Patent ID: 7869756

Claim:
A bookbinding apparatus including an adhesive coating section which coats an adhesive onto a spine of a sheet bundle of a plurality of sheets, by relatively moving the adhesive coating section and the sheet bundle, wherein the bookbinding apparatus adheres a cover sheet onto the spine of the sheet bundle onto which the adhesive has been coated by the adhesive coating section, the adhesive coating section comprising: (a) a coating member provided in an adhesive tank, which coats the adhesive stored in the adhesive tank onto the spine of the sheet bundle; and (b) a scraping section provided in the adhesive tank, which scrapes the adhesive coated onto the spine of the sheet bundle, wherein the scraping section comprises: (i) a main scraping member; (ii) an auxiliary scraping member disposed downstream of the main scraping member in a scraping direction; and (iii) a reservoir disposed between the main scraping member and the auxiliary scraping member which temporarily stores the adhesive scraped by the main scraping member; wherein the adhesive temporarily stored in the reservoir is supplied to the spine of the sheet bundle.