Patent ID: 8308412

Claim:
An adhesive applicator comprising: sheet bundle holding means that holds a sheet bundle at a predetermined posture; an adhesive container that stores adhesive; applicator roller means disposed in the adhesive container; moving means that drives the applicator roller means or the sheet bundle holding means so that the applicator roller means and sheet bundle move relative to each other; and a scraper blade that adjusts an adhesive layer applied to a backside of the sheet bundle by the applicator roller means to a predetermined thickness, said scraper blade being disposed above the adhesive container to move relative to a backside of the sheet bundle, the scraper blade being formed of a plate-shaped member inclined at an acute angle with respect to a sheet bundle thickness direction intersecting a direction that the sheet bundle or the scraper blade moves to push away excess adhesive from one end of the sheet bundle in the thickness direction to the other end thereof across the backside, wherein the scraper blade is inclined with respect to both sheet thickness direction and sheet width direction.