| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| RE29105 |
Apparatus for making books |
January 11, 1977 |
| An improved apparatus for making books and other sheet material articles includes a main conveyor for transporting groups of signatures to a covering station. A cover conveyor transports covers to the covering station where they are sequentially applied to the groups of signatures in |
| 4260145 |
Signature handling apparatus |
April 7, 1981 |
| The disclosed signature handling apparatus is for use with a saddle conveyor which moves signatures with a folded edge up along a path through a series of stations. The apparatus transfers signatures from the saddle conveyor to the infeed conveyor of a signature trimmer in a smooth motio |
| 4250988 |
Mechanism for transferring books and the like |
February 17, 1981 |
| A mechanism for transferring books or the like between work stations comprises a conveyor chain. A raceway is located along the conveyor chain and supports books thereon. A plurality of pushing devices project from the conveyor chain. Each of the pushing devices has a surface spaced abov |
| 4078784 |
Signature opening apparatus |
March 14, 1978 |
| An improved signature handling apparatus includes a movable gripper jaw which operates in conjunction with similar gripper mechanisms to clamp and spread the signature so that the laps fall on opposite sides of the saddle in a saddle gatherer. In order to assure that the pages on the opp |
| 4066162 |
Orbital turn |
January 3, 1978 |
| A mechanism for transferring a book having a bound edge from one linear conveyor to another linear conveyor where the directions of movement of the conveyor intersect at an angle and where the article undergoes rotation during such transfer whereby the bound edge is reorientated so as |
| 4031793 |
Band knife tooth shape |
June 28, 1977 |
| A cutting blade for use in paper trimming machines and the like. A beveled surface is included which tapers the first side of the blade toward a second side so as to form an acute angle at the intersection of the second side and the beveled surface. The blade is regularly scalloped along |
