Modular binding apparatus with rotating transport

US5213317A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Xerox Corporation · US

Inventors

• Barry P. Mandel · Fairport, US
• George J. Roller · Penfield, US
• Joseph J. Ferrara · Webster, US
• Venkatesh H. Kamath · Fairport, US
• William A. Brant · Boulder, US
• Louis J. Bressler · Webster, US
• John R. Falvo · Ontario, US
• Karl M. Kau · Rochester, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 27, 1992
• Grant date: May 25, 1993
• Expiry date: Jan 27, 2012

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B42C9/0056
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

An apparatus which adhesively binds a set of sheets by applying a strip having an adhesive to one surface thereof to the spine of the set. The apparatus includes a compiling station which holds at least one set of sheets. A transport advances the set of copy sheets from the compiling station to the bind and to a receiving station. The transport is movable from a non-operative position, coupling the compiling station to the receiving station, to an operative position coupling the compiling station to the binder. In addition, there is a manual insertion station located at the operative position enabling a set of sheets to be inserted into the transport when the transport is positioned in the operative position. The transport is then adapted to advance the manually inserted set of sheets to the binder which then binds the manually inserted set of sheets to one another.