Device for manufacturing book-binding covers

US6669429B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Kolbus GmbH & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Jens E. Beermann · Rahden, DE
• Gerhard Lintelmann · Rahden, DE
• Peter Gross · Saarlouis, DE
• Frank Tautz · Rähden, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 19, 2001
• Grant date: Dec 30, 2003
• Expiry date: Feb 7, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B42C7/00
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

Apparatus for manufacturing book-binding covers including a board-feeding-in system for feeding in cover boards and a back insert and a copy-feeding-in system for feeding in reference copies. A copy cylinder grips the reference copies, guides them past a glue-applying roll, and joins them to the cover boards and back insert. A tucking-in and pressing-on device folds the protruding reference-copy edges round the board edges and presses the book covers on. A feeding-out device delivers the book covers in stacks. The material flow of the book boards, back inserts, reference copies, and book covers is orientated in an ascending manner in relation to the horizontal surface on which the apparatus stands. The gain in height thus achieved compensates for the losses in height in the board magazine, in the tucking-in system, in the feeding-out device, and on the onward conveyers so that the laying-on of the cover boards takes place at virtually the same, ergonomic working height as the taking-off of the book covers.