Patent ID: 8894341
Filing Date: 2014-11-25
Classification: B42C

Abstract:
1. A bookbinding apparatus comprising: sheet stacking means for stacking sheets into bundles; adhesive application means for applying, in an adhesive application position, adhesive to a spine part of a sheet bundle from said sheet stacking means; cover sheet conveyance means for conveying a cover sheet into a binding position where the cover sheet is bound together with a sheet bundle; spine-creasing means composed of a pair of spine-creasing press members, for guiding a cover sheet into the binding position, when the cover sheet is being conveyed to the binding position, by drawing at least one of the press members toward the other, and for binding a cover sheet in the binding position together with a spine part of the sheet bundle to which adhesive has been applied by said adhesive application means, and for performing, in a spine-creasing position, a creasing process on the cover sheet; a sheet-bundle conveyance means for maintaining the sheet bundle in a substantially upright position, and for conveying the sheet bundle, substantially upright and aligned with the path of conveyance, from said adhesive application position to said spine-creasing position; wherein