Bookbinding machine with stop of transport elements at a processing station while transport elements are disengaged at other processing stations

Abstract

A bookbinding machine () is proposed. The bookbinding machine () comprises a driving system () for driving transport elements (-) of book blocks (-) in succession across at least one engagement processing station() and one or more disengagement processing stations () which process the book blocks while stationary therein. Control means () stop the driving system () when each of the transport elements () is at the engagement processing station () engaged with the driving system () and other transport elements () are at the disengagement processing stations () disengaged from the driving system (). A bookbinding plant comprising one or more of these bookbinding machines () is also proposed. Moreover, a corresponding method for operating a bookbinding machine (), a computer program and a computer program product for implementing the method are proposed.