Abstract:
Systems and methods of dispensing adhesive in a bookbinding system (10) are described. Sheets (54) may be bound into bound text bodies having respective spines (34) exposed for adhesive application and characterized by multiple length dimensions (40) and multiple thickness dimensions (44). In one aspect, a sheet binding system comprises an adhesive dispenser (80) that is configured to dispense across the thickness dimension (44) of a text body spine (34) solid sheet adhesive (86, 126) having one of multiple effective widths that is sized to correspond substantially to the length dimension (40) of the text body spine (34). In accordance with this approach, books of different lengths or heights (40) may be readily bound with solid sheet adhesive (86, 126) that may be contained within a single, replaceable cartridge housing (82, 122).
Abstract:
Systems and methods of binding sheets (54, 80) by activating a microencapsulated binding agent are described. Each sheet (54, 80) to be bound has an exposed binding surface region near a spine edge (74). A frontside adhesive system (70, 86) is disposed over the frontside binding surface region and comprises a binding agent that is encapsulated in a plurality of microcapsules. The adhesive system (70, 86) is non-tacky to enable the sheets (54, 80) to be stacked and individually processed until the binding agent is released from the microcapsules.
Abstract:
Systems and methods of dispensing adhesive in a bookbinding system (10) are described. Sheets (54) may be bound into bound text bodies having respective spines (34) exposed for adhesive application and characterized by multiple length dimensions (40) and multiple thickness dimensions (44). In one aspect, a sheet binding system comprises an adhesive dispenser (80) that is configured to dispense across the thickness dimension (44) of a text body spine (34) solid sheet adhesive (86, 126) having one of multiple effective widths that is sized to correspond substantially to the length dimension (40) of the text body spine (34). In accordance with this approach, books of different lengths "or heights" (40) may be readily bound with solid sheet adhesive (86, 126) that may be contained within a single, replaceable cartridge housing (82, 122).
Abstract:
Systems and methods of managing consumables used in a bookbinding system are described. In one aspect, a bookbinding consumables quantity interrogator is configured to obtain information relating to usage of one or more consumables in a bookbinding system, and a processor is configured to compute usage statistics for the one or more bookbinding consumables based upon usage information obtained by the bookbinding consumables quantity interrogator.