Bookbinding: process and apparatus inventions 04/08

20080095596 - Semi-automatic plastic spiral binding machine: A book binding machine has a page-forming mode and a spiral-binding mode, where a curved inexpensive piece of binding spiral coil or a convex member form a collection of pages being bound into a concavity on the spine of the pages to be bound with a proper pitch angle to... Agent: Alfred M. Walker

20080089761 - Bookbinding coil end cutting and crimping machine: A machine for cutting and crimping the ends of a helical coil inserted into holes at an edge of a book to hold the coil in place is adjustable to accommodate different diameters of coil, A guide member for centering the axis of the coil in a centering direction is... Agent: Ade & Company Inc.

20080080958 - Binding device sizing guide: Disclosed herein is a sizing guide or gage for selecting a binding device to bind a set of sheets using a binding machine typically referred to as a comb binder. The sizing guide includes a plurality of apertures corresponding to a range of binding devices, each aperture corresponding to a... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20080080959 - Bookbinding apparatus and image forming system: Provided is a bookbinding apparatus including: a conveying unit which sequentially conveys sheets; a gluing unit which glues the sheets conveyed by the conveying unit; a stacking unit which sequentially stacks the sheets glued by the gluing unit; a pressurizing unit which pressurizes glued portions of the sheets stacked on... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto