Means For Casing-in Patents (Class 412/21)
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Patent number: 5868539Abstract: In the manufacture of a book, the book consisting of a cover and an inner book, the book cover is permanently shaped by the formation of folds in the articulation region thereof prior to being joined to the inner book. In the course of forming the folds in the cover, the covering material thereof is caused to undergo plastic flow and to be shaped so that beneficial stresses are created in the fold defining regions. The back of the cover may also be permanently shaped substantially simultaneously with the formation of the folds.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1997Date of Patent: February 9, 1999Assignee: Kolbus GmbH & Co., KGInventor: Horst Rathert
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Patent number: 5692866Abstract: A method and apparatus for binding books wherein a stack of pages are collated and aligned together. This stack is covered, top and bottom, with end pages which now comprise the first and last pages of the stack. Each end page includes a self-adhesive or sticky-back surface that is temporarily covered with a protective sheet. This stack is inserted within a clasp that is subsequently crimped, thereby securely binding the stack together. The crimped stack is then placed within an outer case or covering whereupon the protective sheet is removed and adhesive is exposed and applied to the case in order to secure or bind the pages to the case. Final compression of the case insures proper adhesion.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 1995Date of Patent: December 2, 1997Inventor: John B. Hefty
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Patent number: 5340155Abstract: This invention is a binding case for use in an office-type, small-volume, binding operation employing the hot-melt adhesive binding method. The invention is a design and method which cause the excess hot-melt adhesive which expresses laterally from each side of the adhesive strip to be directed in such a way that the excess adhesive does not adhesively bind the book block to the front or rear cover and does not bring about the destruction in appearance or functionality which such undesirable binding would cause. The invention involves a diverting element which forms a channel for the excess adhesive so that the excess adhesive does not bind the book block directly or functionally to the covers.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 1992Date of Patent: August 23, 1994Assignee: Avery Dennison CorporationInventor: Edward Podosek
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Patent number: 5288192Abstract: A device is disclosed for use with an image-forming apparatus, and includes a binder receiving portion for receiving a binder having papers and an adhesive therein, and a heating member for causing heating and melting of the adhesive in the binder when the binder is fully inserted in the binder receiving portion in order to adhere the papers in the binder. The heating member includes a contact element mounted in a bottom portion of the binder receiving portion and adapted to be contacted against by a contact portion of the binder. A power supply is provided to operate the heating member. A paper supply table is mounted to the binder receiving portion for use in feeding paper into the image-forming apparatus, and the paper supply table includes paper regulating guides which are adjustable in their relative positions to guide different sized papers into the image-forming apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 1992Date of Patent: February 22, 1994Assignee: Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukihiro Ito, Yutaka Shigemura, Takashi Kondo, Hideo Umezawa, Mitsuharu Yoshimoto, Satoshi Yano, Junichi Oura
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Patent number: 5252018Abstract: A sheet material binding apparatus for binding sheet materials with a cover material by a heat-adhesive bonding agent includes a heating plate on which the spine of the covering material having the bonding agent is placed, the heating plate being used for heating the bonding agent; a guide for supporting the covering material and the sheet materials vertically on the heating plate; a guide driver for moving the guide in a direction of a thickness of a set of the sheet materials to facilitate setting and removing of the covering material and the sheet materials; and a controller for controlling the guide driver.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 1992Date of Patent: October 12, 1993Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Canon Aptex Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Makoto Kitahara, Kimiaki Hayakawa, Shuichi Yabe
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Patent number: 5219453Abstract: A sheet binder for binding sheets by adhering the sheets to a back of a cover member by a heat-fusible adhesive. The sheet binder includes a supporting member for supporting the cover member having the back, to an inner surface of which the heat-fusible adhesive is applied, a heat generating member disposed in the proximity of the supporting member, and an alternate magnetic field generating device for generating an alternate magnetic field to heat the heat generating member.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 1991Date of Patent: June 15, 1993Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Canon Aptex Inc.Inventors: Hideaki Furukawa, Naoki Fuei, Norio Hikake, Kimiaki Hayakawa, Shuichi Yabe
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Patent number: 5174705Abstract: An apparatus and method for rubbing down spines of case bound books includes at least one case-in wing that carries case bound books. Each case-in wing includes a leading edge on which the spine of each case bound book is positioned. The case-in wing is moved at a first predetermined rate along a first path. The apparatus includes at least one rub down roller that is moved at a second predetermined rate along a second path. The second path crosses and is at an angle to the first path. During operation, the rub down roller rolls along the entire length of the spine of the book on the case-in wing. The second predetermined rate and the angle of the second path relative to the first path are selected such that the rub down roller moves at the same speed as the case-in wing to maintain a constant distance between the rub-down roller and the spine of the book.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 1992Date of Patent: December 29, 1992Assignee: R. R. Donnelley & Sons CompanyInventors: Don E. Detterman, David J. Bruns, Paul E. Depinet
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Patent number: 5044857Abstract: The apparatus and case are used with a core formed of sheets and end sheets covered on their exteriors with pressure sensitive material initially protected by release paper all bound together by narrow plastic binding strips along the spine edges of the core. The novel case for such a core has a spine having a strip of material covered by pressure sensitive adhesive of a width substantially greater than the thickness of the core plus twice the width of the binding strips, the same strip preferably being glued or otherwise permanently affixed to the spine of the case and extending outward to the inner edges of Davey board cover stiffeners (if used). The apparatus has right and left horizontal platens movable in and out relative to the center. The case is placed on the platens and centered.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 1990Date of Patent: September 3, 1991Assignee: VeloBind, Inc.Inventor: Phillip M. Crudo
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Patent number: 5026236Abstract: In an apparatus for making a booklet or album formed of a plurality of photographs bound by a cover sheet, many photographs are inserted between a pair of nipping plates in an insertable situation and are held loosely in an upright state on a photograph receiving member. In the insertable situation, the receiving member is vibrated and the photographs are straightened at lower ends and one side edges. The straightened photographs are nipped by a pair of nipping plates from both sides and moved to a bonding position above an adhesive layer on the cover sheet. Thereafter, a pressure roller is rolled in the longitudinal direction of the adhesive layer to press the cover sheet upwardly in order to attach the lower ends of the phographs to the adhesive layer. This cover sheet is bent in a channel shape by a V-shaped groove formed on a bending block along a rim on each side of the photographs.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 1990Date of Patent: June 25, 1991Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsumi Otake, Takekazu Yanagimoto, Shuichi Nakajima, Yuhei Kishimura
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Patent number: 4978267Abstract: A device is used for casing inner books in book covers. The device reciprocates in a vertical direction synchronously with an inner book conveyor. A feed roll system is provided for enclosing the inner book in the book cover. A clamping mechanism is provided for receiving and positioning the cover spine. A pair of alignment elements form part of the clamping mechanism and are operatively connected to an actuating device so as to move from first lateral positions relative to the plane of travel of the inner book towards the book cover, thereby centering the spine of the book cover relative to the plane of travel of the inner book and aligning it in a direction normal to the plane of travel of the inner book. Hold-down elements are provided for holding the book cover against a support surface during centering and alignment.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1989Date of Patent: December 18, 1990Assignee: Kolbus GmbH KGInventor: Helmut Kolkhorst
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Patent number: 4906156Abstract: A method of binding a book which includes gathering and binding a plurality of signature pages into a book block, connecting first and second upper end pages by a buckram hinge strip, connecting third and fourth lower end pages by a buckram hinge strip, sewing the hinge strips, top and bottom end pages and the inner portion of the book block together and then gluing a cover to the exterior of the top and bottom end pages, hinge strips and spine of the book block.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 1988Date of Patent: March 6, 1990Inventor: Herbert R. Axelrod
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Patent number: 4710256Abstract: Adhesive coated front edge faces of successive stacks of paper sheets are bonded to downwardly folded marginal portions of flap-over covers at an aligning station which receives stacks from a first source along a first path wherein the stacks are caused to advance at right angles to their adhesive-coated edge faces and which receives covers with adhesive-coated marginal portions from a second source. The covers move along a second path lengthwise of their marginal portions and in parallelism with the front edge faces of the stacks in the first path. Each stack which arrives at the aligning station is disposed behind the downwardly bent marginal portion of the corresponding cover and is thereupon moved with the cover through the nip of two rollers which apply external pressure to bond the marginal portion to the edge face of the corresponding stack.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 1985Date of Patent: December 1, 1987Assignee: E.C.H. Will (GmbH & Co.)Inventors: Dieter Ladewig, Bernd Ramcke
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Patent number: 4650216Abstract: A paperback-hard cover conversion insert and a method for using same. The insert is usable with a hard book cover having two spaced-apart stiff panel portions and a flexible hinge portion therebetween. The insert includes a flexible sheet attachable to the panel portions; a narrow, stiff piece of material with a configuration typical of that of a spine of a book, having a first side which is convex and a second side which is concave; and a compressible resilient material having in cross-section a generally elliptical configuration. The narrow, stiff piece of material has its first side attached to the flexible sheet between said panel portions, and its second side attached to a first convex side of the compressible, resilient material. The second convex side of the compressible resilient material is attachable to the spine of a book to position the book between the panel portions.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 1983Date of Patent: March 17, 1987Inventor: Dennis W. Carlson
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Patent number: 4569620Abstract: In apparatus for manufacturing and packaging bound books a turnover device is provided for turning over alternate books fed by a conveyor from a building-in machine and leading to a stacking device where such books are accumulated in stacks and delivered for packaging. The turnover device lifts alternate books from the consecutive line of books on an in-feed conveyor, turns the lifted books 180.degree., and replaces them in the spaces left vacant when the books were lifted. The conveyor system then transports these books positioned in alternate orientation, such that when they are stacked, their spines or backbones are on alternate sides of the stack which renders each stack less high, more stable and compact and easier to handle in subsequent packaging and shipping operations. The turnover device comprises a pair of continuous belts about rotating drums where each belt is twisted through 180.degree.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 1982Date of Patent: February 11, 1986Assignee: permaTek, Inc.Inventor: Michael A. Lynch
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Patent number: 4565477Abstract: A method for bookbinding on a continuously-moving, constant-speed conveyer belt operation with the case or back-strip being centrally located on the axis of motion. As the case is formed between opposing rotary irons, glue or paste is then applied to the upper insides of both sides of the case. A book block is next dropped on one side of the case, the book block is aligned to register with the case; and the other side of the case is folded over to fasten to the upper side of the book block to form the book and prepare it for pressing and crimping of the building-in operation, without any interruption of the motion of the book along the conveyer system.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1984Date of Patent: January 21, 1986Assignee: permaTek, Inc.Inventor: Herbert R. Axelrod
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Patent number: 4505629Abstract: A book making machine comprising casing-in instrumentalities and, optionally, building-in instrumentalities arranged so that the operations required to wrap a book with a cover are effected rectilinearly in succession comprising a cover feeder for delivering covers, one at a time, to a conveyor for movement along a predetermined path and, in succession, a heater for heating the covers, an embosser for embossing the covers to form fold lines, an adhesive-applying device for applying adhesive to the covers, a book feeder for depositing book inserts on the covers, registering devices for registering the inserts with the covers, wrapping devices for wrapping the covers about the inserts, pressure-applying devices for applying pressure to the wrapped inserts and forming devices for forming hinges in the cover panels at the back of the book.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 1982Date of Patent: March 19, 1985Assignee: permaTek, Inc.Inventor: Michael A. Lynch
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Patent number: 4491448Abstract: In a book binding machine, covers are individually brought into registration with and subsequently adhesively bonded to moving book blocks. The registration is accomplished by first moving the covers along a path parallel to the path of motion of the blocks at a speed which is slower than the blocks and then engaging the covers by an alignment mechanism which at the time of engagement moves in synchronism with the book block as the block overtakes the cover. The alignment mechanism travels about a circular path so as to periodically intercept a moving cover and is resiliently braked when synchronized movement with a book block is established.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1982Date of Patent: January 1, 1985Assignee: Rahdener Maschinenfabrik August Kolbus GmbH & Co.Inventors: Helmut Anders, Gunter Dietrich