Device and method for the alignment of a book block consisting of single sheets and/or signatures

A device for alignment of a book block consisting of single sheets and/or signatures, the device being useable in a processing machine in which manufacturing of books or printed products is carried out, the device being arranged upstream of a first processing station within the processing machine, the book block being feedable directly or indirectly into the device automatically or by hand, the device comprising:

• at least one alignment station having a number of driven or freely rotatable rollers which are arranged next to one another and which are operatively connected to a base plate or form an integral roller conveyor, the book block being moveable on the rollers towards at least one stop surface arranged at an end such that, as a result of at least one movement operatively connected to the stop surface, the book block undergoes an alignment of the single sheets and/or signatures at at least one book block edge, and such that, following alignment, the book block is grippable by at least one transport clamp for further processing.

A device for alignment of a book block consisting of single sheets and/or signatures, the device being useable in a processing machine in which manufacturing of books or printed products is carried out, the device being arranged upstream of a first processing station within the processing machine, the book block can being feedable directly or indirectly into the device automatically or by hand, the device comprising:

• at least one alignment station which having at least one of a base plate, a base plate equipped with rollers and a roller conveyor, which has at least one substantially vertically extending stop surface at an end thereof which is configured to generate a movement exerted on the book block towards the processing station such that the book block, as a result of the movement, undergoes an alignment of the single sheets and/or signatures at at least one book block edge, wherein the movement of the book block is completed at a state in which the leading book block edge matches a delimitation point on the base plate or the roller conveyor, at which point the book block is grippable by a transport clamp for further processing.