Bookbinding: process and apparatus – Process – Of applying a cover to a book
Patent
1992-05-14
1993-05-25
Bell, Paul A.
Bookbinding: process and apparatus
Process
Of applying a cover to a book
281 151, 283 631, 283 67, 283117, B42C 1900
Patent
active
052134610
ABSTRACT:
The disclosed method relates generally to the creation of books or documents and, more particularly, to a process for rapidly generating personalized books while a purchaser waits. In carrying out the method of the present invention, a series of steps is performed that includes loading a program having a predetermined story stored therein into a computer, entering personalized data into the computer to create a personalized story therefrom, feeding into a printing device a set of sheets having a first and second side, printing the personalized story on one of the sides of the sheets, separating the sheets transversely into pages, assembling the pages in a predetermined order and the fastening the assembled pages to a book jacket to form a personalized book. The sheets used in the disclosed method are preferably standard size, coated paper and have a partially preprinted design or illustration that partially covers the top side of each sheet, leaving blank areas for the story text, and fully covers the bottom side of the sheets.
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