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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 08, 1998
Hans Hollenstein, Guntershausen, CH;
Walter Meier-Germann, Frauenfeld, CH;
GRAPHA-Holding AG, Hergiswil, CH;
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for manufacturing books or brochures with a book block of printed sheets which are thread-stitched at the side of the fold, wherein the method includes successively and in a predetermined sequence supplying the printed sheets spread in the middle and with the side portions thereof directed downwardly to a stitching saddle which interacts with a stitching device arranged at a right angle relative to the fold of the printed sheets. The printed sheets are positioned on the stitching saddle in accordance with the stitching position and are subsequently transferred to the stitching device for sewing the printed sheets into book blocks. The method further includes aligning the trailing edge of a supplied printed sheet on the stitching saddle flush on the right hand side in accordance with one of the top edge and the bottom edge of a book block which has at least been partially sewed by the stitching machine.