Method of and apparatus for making books

US5295775A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• E.C.H. Will GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Milan Andjelic · Bad Oldesloe, DE
• Jens Punner · Hamburg, DE
• Siegfried Lampe · Ellerbek, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 10, 1992
• Grant date: Mar 22, 1994
• Expiry date: Dec 10, 2012

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B42C19/00
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

Books or brochures are produced by transporting a series of elongated piles of superimposed paper sheets longitudinally through at least one stitching station where the sheets of each pile are mechanically connected to each other, thereupon sideways through a folding station where the piles are folded midway between their long sides to constitute folded piles each having a spine and two exposed outermost sheets, and thereupon longitudinally and sideways through a laminating station wherein the folded piles are provided with rigid or semirigid covers which are glued to the outer sides of their outermost sheets. The folded piles are then advanced lengthwise through a backstripping station, are compressed subsequent to stacking, singularized, trimmed, stacked and thereupon subdivided into stacks of superimposed books or brochures.