Apparatus for making integrated book lining

In a bookmaking machine having a frame and a lining platform operatively mounted on the frame for receiving and applying a series of linings to spines of a succession of books being conveyed to the platform, an apparatus for making integrated linings from a supply of strip lining material and comprising feeding means for supporting the strip for travel along a feed path to the lining platform and including a feed roll assembly journaled on the frame, the feed roll assembly being engageable with the strip and intermittently operable for advancing successive lengths of strip in uniform movements into position on the lining platform, a printing mechanism supported on the frame in the strip feed path upstream of the feed roll assembly for printing simulated headbands on a surface of the strip parallel to and adjacent its longitudinal side edges, punch means mounted on the frame between the feed roll assembly and the printing mechanism for punching marginal cutouts uniformly spaced along each longitudinal side edge of the strip and in aligned opposed relation to cutouts on its opposite side edge, and a cutter mounted on the frame between the feed roll assembly and the lining platform, the cutter being located in the strip feed path downstream of the punch means at a distance equally divisible by a measured extent of the advancing movements of the strip which corresponds to a preselected width of the linings in relation to the thickness of the books to which the linings are to be applied, the cutter being selectively operable during dwells between strip movements for successively cutting the printed and punched strip transversely of its longitudinal axis along a center line extending between opposed marginal cutouts to provide a series of integrated linings of preselected width having simulated headbands.

In a bookmaking machine having a frame and a lining platform operatively mounted on the frame for receiving and applying a series of linings to spines of a succession of books being conveyed to the platform, an apparatus for making integrated linings from a supply of strip lining material and comprising feeding means for supporting the strip for travel along a feed path to the lining platform and including a feed roll assembly journaled on the frame, the feed roll assembly being engageable with the strip and intermittently operable for advancing successive lengths of strip in uniform movements into position on the lining platform, a printing mechanism supported on the frame in the strip feed path upstream of the feed roll assembly for printing simulated headbands on a surface of the strip parallel to and adjacent its longitudinal side edges, corner relief means mounted on the frame between the feed roll assembly and the printing mechanism for forming marginal cutouts uniformly spaced along each longitudinal side edge of the strip and in aligned opposed relation to cutouts on its opposite side edge, and a cutter mounted on the frame between the feed roll assembly and the lining platform, the cutter being located in the strip feed path downstream of the corner relief at a distance equally divisible by a measured extent of the advancing movements of the strip which corresponds to a preselected width of the linings in relation to the thickness of the books to which the linings are to be applied, the cutter being selectively operable during dwells between strip movements for successively cutting the strip transversely of its longitudinal axis along a center line extending between opposed marginal cutouts to provide a series of integrated linings of preselected width having simulated headbands.