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US 4,537,650 AGranted
Sheet binding apparatus
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorRobert A. Coons, Jr.
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Abstract
An apparatus in which a plurality of sheets are adhesively bound together to form a booklet thereof. A glue applicator blade is reciprocated into and out of contact with a marginal region of sheets advanced thereto in seriatim. The glue applicator blade forms a line of adhesive on the marginal region of each sheet. The sheets are overlayed and pressed together to form a bound booklet thereof.
Claims14
An apparatus for adhesively binding together a plurality of sheets to form a bound booklet thereof, including:
- means for receiving successive sheets;
- an operator replaceable cartridge comprising a housing storing a supply of adhesive threein, a glue applicator blade, in communication with the housing, and being of a length at least equal to the length of the marginal region of the sheet adapted to have glue deposited thereon, and means for extending a portion of the blade from the housing in the operative mode when applying glue to the sheets and retracting the portion of the blade extending from the housing into the housing in the inoperative mode;
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- means for reciprocating the cartridge so that the portion of the blade extending outwardly from the housing thereof contacts the marginal region of successive sheets in said receiving means to apply a strip of glue thereon.
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A printing system, including:
- means for reproducing indicia on successive sheets;
- means for advancing at least the sheets having indicia reproduced thereon, in seriatum, along a sheet path;
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- means for adhesively binding together the sheets along the marginal region thereof extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to the sheet path to form a bound booklet thereof, said binding means comprising a housing storing a supply of adhesive therein, a glue applicator blade, in communication with the glue in the housing, and being of a length at least equal to the length of the marginal region of the sheet adapted to have glue deposited thereon, means for extending a portion of the blade from the housing in the operative mode when applying glue to the sheets and retracting the portion of the blade extending from the housing into the housing in the inoperative mode, and means for reciprocating said binding means so that the portion of the blade extending outwardly from the housing thereof contacts the marginal regional of successive sheets to apply a strip of glue thereon.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.