Bookbinding: process and apparatus inventions 03/09

20090081000 - Bookbinding unit: Bookbinding unit enabling, in encasing inner-leaf sheets in coversheets to form booklets, secure book-forming binding regardless of whether the inner-leaf sheets constitute a simple-sheet bundle or are made up of a plurality of folded-over signature sheets. Constituent components are: inner-leaf sheet tray; coversheet tray; bookbinding process path for guiding sheets... Agent: Judge Patent Associates

20090081001 - Bookbinding unit: Bookbinding unit eliminating the necessity of a user, in placing collated inner leaves onto a tray, pre-measuring the bundle thickness, and the danger of fingers getting pinched during the placement. Furnished with: inner-leaf tray; coversheet tray; gripping conveyor gripping and transporting bundles of leaf-tray sheets; coversheet conveyor feeding coversheet-tray covers... Agent: Judge Patent Associates

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.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

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... Agent: Judge Patent Associates

20090074541 - Bookbinding system and bookbinding apparatus: A bookbinding system to produce plural booklets includes: a bookbinding apparatus which forms a sheet bundle by stacking plural sheets on each of which an image has been formed by an image forming apparatus, and joins a spine of the sheet bundle and a cover sheet with an adhesive; a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090067950 - Bookbinding apparatus and image forming system: A bookbinding apparatus, which is capable of being attached to an image forming apparatus, and bookbinding by adhering a cover sheet onto a spine of a sheet bundle formed by a plurality of sheets on each of which an image has been formed by the image forming apparatus, the bookbinding... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

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... Agent: Judge Patent Associates

20090060683 - Method for producing adhesive-bound book blocks from gathered signatures: A method for producing adhesive-bound book blocks from gathered signatures for which the individual signatures forming a non-bound book block are supplied while positioned on the spine on a transfer section to an opened conveying clamp on a perfect binder and are subsequently held while clamped in by the closed... Agent: Venable LLP