Patent ID: 9061538
Filing Date: 2015-06-23
Classification: B42C

Abstract:
1. A bookbinding unit for encasing in coversheets and forming into booklets inner-leaf sheets collated into bundles, the bookbinding unit comprising: an inner-leaf tray on which inner-leaf sheets are set into a bundle; a cover tray on which coversheets are set; a bookbinding process path for guiding sheet bundles from said inner-leaf tray to, in order, an adhesive application location and a cover-binding location; inner-leaf conveyance means for transferring sheet bundles from said inner-leaf tray and along said bookbinding process path; coversheet conveyance means for feeding coversheets from said cover tray and setting them into place in the cover-binding location; adhesive application means, disposed in the adhesive application location, for applying adhesive to a spine-portion endface of inner-leaf sheets; cover binding means, disposed in the cover-binding location, for binding inner-leaf sheets together with coversheets; and control means for controlling said inner-leaf conveyance means, said adhesive application means, and said cover binding means; wherein said control means