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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 1997
Filed:
Feb. 10, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Roland Grunder, Vordemwald, CH;
Assignee:
Grapha-Holding AG, Hergiswil, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B42C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
11247504 ; 112 21 ; 11247507 ; 412 35 ;
Abstract
A method of manufacturing thread-stitched books and an arrangement for carrying out the method, the method including gathering individual folded printed sheets into sheet blocks in a gathering unit, and loading after each gathering cycle the sheet blocks onto a block receiving unit of a storage unit releasably connected to the gathering unit. Batches of the sheet blocks are supplied to at least one book sewing machine. Subsequently, the sheets are sewn together into book blocks in the at least one book sewing machine.