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US 9,033,329 B2Granted
Multi-function binding machine
AssigneeMeccanotecnica S.p.A.
InventorsRoberto Fustinoni, Giuseppe Andreoni
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Abstract
A multi-function binding machine is proposed. The multi-function binding machine (700) comprises a binding station (135) for binding blocks of signatures (105), and a feeding station (115) for receiving signatures in succession, opening the signatures, and feeding the signatures to the binding station; in the solution according to an embodiment of the invention, the multi-function binding machine further comprises a further feeding station (715) for receiving pre-signatures in successions, folding groups of at least one pre-signature into further signatures (729), and feeding the further signatures to the binding station.
Claims44
A multi-function binding machine comprising:
- a binding station for binding blocks of signatures;
- a hopper for loading a stack of folded signatures;
- a feeding station for extracting the signatures in succession from the hopper, opening the signatures, and feeding the signatures to the binding station;
- an additional hopper for loading a stack of pre-signatures to be folded;
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- an additional feeding station for extracting the pre-signatures in successions from the additional hopper, folding groups of at least one pre-signature into additional signatures, and feeding the additional signatures to the binding station;
- a binding driving means for driving the binding station;
- a feeding driving means for driving the feeding station;
- an additional feeding driving means for driving the additional feeding station;
- and
- a control means for controlling the binding means, the feeding driving means and the additional feeding driving means independently to stop the binding station while the feeding station and the additional feeding station are controlled to stack a plurality of signatures and/or additional signatures thereby forming a composite signature for the binding in the binding station.
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A multi-function binding machine comprising:
- a binding station for binding blocks of signatures;
- a hopper for loading a stack of folded signatures,
- a feeding station for extractin the s natures in succession from the hopper, opening the signatures, and feeding the signatures to the binding station;
- an additional hopper for loading a stack of pre-signatures to be folded;
- an additional feeding station for extracting the pre-signatures in successions from the additional hopper, folding groups of at least one pre-signature into additional signatures, and feeding the additional signatures to the binding station;
- a binding driving means for driving the binding station;
- a feeding driving means for driving the feeding station;
- an additional feeding driving means for driving the additional feeding station;
- and
- a control means for controlling the binding driving means the feeding driving means and the additional feeding driving means independently, the control means comprising means for detecting an error caused by a missing signature and/or a missing additional signature in the feeding station and/or in the additional feeding station, respectively, and means for stopping the binding station to cause the feeding station and/or the additional feeding station to restore the missing signature.
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A method for controlling a multi-function binding machine comprising the steps of:
- driving a binding station for binding blocks of signatures;
- driving a feeding station for extracting signatures in succession from a hopper loading a stack of folded signatures, opening the signatures, and feeding the signatures to the binding station;
- and
- driving an additional feeding station for extracting pre-signatures in successions from an additional hopper loading a stack of pre-signatures to be folded, folding groups of at least one pre-signature into additional signatures, and feeding the additional signatures to the binding station, and
- controlling binding driving means for driving the binding station, feeding driving means for driving the feeding station and additional feeding driving means for driving the additional feeding station independently to stop the binding station while the feeding station and the additional feeding station are controlled to stack a plurality of signatures and/or additional signatures thereby forming a composite signature for the binding in the binding station.
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A method for controlling a multi-function binding machine comprising the steps of:
- driving binding station for binding blocks of signatures;
- driving a feeding station for extracting signatures in succession from a hopper loading a stack of folded signatures, opening the signatures, and feeding the signatures to the binding station;
- driving an additional feeding station for extracting pre-signatures in successions from an additional hopper loading a stack of pre-signatures to be folded,folding groups of at least one pre-signature into additional signatures, and feeding the additional signatures to the binding station,
- detecting an error caused by a missing signature and/or a missing additional signature in the feeding station and/or the additional feeding station, respectively, and
- controlling binding driving means for driving the binding station, feeding driving means for driving the feeding station and additional feeding driving means for driving the additional feeding station independently to stop the binding station to cause the feeding station and/or the additional feeding station to restore the missing signature.
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A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium embodying a computer program, the computer program being loadable into a working memory of a data-processing system thereby configuring the data-processing system to perform a method for controlling a multi-function binding machine comprising the steps of:
- driving a binding station for binding blocks of signatures
- driving a feeding station for extracting signatures in succession from a hopper loading a stack of folded signatures, opening the signatures, and feeding the signatures to the binding station;
- driving an additional feeding station for extracting pre-signatures in successions from an additional hopper loading a stack of pre-signatures to be folded, folding groups of at least one pre-signature into additional signatures, and feeding the additional signatures to the binding station;
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- controlling binding driving means for driving the binding station, feeding driving means for driving the feeding station and additional feeding driving means for driving the additional feeding station independently to stop the binding station while the feeding station and the additional feeding station are controlled to stack a plurality of signatures and/or additional signatures thereby forming a composite signature for the binding the binding station.
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A binding machine comprising:
- a binding station for binding blocks of signatures;
- a feeding station for receiving signatures in successions, opening the signatures, and feeding the signatures to the binding station;
- a binding driving means for driving the binding station;
- a feeding driving means for driving the feeding station;
- and
- a control means for controlling the binding driving means and the feeding driving means independently to stop the binding station while the feeding station is controlled to stack a plurality of signatures thereby forming a composite signature for the binding in the binding station.
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A binding machine comprising:
- a binding station for binding blocks of signatures;
- a feeding station for receiving signatures in successions, opening the signatures and feeding the signatures to the binding station;
- a binding driving means for driving the binding station;
- a feeding driving means for driving the feeding station;
- and
- a control means for controlling the binding driving means and the feeding driving means independently to stop selectively the binding station and the feeding station during a processing of the signatures, the control means comprising means for detecting an error caused by a missing signature in the feeding station, and means for stopping the binding station to cause the feeding station to restore the missing signature.
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A method for controlling a binding machine comprising the steps of:
- driving a binding station for binding blocks of signatures;
- driving a feeding station for receiving signatures in successions;
- opening the signatures, and feeding the signatures to the binding station;
- and
- controlling binding driving means for driving the binding station and feeding driving means for driving the feeding station independently to stop selectively and/or to operate at different speeds the binding station while the feeding station is controlled to stack a plurality of signatures thereby forming a composite signature for the binding in the binding station.
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A method for controlling a binding machine comprising the steps of:
- driving a binding station for binding blocks of signatures;
- driving a feeding station for receiving signatures in successions, opening the signatures, and feeding the signatures to the binding station;
- detecting an error caused by a missing signature in the feeding station;
- and
- controlling binding driving means for driving the binding station and feeding driving means for driving the feeding station independently to stop the binding station to cause the feeding station to restore the missing signature.
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A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium embodying a computer program, the computer program being loadable into a working memory of a data-processing system thereby configuring the data-processing system to perform a method for controlling a binding machinecomprising the steps of:
- driving a binding station for binding blocks of signatures;
- driving a feeding station for receiving signatures in successions, opening the signatures, and feeding the signatures to the binding station;
- and
- controlling binding driving means for driving the binding station and feeding driving means for driving the feeding station independently to stop the binding station while the feeding station is controlled to stack a plurality of signatures thereby forming a composite signature for the binding in the binding station.
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A multi-function binding machine comprising:
- a binding station for binding blocks of signatures;
- a hopper for loading a stack of folded signatures;
- a transport station for transporting the signatures in succession to the binding station;
- a feeding station for extracting the signatures in succession from the hopper, opening the signatures, and feeding the signatures to the transport station;
- an additional hopper for loading a stack of pre-signatures to be folded;
- an additional feeding station for extracting the pre-signatures in successions from the additional hopper, folding groups of at least one pre-signature into additional signatures, and feeding the additional signatures to the transport station;
- a binding driving means for driving the binding station;
- a transport driving means for driving the transport station;
- a feeding driving means for driving the feeding station;
- an additional feeding driving means for driving the additional feeding station;
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- a control means for controlling the binding driving means and the transport driving means independently of the feeding driving means and of the additional feeding driving means to stop the transport station and the binding station and/or to stop the transport station and to operate at different speeds the binding station with respect to the feeding station and/or the additional feeding station during a processing of the signatures to cause the feeding station and the additional feeding station to stack a plurality of signatures and/or additional signatures in the transport station thereby forming a composite signature for the binding in the binding station.
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A method for controlling a multi-function binding machine comprising the steps of:
- driving a binding station for binding blocks of signatures;
- driving a transport station for transporting the signatures in succession to the binding station;
- driving a feeding station for extracting signatures in succession from a hopper loading a stack of folded signatures, opening the signatures, and feeding the signatures to the transport station;
- driving an additional feeding station for extracting pre-signatures in successions from an additional hopper loading a stack of pre-signatures to be folded, folding groups of at least one pre-signature into additional signatures, and feeding the additional signatures to the transport station, and
- controlling binding driving means for driving the binding station and transport driving means for driving the transport station independently of feeding driving means for driving the feeding station and of additional feeding driving means for driving the additional feeding station to stop the transport station and the binding station and/or to stop the transport station and to operate at different speeds the binding station with respect to the feeding station and/or the additional feeding station during a processing of the signatures to cause the feeding station and the additional feeding station to stack a plurality of signatures and/or additional signatures in the transport station thereby forming a composite signature for the binding in the binding station.
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A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium embodying a computer program, the computer program being loadable into a working memory of a data-processing system thereby configuring the data-processing system to perform a method for controlling a multi-function binding machine comprising the steps of:
- driving a binding station for binding blocks of signatures;
- driving a transport station for transporting the signatures in succession to the binding station;
- driving a feeding station for extracting signatures in succession from a hopper loading a stack of folded signatures, opening the signatures, and feeding the signatures to the transport station;
- driving an additional feeding station for extracting pre-signatures in successions from an additional hopper loading a stack of pre-signatures to be folded, folding groups of at least one pre-signature into additional signatures, and feeding the additional signatures to the transport station, and
- controlling binding driving means for driving the binding station and transport driving means for driving the transport station independently of feeding driving means for driving the feeding station and of additional feeding driving means for driving the additional feeding station to stop the transport station and the binding station and/or to stop the transport station and to operate at different speeds the binding station with respect to the feeding station and/or the additional feeding station during a processing of the signatures to cause the feeding station and the additional feeding station to stack a plurality of signatures and/or additional signatures in the transport station thereby forming a composite signature for the binding in the binding station.
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A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium embodying a computer program, the computer program being loadable into a working memory of a data-processing system thereby configuring the data-processing system to perform a method for controlling a multi-function binding machine comprising the steps of:
- driving a binding station for binding blocks of signatures;
- driving a feeding station for extracting signatures in succession from a hopper loading a stack of folded signatures, opening the signatures, and feeding the signatures to the binding station;
- driving an additional feeding station for extracting pre-signatures in successions from an additional hopper loading a stack of pre-signatures to be folded, folding groups of at least one pre-signature into additional signatures, and feeding the additional signatures to the binding station,
- detecting an error caused by a missing signature and/or a missing additional signature in the feeding station and/or the additional feeding station, respectively, and
- controlling binding driving means for driving the binding station, feeding driving means for driving the feeding station and additional feeding driving means for driving the additional feeding station independently to stop the binding station to cause the feeding station and/or the additional feeding station to restore the missing signature.
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A binding machine comprising:
- a binding station for binding blocks of signatures;
- a transport station for transporting the signatures in succession to the binding station;
- a feeding station for receiving signatures in successions, opening the signatures, and feeding the signatures to the transport station;
- a binding driving means for driving the binding station;
- a transport driving means for driving the transport station;
- a feeding driving means for driving the feeding station;
- and
- a control means for controlling the binding driving means and the transport driving means independently of the feeding driving means to stop the transport station and the binding station and/or to stop the transport station and to operate at different speeds the binding station and the feeding station during a processing of the signatures to cause the feeding station to stack a plurality of signatures in the transport station thereby forming a composite signature for the binding in the binding station.
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A method for controlling a binding machine comprising the steps of:
- driving a binding station for binding blocks of signatures;
- driving a transport station for transporting the signatures in succession to the binding station;
- driving a feeding station for receiving signatures in successions, opening the signatures, and feeding the signatures to the transport station;
- and
- controlling binding driving means for driving the binding station and transport driving means for driving the transport station independently of feeding driving means for driving the feeding station to stop the transport station and the binding station and/or to stop the transport station and to operate at different speeds the binding station and the feeding station during a processing of the signatures to cause the feeding station to stack a plurality of signatures in the transport station thereby forming a composite signature for the binding in the binding station.
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A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium embodying a computer program, the computer program being loadable into a working memory of a data-processing system thereby configuring the data-processing system to perform a method for controlling a binding machine comprising the steps of:
- driving a binding station for binding blocks of signatures;
- driving a transport station for transporting the signatures in succession to the binding station;
- driving a feeding station for receiving signatures in successions, opening the signatures, and feeding the signatures to the transport station;
- and
- controlling binding driving means for driving the binding station and transport driving means for driving the transport station independently of feeding driving means for driving the feeding station to stop the transport station and the binding station and/or to stop the transport station and to operate at different speeds the binding station and the feeding station during a processing of the signatures to cause the feeding station to stack a plurality of signatures in the transport station thereby forming a composite signature for the binding in the binding station.
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A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium embodying a computer program, the computer program being loadable into a working memory of a data-processing system thereby configuring the data-processing system to perform a method for controlling a binding machine comprising the steps of:
- driving a binding station for binding blocks of signatures;
- driving a feeding station for receiving signatures in successions, opening the signatures, and feeding the signatures to the binding station;
- detecting an error caused by a missing signature in the feeding station;
- and
- controlling binding driving means for driving the binding station and feeding driving means for driving the feeding station independently to stop the binding station to cause the feeding station to restore the missing signature.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.