A machine for producing books, comprising:
- a sheet web dispensing station for dispensing a sheet web moved in its longitudinal direction, printed and/or coated and/or phototechnically processed on one side and provided with print marks and/or print job codes, the sheet web dispensing station comprising:
- at least one supplier for supplying the sheet web,
- a downstream sheet web storage device, and
- a first conveyor device for drawing the sheet web off the at least one supplier of the sheet web and for conveying the sheet web into the sheet web storage device,
- a cross-cutting station downstream of the sheet web dispensing station, the cross-cutting station comprising
- a sensor device for detecting print marks and/or print job codes located on the sheet web and for emitting an output signal representing the result of the detection,
- a downstream cross-cutting unit, which is structured and arranged to cut the sheet web into discrete sheets lying one behind the other in the direction of movement,
- a second conveyor device, which is structured and arranged to convey the sheet web out of the sheet web dispensing station depending on the output signal of the sensor device intermittently and with format accuracy and/or with register accuracy to the cross-cutting unit, and
- a third conveyor device downstream of the cross-cutting unit, which is structured and arranged to convey the discrete sheets away, while achieving a predetermined distance from one another,
- a grooving and creasing station downstream of the cross-cutting station for centrally grooving and creasing the sheets crosswise to their direction of movement,
- a laminating station for the flat connection of several consecutive creased sheets to one another, the laminating station comprising:
- an adhesive application device for the application of adhesive essentially over the entire surface of the top of the creased sheets,
- a stacker that is structured and arranged to stack several sheets one on top of the other to form a book block, and
- a pressing device for applying pressure in an essentially flat manner to the respectively uppermost creased sheet,
- a three-side cutting station comprising:
- a fourth conveyor device, which is structured and arranged to convey the book block from the laminating station into the three-side cutting station depending on a selected format, such that the front edge of the book block lying opposite the book spine comes to rest on a defined cutting line running essentially crosswise to the direction of movement of the book blocks,
- a cross-cutter arranged along the cutting line, and
- two lateral blades, which are spaced apart from one another essentially crosswise to the direction of movement of the book blocks and arranged in a crosswise adjustable manner for the purpose of format adjustment,
- a book cover supply station for supplying and feeding a respectively predetermined individual book cover for the respective book block, the book cover supply station comprising:
- a cover supplier for supplying the book covers,
- a fifth conveyor device for removing a book cover from the cover supplier, and
- a grooving device for grooving the book cover to produce a strip-shaped center section forming the spine of the book, which is bordered by two grooves and divides the book cover into two halves,
- a joining station downstream of the three-side cutting station for joining a book block and an assigned book cover, the joining station comprising
- a sixth conveyor device for bringing the book block into a joining position,
- an adhesive application device, which is structured and arranged to apply adhesive in an essentially flat manner on the two outsides of the book block, while the sixth conveyor device moves the book block through the adhesive application device,
- a seventh conveyor device for bringing the individual book cover into the joining position,
- a book cover feeding device for placing the two halves of the book cover onto the outsides, provided with adhesive, of the book block for completing the book, and
- a removal device for removing the completed book, and
- a dispensing station for dispensing the completed books.