Patent ID: 8915349

Claim:
A device for feeding book blocks ( 2 ) standing in an upright orientation on a spine or fore edge cut, to subsequent processing equipment, comprising: an infeed channel ( 11 ) for the subsequent equipment, having a channel bottom ( 12 ), lateral channel guides ( 13 ) and at least one pusher ( 14 ) with an operatively associated first drive that pushes the book blocks ( 2 ) standing on their spine ( 2 a ) or fore edge cut forward into the equipment along a conveying direction; a book block feeder ( 30 ) that feeds the book blocks ( 2 ) into the infeed channel ( 11 ) vertically from above, transverse to the conveying direction of the infeed channel ( 11 ); and at least one push-out unit ( 51 ) with an operatively associated second drive separate from the first drive, which pushes vertical book blocks from the book block feeder ( 30 ) into the infeed channel ( 11 ) along said conveying direction.