Patent ID: 7927055

Claim:
A binding-in machine for pressing in and joint forming books having a case, a book block with a fore edge cut and a spine, the machine including devices for aligning the book block relative to the case as well as for post-forming the rounded book block by means of a forming rail that acts upon the fore edge cut of the book block, wherein the book is supported on its spine and/or in the case joints, comprising: a plurality of pressing devices each including a pair of opposite pressing plates the distance between which can be varied in order to exert full-surface pressure upon the sides of the book, said pressing devices being moveable into a book transfer receiving position; a case joint forming device operatively associated with each pressing device that includes a pair of opposite heated joint forming rails the distance between which can be varied in order to form case joints on said books; a book gripper that laterally takes hold of the books and receives the books from an upstream transfer position in which the books are positioned vertically, said book gripper transporting a respective vertically positioned book to a depositing position between the opened pressing plates of a pressing device when the pressing device is in the book transfer receiving position, said book gripper being moveable reciprocally about a pivoting axis that is oriented perpendicular to the pressing plates in order to turn and transfer the books from the upstream transfer position into the depositing position between said pressing plates; and an alignment table on which the book gripper deposits the book on its spine and on which the book is subsequently aligned and post formed within the pressing device.