B42C 5/04
Preparing the edges or backs of leaves or signatures for binding: by
Official title: by notching or roughening
B42C5/04 (Preparing the edges or backs of leaves or signatures for binding: by) appears on 49 US grants and 57 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B42C- Granted patents
- 49
- Published applications
- 57
- Assignees
- 31
- Inventors
- 94
- Latest grant
- 21 Apr 2026
Filings by year
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| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 0 | 3 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 4 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 3 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 4 |
| 2008 | 2 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 10 |
| 2010 | 4 | 5 |
| 2011 | 1 | 3 |
| 2012 | 2 | 2 |
| 2013 | 3 | 0 |
| 2014 | 1 | 2 |
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| 2016 | 0 | 2 |
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| 2018 | 3 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2 | 5 |
| 2020 | 3 | 2 |
| 2021 | 4 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Bookbinding machine16US 4,484,850 A1984
- Apparatus and method of on demand printing, binding, and trimming a perfect bound book16US 7,014,182 B22006
- Bound book and method of making such books9US 4,408,780 AR. R. Donnelley & Sons Company · 1983
- Apparatus for notching the back of a book9US 4,741,236 AHarris Graphics Corporation · 1988
- Method and device for adhesive binding of printed products9US 5,961,268 AFerag AG · 1999