| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 412037000 | Adhesive applier | 34 |
| 20080267735 | Bookbinding apparatus - A bookbinding apparatus for binding a book by coating adhesive on a spine of an aligned sheet bundle and pasting a cover sheet on the adhesive-coated spine, the bookbinding apparatus having: a coating section for coating adhesive on the spine of the sheet bundle with a variable coating thickness of the adhesive; a cover sheet pasting section for pasting a cover sheet on the adhesive-coated spine of the sheet bundle, and a control section for changing a time period from a time when adhesive coating ends to a time when the cover sheet pasting starts according to the coating thickness. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080298929 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - The invention is to stabilize an amount of application of a glue to sheets, to stabilize adhesive force between the sheets, and to further improve the productivity of a glued sheet bundle. A sheet processing apparatus includes a processing tray | 12-04-2008 |
| 20090016850 | Bookbinding Unit and Image-Forming System - Bookbinding unit that, in feeding cover sheets to a predetermined cover-fitting position, is able to feed various sheets/leaves, yet without defacing of or scratch marks in the cover sheets, nor press marks during cover formation, occurring. Provided are an incoming sheet conveyance path for sequentially bringing in printed sheets; a stacking tray unit for stacking and collating into bundles sheets from the conveyance path; a bookbinding process path that transports sheet bundles from the stacking tray unit to a predetermined cover-binding position; and a cover feed path for feeding cover sheets to the cover-binding position. A protective-sheet storage tray for supplying jacketing sheets is annexed to the cover feed path, and a conveyance unit that overlays fed cover sheets with jacketing sheets from their storage tray and transports the jacketed cover sheets to the cover-sheet binding position is disposed in the cover feed path. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090035095 | Bookbinding Unit and Image-Forming System Equipped with the Same - Bookbinding unit to avert sheets coming loose and other problems that, due to adhesive leakage in coating an adhesive onto a sheaf and pasting on a cover sheet, lead to poor binding. Provided with unit housing, sheaf retainer for retaining in an adhesive-application position sheets collated into book blocks, adhesive container for storing hot-melt adhesive, heater built-in to the adhesive container for melting the adhesive at a predetermined temperature, temperature controller for controlling the heater, applicator for applying adhesive to sheaves, and cover binder disposed downstream of the adhesive-application location for binding sheaves coated with adhesive together with cover sheets. The controller has a first sensor for detecting the adhesive temperature the adhesive container, and a second sensor for detecting ambient temperature inside the unit housing, and controls the heating temperature of the heater according to the temperatures detected by the first and second sensors. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090067951 | Bookbinding Unit, Bookbinding Method and Image-Forming System - Affords a bookbinding method and bookbinding unit that attach the bookmarker string when binding inner-bound sheets coated with adhesive on the spine portion to the spine portion of the coversheet. Apply adhesive to a spine portion of inner-bound sheets collated and stacked into a bundle, join that sheet bundle to a spine portion of a coversheet, and fold the coversheet over the sheet bundle. At that time, the bookmarker string is attached to the booklet simultaneously by joining the sheet bundle to the coversheet with the bookmarker string placed over the inside spine portion of the coversheet. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090081002 | BOOKBINDING APPARATUS AND BOOKBINDING SYSTEM - To form a consistent non-application area at an end of a spine of a sheet bundle by adjusting either an application start timing or application termination timing of adhesive through an application device. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090081003 | Bookbinding Unit - Faulty bookbinding due to sheet-size, etc. setting errors when bundle-collated inner-leaf sheets and coversheets they are bound with are placed in respective trays is stopped before it occurs. In an inner-leaf tray and a coversheet tray: (1) sheet sensors are disposed, and when both detect sheet presence, the inner-leaf sheets are transported to an adhesive-application location, and (2) sheet-side detection sensors or (3) sheet length and width detection sensors are disposed, and in either case when from the detection information predetermined encased booklet formation is impossible, device startup is halted. Width detectors are disposed in the inner-leaf and coversheet trays for detecting opposing sides of sheets stacked therein, and a controller is configured to convey into the device interior inner-leaf sheets from the inner-leaf tray when predetermined encased booklet formation is possible with the inner-leaf sheets and coversheets. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090097946 | BINDING APPARATUS, SHEET FINISHER AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - Disclosed is a binding apparatus including: a booklet producing section to produce a booklet by performing pasting onto a side face of a bundle of papers; a roughening section to perform roughening processing to one end part to which the pasting to the papers is performed; and a controlling section to judge whether the roughening processing by the roughening section is necessary or not based on a type of the paper before causing the booklet producing section to produce the booklet, and to cause the roughening section to execute the roughening processing to the paper when the controlling section judges that the roughening processing is necessary. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090245975 | BOOKBINDING APPARATUS AND BOOKBINDING SYSTEM - A bookbinding apparatus comprises
| 10-01-2009 |
| 20090269168 | BOOKBINDING SYSTEM USING ADHESIVE - A novel bookbinding system, and bookbinding method, solving various problems attributed to the use of stapler needle. This is provided a bookbinding system, and bookbinding method, comprising, with respect to a book produced through application of an adhesive to printed sheets, sheet folding and cutting, making perforations for adhesive penetration along a fold line on the stitch side thereof, carrying out adhesive application on a line or in a broken line, and performing sheet folding and stitching. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090317211 | NOTCH FORMING APPARATUS, BOOKBINDING APPARATUS AND BOOKBINDING SYSTEM - A notch groove Va is formed at a spine section Sb of a sheet bundle Sa on which an adhesive is applied so as to include a large amount of the adhesive. Also, a plurality of times of notch forming operation is performed while changing positions of notches V in respect to one sheet S so as to form a plurality of the notch grooves Va. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090324365 | System for automatically producing a bound album consisting of individual sheets, especially a photo album - A system for automatically producing a bound album consisting of individual sheets, for example, a photo album is disclosed. The system includes a unit which immediately draws in sheets output by a printer or a stacker; a unit for creasing said sheets so as to facilitate folding them and keeping said sheets in their folded form; an adhesive application unit designed to paste at least some of the sheets two by two; and a unit to flip part of the cover sheet. The sheets are received and compiled on a delivery board equipped with registration features for this purpose. The board is capable of translational movement in a direction substantially parallel to the direction in which the sheets are transported inside the system and movement between several positions in synchronism with the adhesive application unit. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100003108 | NOTCH FORMING DEVICE, BOOKBINDING APPARATUS AND BOOKBINDING SYSTEM - A notch forming device, comprises a notch forming section to form a notch on an edge of a sheet constituting a sheet bundle to be outputted in accordance with an execution of a job; a shifting section to shift a position of a notch to be formed on a sheet by the notch forming section; and a control section to control the shifting section. When plural sheet bundles are outputted in accordance with the execution of the job, the control section controls the shifting section to make a position of a notch on a leading sheet of each sheet bundle at the same position. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100158639 | INSTANT MEDIA BINDING SYSTEM - An instant book binding system and book cover for rapidly binding single- or double-sided documents, photographs, pages, and other forms of hardcopy media into soft or hard cover books is disclosed. The book binding method using the book cover or system can be performed without special skills or training, and does not require the use of ancillary equipment. The book cover system can be used in conjunction with output on a wide variety of media types, finishes, and stock weights from any type of printer or copier, or with photographs. The finished books retain the appearance and function of conventional mass produced soft and hard covered books. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100209215 | ADHESIVE APPLICATION APPARATUS AND BOOKBINDING APPARATUS - The present invention provides an adhesive application apparatus that can form a uniform application layer when applying an adhesive to an end face of a sheet bundle by an application roller even though a length or a width of the sheet bundle is not less than or not greater than a predetermined size, and a liquid amount in an immersed coating layer formed between the surface of the application roller and the application surface of the sheet bundle can be adjusted by increasing or decreasing based on an application length and/or an application width of the sheet bundle. Therefore, level adjusting means for adjusting a liquid surface level in an equipped accommodating chamber including an application roller to increase or decrease is provided in a glue container. This level adjusting means increases the liquid surface level above a predetermined value by resupplying a solid adhesive to the glue container, or is configured to enable adjusting a position of a reflux amount restricting member that restricts (stems) an adhesive amount refluxed along the surface of an application roller, or configured to enable moving an occupied position of an accommodated liquid capacity adjusting member that adjusts an allowable accommodation amount of the adhesive in the accommodating chamber. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100260582 | Bookbinding Apparatus - In binding a cover sheet together with a sheet bundle, ever-accurate spine-creasing irrespective of bundle thickness is made possible. A sheet stacker stacks sheets into bundles, an adhesive applicator applies adhesive to a spine part of the sheet bundles, and a cover-sheet binder binds cover sheets together with the spine parts. The cover-sheet binder is constituted from a left-and-right pair of spine-creasing press members arranged free to shift between standby and spine-creasing positions; a shifter that reciprocates the spine-creasing press members between the standby and spine-creasing positions; and a controller. The controller functions to vary, in accordance with sheet bundle thickness, any of: (1) the standby position of the press members; (2) the start time of an operation whereby the press members are shifted from the standby to the spine-creasing position; or (3) the traveling speed of the press members in shifting from the standby to the spine-creasing position. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100278618 | BOOKBINDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - The book binding device includes a section for forming a cut in the end side of a conveyed sheet, a control section for controlling the section for forming a cut, and a selection section for selecting each sheet for the presence/absence of a cut to be formed by the section for forming a cut, wherein the control section controls the formation of a cut by the section for forming a cut based on the presence/absence of the formation of a cut selected by the selection section, and then the mixture of sheets in which cuts are formed and sheets in which cuts are not formed are bundled and bound to complete a booklet. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20110008133 | Device for applying glue onto a book block - The invention pertains to a device for applying glue ( | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110014012 | Glue application device - A device for applying glue ( | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110129319 | APPARATUS FOR MAKING A BOOKLET-LIKE PRODUCT - An apparatus for making a booklet-like product comprises a paper feeding part; a superposing part for superposing a plurality of continuous webs of paper fed to travel from the paper feeding part, whereby a layered continuous sheet of paper is prepared; a cutting part for cutting the layered continuous sheet into successive separate layered sheets of paper; a conveyance passage; and a stacking and ejection part for causing the separate layered sheets traveling along the conveyance passage to be piled every predetermined number thereof and to be ejected in the form of piles of sheets, each to form the booklet-like product. The superposing part is provided with a paste nozzle for applying paste to one of two adjacent such continuous webs of paper on its one side and a further paste nozzle for applying paste to the upper surface of the layered continuous sheet. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110211935 | BOOKBINDING APPARATUS, BOOKBINDING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - In a bookbinding apparatus, an adhesive applying portion applies an adhesive to an end face of a sheet bundle allowed to stand in the substantially vertical direction, a storage portion that gathers and stores the sheet bundle which is applied with the adhesive and bound in the adhesive applying portion while letting the sheet bundle stand in the substantially vertical direction, transport means for conveying the sheet bundle while letting the sheet bundle stand in the substantially vertical direction from the adhesive applying portion to the storage portion along a substantially vertical transport path, and a cutting portion which is provided on the transport path between the adhesive applying portion and the storage portion, and which cuts an end face of the sheet bundle while letting the sheet bundle stand in the substantially vertical direction. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20120134767 | BOOKBINDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A bookbinding apparatus including an adhesive reservoir for storing melted adhesive, a heating member for heating and melting the adhesive stored in the adhesive reservoir, an adhesive coating member for coating a sheet bundle with the adhesive stored in the adhesive reservoir, and an adhesive deterioration detecting device for detecting a state of deterioration of the melted adhesive. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120155993 | BINDING APPARATUS - A binding apparatus performs a binding process by bonding the end side of the sheet bundle, and is provided with a notch cutter that forms a notch in the end side used in the sheet binding process in the middle of the sheet conveyance path of the binding apparatus. The notch forming unit includes a pair of sheet conveyance guides for forming a part of the sheet conveyance path, a cutter provided in a rotatably supported bracket, and a biasing means for applying a force to the cutter to face the sheet conveyance path formed by a pair of the sheet conveyance guides at all times. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120170996 | ADHESIVE APPLICATION MODULE FOR A BATCHER UNIT IN A BOOK BLOCK FINISHING MACHINE - A batcher unit for a book block finishing machine can include a plurality of receiving members. Each receiving member can be operable to receive and stack a corresponding plurality of sheets. The batcher unit can also include a plurality of adhesive applicators. At least one adhesive applicator can be associated with each receiving member. Each adhesive applicator can be displaceable relative to its associated receiving member to apply adhesive to at least one edge of the stack of sheets in the receiving member to form a book block, and each adhesive applicator can be operable to be independently displaceable with respect to the other adhesive applicators. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120170997 | EQUIPMENT FOR MAKING AN ALBUM CORE AUTOMATICALLY - The present utility model relates to an equipment for making an album core automatically, which comprises automatic feeding mechanisms for feeding an album paper and an interlayer, a creasing mechanism for creasing the middle of the album paper to form a crease, a folding mechanism for folding the album paper along the crease and a pasting mechanism for pasting the album or the interlayer by coating glue, wherein the automatic feeding mechanisms include an album paper feeding mechanism, an interlayer feeding mechanism and a control mechanism connected to the two feeding mechanisms. The equipment in the utility model has higher automaticity and can select the kinds of album papers freely. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120257947 | DEVICE FOR PRODUCING A BOOK BLOCK - Device for producing a book block composed of layers of connected sheets that are creased along a crease line. A stack forming station having a stack forming area assembling creased sheets, provided with glue on their outside, to form a stack for forming a book block and an abutting means delimiting the stack forming area for holding the stack and a pressing device with at least one pressing means generating pressure on the top of the stack to press the stack against the abutting means. During the generation of pressure on the top of the stack, the pressing means moves along the top of the stack in the stack forming area, and the stack forming station has an alignment device aligning a creased sheet with its first outside provided with adhesive to the abutting means. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20130084146 | BATCHER UNIT IN A BOOK BLOCK FINISHING MACHINE AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME - A batcher unit for a book block finishing machine can include at least one receiving member to receive a plurality of sheets and stack the plurality of sheets into a book block having a binding face lying in a binding plane. The batcher unit can also include at least one adhesive applicator to apply adhesive to the at least one binding face of the book block to bind together the edges of plurality of sheets. The adhesive applicator can be moveable in relative to the binding plane and can direct a stream of adhesive toward the binding plane along a first adhesive axis when the adhesive applicator is in a first position, and along a second adhesive axis when the adhesive applicator is in a second position. The first and second adhesive axes can intersect the binding plane at respective angles. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20140199136 | GLUE APPLICATION UNIT FOR PERFECT BINDING MACHINE - The gluing unit is provided with a sideways glue-applying member which can engage with throat regions (s) on both sides of a spine (r) of a book body (P), and the lateral glue-applying member is provided with a pair of scrapers ( | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140321948 | BOOKBINDING APPARATUS - A bookbinding apparatus includes an application roller that applies glue onto a back edge face of a sheet bundle and a bookbinding control unit that positions the application roller onto the back edge face and causes the roller to execute glue application. The bookbinding apparatus applies a required amount of glue determined by a sheet bundle thickness by, after applying side glues to both side surfaces of the sheet bundle, bringing the application roller in contact with a first position within a central region on the back edge face and rotating the roller in a forward direction, bringing the application roller in contact with a second position between the first position and a right side of the sheet bundle, and rotating the roller in the forward direction. The glue is leveled to form a flat layer of adhesive with an adequate thickness. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140348616 | GLUE APPLICATION UNIT FOR PERFECT BINDING MACHINE - The gluing unit is provided with: a glue tank ( | 11-27-2014 |
| 20150023766 | BOOKBINDING DEVICE HAVING A GLUE CARTRIDGE AND, A GLUE CARTRIDGE RECEIVING UNIT - A glue cartridge ( | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150037121 | System For Using an Exchangeable Glue Cartridge, And A Bookbinding Machine - An exchangeable glue cartridge to be used in a bookbinding machine comprises a retaining arrangement which forms a self-adjusting or adjustable jaw wherein the platform of the glue cartridge can be pushed in such a way that the glue spreading roller is downward or remains downward. The jaw limits the vertical mobility of the glue cartridge in both directions by limiting the mobility of the platform. In addition, the system comprises at least one rotatable converter for transmitting the motion to at least one rotating device located in the glue cartridge while the glue cartridge is mounted in place. By means of the self-adjusting or adjustable jaw it is possible to increase the manufacturing tolerances of the glue cartridge and to prevent the glue cartridge from getting blocked in the system. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150063953 | SHEET BINDING APPARATUS, SHEET BINDING METHOD AND SHEET POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS - In accordance with one embodiment, a sheet binding apparatus comprises a pasting section and a control section. The pasting section is capable of selectively carrying out pasting processing on at least one of a plurality of different given pasting target areas on sheets to be pasted. The control section controls the execution of the pasting processing based on the pasting section so that pasting target areas of a first sheet and a second sheet other than the first sheet within a plurality of sheets to be subjected to binding processing are different. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20190143732 | BINDING MECHANISM AND BINDING UNIT | 05-16-2019 |
