Bookbinding apparatus and bookbinding system
AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorMasato HATTORI
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Abstract
A bookbinding apparatus including: a stacking section for stacking sheets to form a bundle of sheets; a sheet-conveyance shifting section for conveying a sheet, or a cover sheet to become a cover of a booklet to a predetermined position; a melt tank for storing a hot-melt adhesive, and a bookbinding control section configured to execute a bookbinding mode in which a booklet is formed by coating adhesive inside the melt tank onto an edge surface of a bundle of sheets and adhering the cover sheet to the edge surface, onto which the adhesive has been coated, of the bundle of sheets, and an adhesive discharging mode in which the adhesive inside the melt tank is discharged outside the melt tank.
Claims18
A bookbinding apparatus comprising:
- a stacking section for stacking sheets to form a bundle of sheets;
- a sheet-conveyance shifting section for conveying a sheet, or a cover sheet to become a cover of a booklet to a predetermined position;
- a melt tank for storing a hot-melt adhesive;
- and
- a bookbinding control section configured to execute a bookbinding mode in which a booklet is formed by coating an adhesive inside said melt tank to an edge surface of the bundle of sheets and adhering the cover sheet to the edge surface, onto which the adhesive has been coated, of the bundle of sheets, and an adhesive discharging mode in which the adhesive inside said melt tank is discharged outside said melt tank.
A bookbinding system comprising:
- an image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet;
- and
- the bookbinding apparatus described in claim which generates a booklet by receiving a sheet from said image forming apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.