Patent ID: 8220793

Claim:
An apparatus for thread-stitching of folded print products each having a spine including at least one fold, the apparatus comprising: a machine frame; a sewing station on which print products are stitched along the fold and are then sewn together along the spine to form a book block; a pivoting saddle having a ridge to supply individual print products positioned straddling the ridge thereon to the sewing station; a feeder to separate folded print products from a stack of folded print products; and a feeding arrangement including an underneath-arranged feed path extending underneath the sewing station connecting the feeder to the pivoting saddle, and having a feeding end that cooperates with the feeder to supply the individual print products to the feed path and a discharge end that operates to supply the individual print products to the pivoting saddle; wherein the sewing station, as seen from above the machine frame, is arranged on the machine frame of the apparatus, to remain between the feeding end of the feeding arrangement and the ridge of the pivoting saddle.