Apparatus and method for assembling signatures
US5013022A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 18, 1989 |
| Grant date | May 7, 1991 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 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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