B42B 2/04
With straight needles
Official title: with straight needles
B42B2/04 (With straight needles) appears on 14 US grants and 7 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B42B- Granted patents
- 14
- Published applications
- 7
- Assignees
- 9
- Inventors
- 20
- Latest grant
- 2 Dec 2025
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 1 | 0 |
| 1989 | 2 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2007 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2011 | 1 | 0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Method and apparatus for sewing book blocks without blind stitch by means of hooks2 Dec 2025US 12,485,692 B2Meccanotecnica S.p.A.
- Sewing of book blocks without blind stitch16 Mar 2021US 10,946,687 B2Meccanotecnica S.p.A.
- Method and apparatus for the thread-stitching20 Oct 2020US 10,807,402 B2Muller Martini Holding AG
- Stapler11 Aug 2020US 10,737,523 B2
- Post-processing device and image forming apparatus20 Jan 2015US 8,936,237 B2Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
- Method and apparatus for sewing book blocks without blind stitch by means of hooks29 Feb 2024US 2024/0066906 A1Meccanotecnica S.p.A.
- Sewing of book blocks without blind stitch22 Aug 2019US 2019/0255871 A1Meccanotecnica S.p.A.
- Method and apparatus for the thread-stitching9 May 2019US 2019/0135014 A1Muller Martini Holding AG
- Stapler18 Jan 2018US 2018/0015767 A1
- Post-processing device and image forming apparatus8 May 2014US 2014/0128237 A1Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Rotational switching apparatus with separately driven stitching head15US 4,858,539 AVeb Kombinat Polygraph "Werner Lamberz" Leipzig · 1989
- Bookbinding method and apparatus7US 4,704,973 AKolbus GmbH & Co. KG · 1987
- Bearded needle for bookbinding and embroidery machines7US 4,790,254 AErnst Beckert Nadelfabrik Commandit-Gesellschaft · 1988
- Method and apparatus for manufacturing book blocks6US 5,887,532 AGrapha-Holding AG · 1999
- Method and apparatus for producing book blocks from a stack of signatures5US 5,507,524 AGrapha-Holding AG · 1996