# US 7,410,157 B2 · Device for conveying book blocks on a conveying line of a machine for producing books, magazines, or the like > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 7,410,157 B2 - Document ID: US7410157B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 11/077,094 - Filed: 2005-03-10 - Published: 2005-09-15 - Granted: 2008-08-12 - Earliest claimed: 2004-03-11 - Assignees: Muller Martini Holding AG - Inventors: Thomas Stolz - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7410157B2 ## CPC - B65G 19/265: {for article conveyors, e.g. for container conveyors} - B42C 19/08: Conveying between operating stations in machines (conveyors in general B65G) - B65H 5/16: by pusher, needles, friction, or like devices adapted to feed single articles along a surface or table - B65H 31/28: Bands, chains, or like moving receivers (for articles piled on edge B65H31/06) - B65H 2301/4352: with pushers, e.g. the articles being substantially horizontal - B65G: TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS (packaging B65B; handling thin or filamentary materials, e.g. paper sheets or thread, B65H; cranes B66C; portable mobile or lifting or hauling appliances, e.g. hoists, B66D; devices for lifting or lowering goods for loading or unloading purposes, e.g. fork-lift trucks, B66F9/00; emptying bottles, jars, casks, barrels or similar containers, not otherwise provided for, B67C9/00; delivering or transferring liquids B67D; filling or discharging vessels for liquefied, solidified or compressed gases F17C; pipe-line systems for fluids F17D) - B42C: BOOKBINDING (cutting or perforating machines, devices or tools B26; folding sheets or webs B31F; ornamenting books B44) - B65H: HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES ## Abstract A conveyance device for the pressing of glued spines of a book block for books, in which the book blocks, with their spines directed downward, pass through a pressing section that reduces the spine swell. The book blocks, gripped between working pieces of revolving traction elements, pass through the pressing section, which acts on the sidepieces of the book spine. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A device for conveying book blocks on a conveying line of a machine for producing books, magazines, or the like, the device comprising: a revolving conveying element installed along the conveying line for conveying the book blocks in a conveying direction; a traction mechanism; finger-like pushers mounted on the traction mechanism and projecting into a conveying channel transversely to the conveying direction, wherein the finger-like pusher has a predetermined breaking zone located at a distance from a mounting point of the pusher to the traction mechanism, wherein the pusher is rotatable, and the mounting point is formed by an axis of rotation of the pusher, wherein the pusher finger has a U-shaped cross section adjacent to the predetermined breaking zone, wherein the pusher has a hub and, in the predetermined breaking zone, the pusher finger is connected by connecting pieces spaced from one another and running transversely to the conveying direction with the hub of the pusher, which hub is arranged on the axis of rotation. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The device in accordance with claim 1 for forming loose book blocks by gathering printed products on a conveying line, along which a conveying channel with feeders that feed the printed products and the conveying element that conveys the book blocks are arranged. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The device in accordance with claim 1, wherein the sidepieces of the U-shaped cross section extend away from the conveying direction. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The device in accordance with claim 1, wherein the pusher finger has side pieces which have a diminishing cross section in the direction of the longitudinal extension of the pusher finger. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The device in accordance with claim 1, wherein the pusher is mounted by the hub on a bearing block connected with the traction mechanism. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The device in accordance with claim 5, with a traction mechanism constructed as a roller chain, wherein the bearing block is mounted on the roller chain by a mounting plate designed as an outside plate of a chain link. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The device in accordance with claim 6, wherein the mounting plate forms part of a shackle-type chain connector. ### Claim 8 (depends on 5) The device in accordance with claim 5, wherein the bearing block has two bearing webs that are spaced apart and directed transversely to the conveying direction, between which bearing webs the hub (30) of a pusher is supported on a socket pin that extends through the bearing webs. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The device in accordance with claim 8, wherein the front end of the socket pin has a smaller diameter than the rear end of the socket pin. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The device in accordance with claim 8, wherein different bores in the hub of the pusher are assigned to the ends of the socket pin and to the bearing webs of the bearing block. ### Claim 11 (depends on 8) The device in accordance with claim 8, wherein to provide axial locking of the socket pin, a locking mechanism is provided between the socket pin and the bearing block.