The invention relates to a case maker comprising a cardboard feed, a blank feed, a glue applicator, the joining device, a turn-in device, a delivery unit and a control unit, with a spreading device of the cardboard feed being arranged downstream of a first cardboard cutting mechanism in the product flow in order to position the cardboard blanks produced from a common cardboard sheet by means of the first cardboard cutting mechanism spaced apart from one another.

A device for manufacturing a book on demand, including a cover printing or receiving station designed to respectively print or receive a cover, a body printing or receiving station designed to respectively print or receive a body, a binding station designed to join together the body and the cover, a conveyor designed and/or programmed to convey the cover and/or the body between the different stations, the device is designed to deposit glue in a gluing region on the verso of the cover inside the binding station before the cover and the body are joined together by gluing, forming a book.

The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for manufacturing embossed laminated hardcover book cases and embossed laminated hardcover books. The method of manufacturing an embossed laminated hardcover book case may comprise: receiving a book printing request from a user; printing a desired cover design on a cover sheet based at least in part on the received book printing request; applying a laminate sheet to the cover sheet using a laminating apparatus; embossing the laminate sheet using a textured roller of the laminating apparatus to define an embossed laminated cover sheet; providing a spine board and front and rear cover boards based at least in part on the received book printing request; and combining the spine board, the front and rear cover boards, and the embossed laminated cover sheet to define the embossed hardcover book case. Adding a book block converts the case into an embossed laminated hardcover book.

The invention relates to a device for producing book cases, box lids or game boards with a cutting mechanism, which is arranged in the region of the blank feed and serves for cutting off the blank corners, wherein each tool pair of cutting cylinder and counterpressure cylinder is accommodated in a common bearing block and the bearing arrangement of the cutting cylinder has two mutually spaced eccentric bushes and a drive element arranged between the eccentric bushes.

The invention relates to a device for producing book cases, box lids or game boards with a cutting mechanism, which is arranged in the region of the blank feed and serves for cutting off the blank corners, wherein each tool pair of cutting cylinder and counterpressure cylinder is accommodated in a common bearing block and the bearing arrangement of the cutting cylinder has two mutually spaced eccentric bushes and a drive element arranged between the eccentric bushes.

The invention relates to a device for producing book cases, box lids or game boards with a cutting mechanism, which is arranged in the region of the blank feed and serves for cutting off the blank corners, wherein each tool pair of cutting cylinder and counterpressure cylinder is accommodated in a common bearing block and the bearing arrangement of the cutting cylinder has two mutually spaced eccentric bushes and a drive element arranged between the eccentric bushes.

The invention relates to a device for producing book cases, box lids or game boards with a cutting mechanism, which is arranged in the region of the blank feed and serves for cutting off the blank corners, wherein each tool pair of cutting cylinder and counterpressure cylinder is accommodated in a common bearing block and the bearing arrangement of the cutting cylinder has two mutually spaced eccentric bushes and a drive element arranged between the eccentric bushes.

A device for alignment of a book block consisting of single sheets and/or signatures is useable in a processing machine, in which manufacturing of books or printed products is carried out. The device is arranged upstream of a first processing station within the processing machine. The book block is feedable directly or indirectly into the device automatically or by hand. An alignment station has a base plate with a substantially vertically extending stop surface at an end thereof. The base plate has a movable part configured to carry out a movement with respect to the stop surface such that the movement of the movable part, in an operative connection to the stop surface, brings about an alignment of the single sheets and/or signatures at a book block edge, and such that, following alignment, the book block is grippable by at least one transport clamp for processing.

A creasing device includes a frame with a substantially horizontal support surface for supporting an article to be creased; a movable tool; and a stationary tool, the latter comprising a stationary member and at least one displaceable member whose height relative to the stationary member can be adjusted. A first actuator moves the movable tool toward the stationary tool and interacts with opposite faces of the article, and a second actuator translates the displaceable member between a first end position in which interacts with the movable tool and a second end position in which it cannot interact with the movable tool. Guide means associated with the stationary tool guides the displaceable member between the first end position and the second end position. The guide means are have a curvilinear path contained in a plane substantially perpendicular to the support surface.

The invention concerns an automated method for manufacturing printed publications, for the flexible production, on demand, of a single publication or small series of publications. To this end, an automated method is proposed for the production of printed publications, each consisting of a content block (425) and a cover (426), according to which: the feasibilities of manufacturing the content blocks (425) of the publications are determined (414), an order of priority is established for the manufacture of the publications, the covers (426) to be assembled with the content blocks are manufactured, the manufacture of the content blocks (425) is ordered according to descending order of priority subject to feasibility, which takes precedence over manufacturing priority, and the content blocks (425) are assembled with the corresponding covers (426).