Patent ID: 9731537
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: B42C,B65H

Claim:
1. A method for providing a stack composed of book covers for production of finished books, comprising: supplying a task stack of book covers having identical cover formats and stacked one above another in an unknown or known sequence, wherein each book cover in the task stack includes an identifier comprising cover information; separating out and conveying the book covers from the task stack as separate book covers in a sequence that does not change for the following method steps, until a completion signal is transmitted: counting the separated out book covers, detecting of the identifier on each separated out book cover, reading cover information out of the respective identifier, and temporarily storing the cover information; depositing the separated out book covers directly one on top of the other in the sequence in which they were separated out for forming a detected stack; and storing an identifier that identifies the detected stack together with the temporarily stored cover information, wherein the identifiers of the respective book covers are used to request book blocks in the sequence of the book covers in the detected stack in the production of the finished books.