Patent ID: 8790060

Claim:
A device for joining book block and book cover, comprising: a first conveyor device, which is embodied to lift a book block essentially aligned upright with its spine in front in a direction of movement from a lower position into an upper position; an adhesive application station for applying adhesive to the outsides of the book block, wherein the first conveyor device and the adhesive application station are embodied and arranged with respect to one another such that the adhesive application station applies adhesive to the outsides of the book block, while the first conveyor device moves the book block upwards through the adhesive application station; a feeding station, which is structured and arranged to arrange a book cover in a spread out flat form at an angle to the vertical above the adhesive application station and to align it such that the first conveyor device moves the book block after leaving the adhesive application station with its spine against the underside of the book cover so that the spine of the book block comes to bear against a center section of the book cover dividing the book cover into two halves; a joining station arranged above the adhesive application station, which is embodied with continued upward movement of the book block by the first conveyor device into the upper position to cause an adhesion of the book cover with its two halves on the two sides of the book block; and a removal station which is embodied to remove the book block provided with the book cover, wherein the removal station is arranged below the adhesive application station, wherein the first conveyor device is further embodied to subject the book block provided with the book cover, after it reaches the joining station, essentially to a reversal of the direction of movement and to lower the book block essentially in the same vertical plane to the lower position from the upper position, and wherein the adhesive application station is further embodied to deactivate the dispensing of adhesive during the downward movement of the book block provided with the book cover.