Horizon International Inc.

Hiroto Otani

Shigeru Wakimoto

Kohei Okamoto

Shigenobu Fukuda

Takehito Yokogi

Kanta Kambara

Provided is a book block feed device capable of feeding a book block always in an aligned state to a bookbinding machine. The book block feed device comprises an alignment unit and a press unit that are adjacently arranged in order along a conveying path of the book block from an inlet to an outlet of the conveying path. The alignment unit comprises a vibrator that vibrates the book block. The press unit includes a press surface that forms a part of a conveying surface of the conveying path, and a press plate that sandwiches and presses the book block between the press plate and the press surface.

Book block feed device

A paper sheet S is intermittently transported by a transport mechanismand each processing unitoperates while the transport mechanism pauses the transport operation. An information acquisition unitobtains paper information from the paper sheet. A control unitstores the paper information of the paper sheet to be processed for each processing unit, updates the data of the memory in a manner such that the paper information of the paper sheet associated with the previous processing unit is associated with the next processing unit every time the transport mechanism transports, and configures the settings of each processing unit for the next processing operation based on the paper information every time the processing operation of the processing unit is completed.

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Takashima, Japan

Hiroto Otani