Xerox Corporation

John L Ferrante

J Stephen Kittelberger

Joseph R Weber

Leela Ganguly

Kathryn A Wallace

A microwave binder is used in conjunction with paper tape which is coated with one or more formulations of encapsulated, fast setting, water soluble adhesives to bind pages of a book. The tape spine adhesive is of sufficient thickness to allow it to penetrate into the edges of the pages of the bound edge. The microwave heating causes the capsules to rupture, releasing the adhesives to flow into the bound edge of the book.

Microwave bookbinder tape

Bookbinding system employing microwave heating

A method and apparatus for determining the level of roughness in a paper or other substrate to be processed in a machine, and for correspondingly adjusting the machine parameters that are affected by the different levels of substrate roughness, before the substrate is processed through the machine.

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Williamson, NY, United States of America

John L Ferrante