Apparatus for feeding strips coated with a fusion adhesive on one of their surfaces to an advancing transport unit

US5441374A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY · US

Inventors

• Olaf Kosanke · Darmstadt, DE
• Sven Fischer · Leipzig, DE
• Helmut Domes · Stuttgart, DE
• Karin Rohrig · Wolfschlugen, DE
• Jurgen Weiblen · Münsingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 10, 1993
• Grant date: Aug 15, 1995
• Expiry date: Nov 10, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T83/902
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

Method and apparatus for feeding strips having a fusion adhesive coating on one of their surfaces to an advancing transport unit, in particular a sheet-stack binding apparatus where loose sheets are bound to form brochures or books. The method is carried out in that a thickness range of a sheet stack to be bound is associated with a specific width of a strip coated with a fusion adhesive, in that the association is effected in that the thickness of the sheet stack to be bound is determined or in that a selectable predetermined value is provided and in that the sheet-stack thickness value preselected or determined is used to control a drive mechanism (5, 6) which transfers the strip associated with the thickness range of the sheet stack to be bound from separate standby positions (7') of a number of strips (1c, 1d) of different widths to a handling position (12').