Patent ID: 6354582
Filing Date: 2002-03-12
Classification: B42C,B65H

Abstract:
A bookbinding machine having an inner-book transporting system, comprising a conveyer having a roller-chain with individual links that engage movably in one another, continuously running around deflecting wheels, and a multiplicity of clamps for clamping-in stacks of leaves, which clamps are disposed at equal mutual distances from one another so as to be movable, drive-wise, at points of articulation of the conveyer and are guided in tracks on a machine frame that has an entry, an exit, and a multiplicity of processing stations along a linear conveyer path in a processing region of the machine frame, wherein the improvement comprises that the machine frame has a conveyer path section (A) of a length corresponding to a grid arrangement (R) of processing stations with a defined basic dimension (X), and said multiplicity of processing stations are in the form of discreet functional modules each having a breadth along the path that is a multiple of dimension (X), which processing stations are insertable at different places in the path section (A) in the grid arrangement (R) and can be interchanged with one another.