Patent ID: 8152152

Claim:
An apparatus for sealing paper with paste which seals folded pieces of a folded sheet of paper by an adhesive, comprising a paper-feeding unit on which the folded sheets of paper are loaded and which supplies the sheets of paper one-sheet by one-sheet, a pasting main body which seals open ends of the sheet of paper supplied from the paper-feeding unit by means of an adhesive, and a paper-receiving unit on which the sealed sheets of paper discharged from the pasting main body are loaded, wherein the pasting main body comprises an opening mechanism which opens a closed sheet of paper in the vertical direction, an adhesive applying mechanism which applies, in a streaky form, a peelable temporary adhesive to an upper surface of an open end of a lower folded piece of the opened sheet of paper, a sealing mechanism which superposes an upper folded piece on the lower folded piece after application of the temporary adhesive, and which temporarily adheres open ends of the upper and lower folded pieces, and a conveying mechanism which conveys the sheet of paper from the opening mechanism to the sealing mechanism through the adhesive applying mechanism.