Kolbus Gmbh & Co. Kg

Christoph Schm&uuml;cker

Ansgar Rohe-Krebeck

Carsten Brommer

Reimer Voss

A method for transferring book blocks or the like into a transport device of a bookbinding machine. The book block is first clamped in a force-locking manner. At least one corner of the back edge or of the front edge of the book block is aligned with a position, which can be set in a predefined manner, by relative displacement of the two sides of the book block in the plane of the book block. The book block is then clamped in a force-locking manner by the transport device.

Method and device for transferring book blocks into a transport device belonging to a bookbinding machine

A machine for casing inner books into book cases by gluing the outer end papers of an inner book to the inner surfaces of the covers of a book case, having a conveyor, which at cyclical intervals feeds successive inner books with the spine directed upwards in a vertical plane of motion to a cyclically fed book case, which is held in position in the plane of motion of the inner book, and having means for moving the covers up against the inner book and joining the end papers and book covers, is, in view of a compact design which is less expensive to manufacture, characterised by a feeding conveyor ( ), which feeds the inner book ( ) with the spine directed upwards to a lower receiving point and has a device ( ) for spreading apart the outer end papers ( ) of the inner book ( ), and by a gripper ( ), which grasps the inner book ( ) between the spread-apart outer end papers ( ) and conveys it from the lower receiving point to an upper joining point.

Machine for casing inner books into book cases

A conveyer device for bookbinding machines having a number of processing stations and having plate or cleated chains or the like which take over book blocks and convey them intermittently to the processing stations. The plate or cleated chains are driven in a circulating manner and have chain beams that act in opposite directions to one another. The chain beams include longitudinal bearers and longitudinal guides on which strands of the plate or cleated chains are supported. In order to shorten the set-up time, the distance of the chain beams of the plate or cleated chains from one another is varied by a setting drive via setting members for the purpose of adapting to different thicknesses of book blocks. The thickness of a particular book block is automatically determined in the setting-up operation via a measuring arrangement in the intake. The thickness is communicated by a memory programmable control system directly to the setting drive as a reference value for the setting members for varying the distance between the chain beams.

Conveyor device for bookbinding machines

A book production line which has a plurality of processing stations and a transportation device for receiving the book blocks from an intake and conveying the book blocks to the processing stations is presented. The book production line includes individual modules with processing stations including functions such as straightening and pre-shaping, rounding and pressing, gluing and fumigating, gluing, backing and heading and suspending of book blocks. Optionally, a processing station may be provided for pressing and shaping the books and the individual modules can be separately operated via independent operating panels.

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Rahden, Germany

Christoph Schmücker

Growing community of inventors

Rahden, Germany

Christoph Schm&uuml;cker

Christoph Schmücker