Bookbinding: process and apparatus inventions 09/09

20090238661 - Method and apparatus for trimming and transporting printed products in a trimmer: A book trimmer is provided. The book trimmer includes an edge trimming knife movable back and forth in a book travel direction and a conveyor downstream of the edge trimming knife. The conveyor includes a reciprocating section movable back and forth in the book travel direction receiving books trimmed by... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20090238662 - Servo driven apparatus for trimming and transporting printed products in a trimmer: A book trimmer is provided including an edge trimming knife driven by a drive motor and a conveyor downstream of the edge trimming knife driven by a servo motor. The drive motor also drives a section of the conveyor.... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20090232621 - Paper-sheet handling device: A paper-sheet handling device relating to the present invention has a configuration such that a binder paper alignment unit for temporarily reserving a plurality of paper-sheets perforated at predetermined positions, a movement mechanism for binding the bundle of paper-sheets thus aligned owing to the above by means of a binding... Agent: Smith-hill And Bedell, P.C.

20090232622 - Bookbinding system: A punching processing unit punches holes in a paper bundle delivered from a preprocessing device. A bookbinding unit includes a cartridge for stocking a plurality of rings, and performs a ring binding by binding the paper bundle with the rings. A detecting unit detects an abnormality of a ring in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C