Patent ID: 6966553

Claim:
A device for preparing adhesive bindings of blocks and brochures in an optimally utilized space, said device comprising: a conveying device provided with a set of clamping rails for fixing a block or a brochure for moving said block or a stack of papers to be bound through the device, said clamping rails having a pick-up, and a return positions; a processing unit for preparing a straight block spine; a pair of feed units for adding end papers to be placed on a front side and a back side of said block or stack of papers, each of said pair of feed units arranged adjacent to and on either side of said processing unit and operates in a direction perpendicular to a conveying direction, each said feed unit further comprising a storage unit for holding a stack of end papers, an end paper separation unit for sucking a lowermost sheet from said stack of end papers, and a pull-off roller-belt transportation unit for pulling, transporting and dropping said lowermost sheet onto an exact end position of said aligning plate to flush align a lower edge of each of two said lowermost sheet with a right and a left lower spine edges of said block or stack of papers; a gluing station for applying glue to said spine of said block or stack of papers; and a delivery device for removing a completely glued said block or stack of papers, wherein said conveying device has a separate holding means for fixing said block or stack of papers being processed in said gluing station during said return of said clamping rails into a pick-up position for a new block or stack of papers.