Patent ID: 6669429
Filing Date: 2003-12-30
Classification: B42C

Abstract:
Apparatus for manufacturing book-binding covers from cover boards, back inserts and reference copies, each of the reference copies having edge portions, each of the cover board having edges, the device being supported on a substantially horizontal surface and comprising:a board magazine adapted for storing cover boards; a board feeding-in system adapted for feeding in cover boards from the board magazine and the back insert; a copy magazine adapted for storing reference copies; a copy feeding-in system adapted for feeding in reference copies from the copy magazine; a glue-applying roll; a copy cylinder adapted for gripping the reference copies fed in by the copy feeding-in system, guiding the reference copies past the glue-applying roll, and joining the reference copies to the cover boards and back insert to form a book cover; a tucking-in and pressing-on device adapted for receiving the book cover, folding edge portions of the reference copies protruding beyond the edges of the cover boards around the edges of the cover board, and pressing the book cover; and a feeding-out device adapted for delivering the book covers in stacks; wherein the feeding-in of cover boards, back inserts and reference copies and delivery of book covers defines a direction of material flow through the apparatus, the direction of material flow ascending, relative to the horizontal surface, as far as the feeding-out device.