Method for making integrated book lining
AssigneeThe Smyth Manufacturing Company
InventorPeter P. Savich
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Abstract
In making integrated linings to be applied to spines of a succession of books in a bookmaking process, a high speed low cost method is disclosed which includes feeding strip stock from a supply of lining material, printing simulated headbands on one surface of that strip adjacent its longitudinal side edges and cutting the strip transversely to its longitudinal axis to form a succession of individual linings to be applied to spines of a succession of books.
Claims32
A method of making integrated book spine linings to be applied to spines of a succession of books and comprising the steps of providing a supply of strip lining material having a crosswise dimension between opposite longitudinal side edges generally corresponding to the book spine length, feeding a strip from the supply of lining material, printing simulated headbands on an outer surface of the strip adjacent its longitudinal side edges, folding the longitudinal side edges of the strip toward one another to expose the outer surface of the strip with the folded crosswise strip dimension between its opposite longitudinal side edges being substantially equal to the book spine length, and cutting the strip transversely to its longitudinal axis to form a succession of individual linings to be applied in registered relation respectively to spines of a corresponding succession of books.
A method of making integrated linings to be applied to spines of a succession of books and comprising the steps of feeding a strip from a supply of lining material in one direction parallel to a longitudinal axis of the strip, printing simulated headbands on an outer surface of the strip during the feeding step to form a continuous pattern of simulated headbands parallel to and adjacent each longitudinal side edge of the strip, punching equally spaced marginal cutouts of substantially identical size along each longitudinal side edge of the strip with the cutouts along each edge of the strip being in opposed aligned relation to cutouts on an opposite edge of the strip and with uninterrupted longitudinal side edges between cutouts substantially equal in length to the thickness of book spines to which the linings are to be applied, and cutting the strip transversely to its longitudinal axis along a cutoff line projecting between centers of aligned cutouts on opposed strip edges to form substantially identical individual linings to be applied to book spines of substantially identical size.
A method of making integrated linings to be applied to spines of a succession of books and comprising the steps of feeding a strip from a supply of lining material in one direction parallel to a longitudinal axis of the strip, printing simulated headbands on an outer surface of the strip during the feeding step to form a continuous pattern of simulated headbands parallel to and adjacent each longitudinal side edge of the strip, forming equally spaced marginal cutouts of substantially identical size along each longitudinal side edge of the strip with the cutouts along each edge of the strip being in opposed aligned relation to cutouts on an opposite edge of the strip and with uninterrupted longitudinal side edges between cutouts substantially equal in length to the thickness of book spines to which the linings are to be applied, and cutting the strip transversely to its longitudinal axis along a cutoff line projecting between centers of aligned cutouts on opposed strip edges to form substantially identical individual linings to be applied to book spines of substantially identical size.
A method of making integrated linings to be applied to spines of a succession of books and comprising the steps of feeding a strip from a supply of lining material, printing simulated headbands on a surface of the strip adjacent its longitudinal side edges, cutting the strip transversely to its longitudinal axis to form a succession of individual linings to be applied in registered relation respectively to spines of a corresponding succession of books, and punching equally spaced marginal cutouts of substantially identical size along each longitudinal side edge of the strip with the cutouts along each edge of the strip being in opposed aligned relation to cutouts on the opposite edge of the strip, the feeding of the strip being effected in one direction parallel to its longitudinal axis and occurring intermittently with substantially equal advance strip movements interrupted by a dwell, the printing of the strip occuring during its advance movements to form a continuous pattern of simulated headbands parallel to and adjacent each longitudinal side edge of the strip, the cutting and punching of the strip occuring substantially simultaneously during each dwell between advance movements of the strip to form substantially identical individual linings to be applied to book spines having substantially identical size, the cutting being performed on a punched downstream portion of the strip.
A method of making integrated linings to be applied to spines of a succession of books and comprising the steps of feeding a strip from a supply of lining material, printing simulated headbans on a surface of the strip adjacent its longitudinal side edges, cutting the strip transversely to its longitudinal axis to form a succession of individual linings to be applied in registered relation respectively to spines of a corresponding succession of books, and punching equally spaced marginal cutouts of substantially identical size along each longitudinal side edge of the strip with the cutouts along each edge of the strip being in opposed aligned relation to the cutouts on the opposite edge of the strip.
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