US 2011/0262248 A1Published application

Binding Plant For Hardcover Books And Binding Method For These Books

AssigneeTecnau S.r.l.

InventorsGiuliano De Marco, Armando Aprato, Francesco Modica, Gianrico Scarton, Francesco Terrusi

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Abstract

A binding plant for hardcover books comprising a binding equipment and a false cover forming equipment. The false cover forming equipment carries out false covers, by positioning a pair of endpapers in correspondence of lateral binding flaps of a respective backstrip, arranging folds of the endpapers at a pre-assembling distance associated with the thickness of the text block and gluing margins of past-down sheets of the endpapers with binding edges of the backstrip. The binding equipment is feedable, at a cover input “IC”, with the false covers for carrying out book blocks by gluing the backstrips of the false covers with the binding edges of corresponding text blocks and refolding the pairs of endpapers on the respective text blocks. An electronic processing unit is settable for the control of the false cover forming equipment and the binding equipment as a function of the dimensions of the hardcover book to be bound.

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Dependent claims

A binding plant for hardcover books, wherein each hardcover book is of the type including a hardcover having a pairs of cover boards and a book block having a text block of a given thickness (TL), a backstrip (muslin) with a central portion and lateral bending flaps and a pair of endpapers with a free sheet, a paste down sheet and a respective fold, wherein, for the formation of book blocks, said binding plant comprises:

a binding equipment having a block input (IB) for receiving text blocks and a cover input (IC) for receiving covers;
a book information detecting or setting device, for obtaining book data on the thickness of a text block to be bound;
a false cover forming equipment for receiving and reciprocally positioning backstrips and pairs of endpapers and carrying out false covers;
an electronic processing unit for controlling the binding equipment and the false cover forming equipment as a function of said book data;
wherein:
each false cover is defined by a pair endpapers and a backstrip, in which the pair of endpapers are sided to a central portion of a backstrip with the paste down sheets of the pair endpapers glued to the lateral flaps of the backstrip;
the false cover forming equipment is controlled by the electronic processing unit in response to the book data for arranging the folds of the endpapers at a pre-assembling distance associated with the thickness (TL) of the text block and gluing respective margins of the paste down sheets of the endpapers close to the fold with the flaps of the backstrips;
and
the binding equipment is feedable, at the block input (IB), with the text blocks and, at the cover input (IC), with the false covers;
and wherein
the binding equipment is controlled by the electronic processing unit for forming the book blocks, by gluing the central portion of the backstrip of an entered false cover with a binding edge of an entered text block and refolding on the entered text block the pair of endpapers, together with the lateral flaps of the backstrip glued to the paste down sheets.

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A false cover forming equipment for receiving and reciprocally positioning backstrips and pairs of endpapers for text books and carrying out false covers to be used in a binding plant for hardcover books, comprising:

each backstrip having a central portion for gluing with a binding edge of the text book and lateral flaps while each endpaper has a free sheet, a paste down sheet and a respective fold between the free sheet and the paste down sheet;
each false cover being defined by a pair of endpapers and a backstrip, wherein the pair of endpapers are sided to a central portion of the backstrip with the paste down sheets of the endpapers glued to the lateral flaps of the backstrip;
and
said false cover forming equipment is provided for arranging the folds of the endpapers at a pre-assembling distance associated with the thickness (TL) of the text block and gluing the margins of the paste down sheet close to the winding with the lateral flaps of the backstrips;

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A method of binding for hardcover books, wherein each hardcover book is of the type including a hardcover with a pairs of cover boards and a book block with a text block, a backstrip (book muslin) and a pair of endpapers, wherein each endpaper is defined by two sheets refolded on an intermediate fold, while the backstrip has a central portion of gluing to a binding edge of the text block and two lateral flaps of gluing to a margin of the cover boards, and wherein said method provides a binding plant including:

a binding equipment having a block input (IB) for receiving text blocks and a cover input (IC) for receiving covers;
a book information detecting or setting device, 60 for obtaining book data on the thickness of the text block to be bound;
a false cover forming equipment for receiving and reciprocally positioning the backstrips and pairs of endpapers and carrying out respective false covers;
and
an electronic processing unit for controlling the binding equipment and the false cover forming equipment as a function of said book data;
said method comprising the following steps:
a) feeding the false cover forming equipment with a backstrip having a width consisting with the thickness (TL) of the text block and the width of the lateral flaps, and a pair of endpapers;
b) actuating the false cover forming equipment in response to the book data for arranging the folds of the endpapers at a pre-assembling distance associated with the thickness (TL) of the text block and gluing the margins of the paste down sheet close to the winding with the flaps of the backstrip;
c) feeding the binding equipment, through the block input (IB) and the cover input (IC), with the text blocks and respective false covers;
and
d) actuating the binding equipment for the formation of the book block under the control of the electronic processing unit for forming the book blocks, by gluing the central portion of the backstrip of an entered false cover with the binding edge of an entered text block and refolding on the text block the pair of endpapers, together with the lateral flaps of the backstrip glued to the paste down sheet.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.