Patent ID: 7014182

Claim:
Apparatus for printing and binding a book, the latter comprising a book block having of a plurality of text pages with one edge of said book block constituting a spine, an accumulator receiving said text pages printed by said text page printer and forming said book block, said book having a cover adhesively secured to said spine, said apparatus comprising a text page printer, a cover printer, a cover transfer conveyor for receiving said cover printed by said cover printer and for conveying said cover to a binding station, a carriage movable along a workpath, said carriage being movable along said workpath from a first station at which said carriage is in position to receive said book block to an adhesive application station at which an adhesive is applied to the spine of said book block, and to said binding station, the later having a clamp for clamping said cover to said book block proximate said spine so as to effect the adhesive binding of said cover to said book block.