature stack together adjacent the signatures' back or spine edge in a straight s... | 04/28/1981 |
| 4237569 | Bookbinding machine Bookbinding machine with a horizontal turntable 2 which carries pairs of clamping jaws (3, 4) and transports the pairs of clamping jaws past work stations (A-E), wherein a disc cam (16) is provided coaxially with the turntable to open and close the pairs ... | 12/09/1980 |
