Abstract: Books are produced by feeding juxtaposed webs of printed matter, obtained from rolls, past a glue applying means which applies glue between the webs; the webs joined by glue are cut to provide juxtaposed sheets in paginated relation which are then folded to signature form and delivered to a conveyor; preferably the conveyor in a saddle conveyor and the fold is so made as to produce signatures with a lap margin.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 11, 1974
Date of Patent:
June 29, 1976
Assignee:
McCain Manufacturing Corporation
Inventors:
William B. McCain, James F. Cosgrove, Edward J. Zagorski
Abstract: A folding machine having opposed discs respectively presenting a yieldable and an unyieldable annulus in tangential contact for imparting a score line to a sheet fed therebetween, inverting the scored sheet, the scored sheet after inverting is then folded (as by folding belts) to form a backbone after which the backbone is creased by being squeezed along its length to finish the fold.
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