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US 7,077,797 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for creasing media to make booklets
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsJose Alvaro Barba Villanueva, Robert J. Lawton
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Abstract
This invention relates to an apparatus and method for making booklets. Such structures of this type, generally, employ a variety of creasing techniques in order to form the booklet.
Claims11
An apparatus for making a booklet, comprising:
- a media sheet feeder;
- a media sheet traverser located substantially adjacent to said media sheet feeder;
- a media sheet creaser located substantially adjacent to said media sheet traverser, further comprising;
- a first media guide plate, a first clamp located substantially along said first media guide plate, a first media buckler operatively connected to said first clamp, and a first creasing roller operatively connected to said first clamp and said first media buckler;
- a creased media sheet collector located substantially adjacent to said media sheet creaser;
- a creased media sheet fastener located substantially adjacent to said creased media sheet collector;
- and
- a booklet ejector located substantially adjacent to said creased media sheet fastener.
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A booklet making means, comprising:
- a media sheet feeder means for feeding a sheet of media;
- a means for traversing a sheet of media from said media sheet feeder means;
- a means for creasing said sheet of media, further comprising;
- a first clamping means, a means for creating a first buckle in a first side of said sheet of media, a means for creating a first crease in said sheet of media, a means for creating a second buckle in a second side of said sheet of media, and a means for creating a second crease in said sheet of media such that said second crease is located substantially adjacent to said first crease;
- a means for collecting creased sheets of media;
- a means for fastening said collected, creased sheets of media;
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- a means for ejecting a booklet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.