Patent ID: 7926798

Claim:
A method of making a saddle-stitched brochure ( 1 ), comprising the steps of: arranging a plurality of sheet feeding units ( 10 a to 10 h ) of a sheet collating machine ( 4 ) in an order along a vertical direction; loading a printed material stack of small printed materials ( 2 , 2 a ) into a selected sheet feeding unit ( 10 c ) arranged between an uppermost sheet feeding unit ( 10 a ) and a lowermost sheet feeding unit ( 10 h ); loading sheet stacks of sheets (P 1 to P 7 ) in the sheet feeding units other than the selected sheet feeding unit ( 10 c ); discharging and conveying the sheets (P 1 to P 7 ) and the small printed materials ( 2 , 2 a ), one by one, from the sheet feeding units ( 10 a to 10 h ) in descending order to a saddle-stitching machine ( 5 ) along a sheet conveying path (G) such that leading edges of the sheets (P 1 to P 7 ) are aligned with one another and a leading edge of the small printed material ( 2 , 2 a ) is offset from the aligned leading edges of the sheets (P 1 to P 7 ), while the sheets (P 1 to P 7 ) and the small printed material ( 2 , 2 a ) are overlapped with one another in an order corresponding to the order of the arranged sheet feeding units ( 10 a to 10 h ) so as to form a collated stack (Q) upon arrival at the saddle-stitching machine ( 5 ); folding the collated stack (Q) in half in the saddle-stitching machine ( 5 ) at a center portion of the collated stack (Q) along a folding line (L), and also simultaneously folding the small printed material ( 2 , 2 a ) within the collated stack (Q) along the folding line (L); and stitching the sheets (P 1 to P 7 ) of the collated stack(Q) together in the saddle-stitching machine ( 5 ) on the folding line (L) with wire at adjacent stitched wire portions ( 3 , 3 ) spaced apart and away from opposite sides of the small printed material ( 2 , 2 a ) that is removably held in the saddle-stitched brochure ( 1 ).