Bookbinding: process and apparatus inventions 10/08

20080260497 - Method of producing perfect-bound printed products formed from several printed products and installation for producing perfect-bound printed products: A method of producing perfect-bound printed products formed from several printed products, includes feeding printed products, which are gathered to form loose book blocks, are fed by feeders, which are arranged along a conveying line and are driven at least approximately with synchronous timing, to a conveyance device that has... Agent: Friedrich Kueffner

20080260497 - Method of producing perfect-bound printed products formed from several printed products and installation for producing perfect-bound printed products: A method of producing perfect-bound printed products formed from several printed products, includes feeding printed products, which are gathered to form loose book blocks, are fed by feeders, which are arranged along a conveying line and are driven at least approximately with synchronous timing, to a conveyance device that has... Agent: Friedrich Kueffner

20080240887 - Image forming apparatus, method of controlling the apparatus, and storage medium storing computer executable program code for executing the method: An image forming apparatus connectable to a bookbinding apparatus that binds a sheet stack with a cover sheet to produce a book includes an information acquisition unit, an area designation unit, and an image forming unit. The cover sheet includes a front cover area, a back cover area, and a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080240888 - Bookbinding system and bookbinding apparatus: A bookbinding system includes an image forming apparatus and a bookbinding apparatus connected to the image forming apparatus. The bookbinding system includes an image forming unit to form an image on a recording sheet; a loading unit to load, as a bookblock stack, plural recording sheets on which images are... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division