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Apparatus and method for assembling signatures

US5013022A · kind A · utility

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23Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateAug 18, 1989
Grant dateMay 7, 1991
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Expiry dateAug 18, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB65H2301/4311
  • WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

An assembly system for demographic binding of signatures into a book on a collating and binding line includes a device for reading coded information printed directly on selected signatures, a feeder for supplying the coded signatures to the collating and binding line and an accumulator for transmitting the coded signatures to the collating and binding line in sequence with signatures being gathered on the line according to the information on the coded signatures.

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