Patent ID: 8858148

Claim:
A binding plant for hardcover books, wherein each hardcover book is of a type including a hardcover having a pair of cover boards and a book block having a text block of a given thickness (TL), a backstrip (muslin) with a central portion and lateral binding flaps and a pair of endpapers with a free sheet, a paste down sheet and a respective fold, wherein, said book block is provided for being assembled with said hardcover by gluing backs of the cover boards with the lateral binding flaps of the backstrip and the paste down sheets of the endpapers, and wherein for formation of the book block, said binding plant comprises: a binding equipment having a block input (IB) for receiving the text block and a cover input (IC) for receiving a cover to be bound with the text block; a book information detecting or setting device, for obtaining book data on the thickness of a text block to be bound; a false cover forming equipment for receiving, reciprocally positioning and gluing the backstrip and the pair of endpapers and carrying out a false cover; an electronic processing unit for controlling the binding equipment and the false cover forming equipment as a function of said book data; wherein: each said false cover is defined by pair of endpapers sided to the central portion of the backstrip with margins of the paste down sheets close to the fold and glued to the lateral flaps of the backstrip; the fold of the endpapers at a pre-assembling distance associated with the thickness (TL) of the text block and gluing the margins of the paste down sheets of the endpapers with the flaps of the backstrips; and the binding equipment is feedable, at the block input (IB), with the text block and, at the cover input (IC), with said false cover as the cover to be bound with the text block; and wherein the binding equipment is controlled by the electronic processing unit for forming the book blocks, by gluing the central portion of the backstrip of said false cover with a binding edge of the text block and refolding on the text block the pair of endpapers, together with the lateral flaps of the backstrip glued to the margins of the paste down sheets.