Patent ID: 8313276

Claim:
A method for the software-controlled production of book covers for individual books and short runs with changing format sizes, each of the book covers comprising a text block, covers and a covering material manufactured based on identical data, wherein the method of manufacturing the book covers comprises: a) acquiring data of a book to be bound in a desired format and entering the data in a software program, b) cataloguing the data, c) cutting the covers, the text block, and the covering material to a size corresponding to a format in a software-controlled process based upon the data of the book to be bound, d) aligning the cut adjusting mutually allocated cutting blades, e) adapting the covering material provided with glue to the format of the covers and spine inlays, f) fixing the covering material on an outer side onto the format-specific positioned covers and the format-specific spine inlays by gluing, h) suctioning up the covers and the covering material together and transporting the covers and the covering material, i) applying an endpaper to the format-specific book covers, j) cutting the endpaper to size with the cut adjusting mutually allocated cutting blades as a connection between the text block and the book cover to support headbands, k) transferring the endpaper and the text block by thermal sealing as an entire unit precisely onto the book cover and simultaneously forming a crease in the covering material, and l) forming a hollow space on the format-specific spine inlay for compensation of tensions occurring between the text block and the book cover when the book is closed.