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US 2002/0119029 A1Published application
Systems and methods of registering a cover with respect to a text body
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsRobert L. Cobene, Steven W. Trovinger, Raymond G. Schuder, John P. Ertel
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Abstract
Systems and methods for registering a cover with respect to a text body to create bound documents with floating and attached spines are described. In one embodiment, a text body having a front end, two opposed side ends, and a spine end that is located opposite to the front end is formed from two or more sheets, and a single-piece cover is registered with respect to at least one end of the text body.
Claims21
A bookbinding method, comprising:
- forming from two or more sheets a text body having a front end, two opposed side ends, and a spine end located opposite to the front end;
- and
- registering a single-piece cover with respect to at least one end of the text body.
A bookbinding system, comprising:
- a sheet binder configured to form from two or more sheets a text body having a front end, two opposed side ends, and a spine end located opposite to the front end;
- and
- a cover binder configured to register a single-piece cover with respect to at least one end of the text body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.