Patent · US Expired

Method of and apparatus for making books, brochures and the like

US5417535A · kind A · utility

21Cited by

4References

27Claims

0Family size

Assignee

E.C.H. Will GmbH · DE

Inventors

Milan Andjelic · Bad Oldesloe, DE
Peter Huser · Ellerau, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 16, 1993
Grant date	May 23, 1995
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 16, 2013

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB42C19/00
WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

Books or brochures are produced by transporting a series of elongated piles of superimposed paper sheets longitudinally through at least one bonding station where certain marginal portions of the sheets of each pile are adhesively connected to each other, and thereupon sideways through a laminating station wherein the piles are provided with rigid or semirigid covers which are glued to the outer sides of their outermost sheets. The 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.

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