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US3794550A
US3794550A US00283676A US3794550DA US3794550A US 3794550 A US3794550 A US 3794550A US 00283676 A US00283676 A US 00283676A US 3794550D A US3794550D A US 3794550DA US 3794550 A US3794550 A US 3794550A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
    • B42C—BOOKBINDING
    • B42C9/00—Applying glue or adhesive peculiar to bookbinding
    • B42C9/0081—Applying glue or adhesive peculiar to bookbinding applying adhesive to individual sheets for binding them together
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
    • B42C—BOOKBINDING
    • B42C9/00—Applying glue or adhesive peculiar to bookbinding
    • B42C9/0093—Applying glue or adhesive peculiar to bookbinding by fusing, welding sheets together
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03G—ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY
    • G03G15/00—Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern
    • G03G15/65—Apparatus which relate to the handling of copy material
    • G03G15/6538—Devices for collating sheet copy material, e.g. sorters, control, copies in staples form
    • G03G15/6541—Binding sets of sheets, e.g. by stapling, glueing
    • G03G15/6544—Details about the binding means or procedure
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S412/00—Bookbinding: process and apparatus
    • Y10S412/90—Activating previously applied adhesive
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
    • Y10T156/1702—For plural parts or plural areas of single part
    • Y10T156/1712—Indefinite or running length work
    • Y10T156/1737—Discontinuous, spaced area, and/or patterned pressing

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  • the present invention relates to a very simple and economical method of binding two or more indicia bearing sheets together by providing on the sheets additional minor high density areas of the same indicia imparting material in areas of desired binding, where the sheets are subsequently stacked and the additional indicia imparting material commonly fused between adjacent sheets at the binding areas to fasten the sheets together.
  • Sheet binding is one of the oldest known arts, and numerous methods and apparatus are known in the art for permanently or temporarily securing sheets together. Many of these, of course, are only economically suited for high priced or high volume commercial printing operations. There is a long standing need for improved sheet fastening means for localized, simple, and inexpensive binding of, for example, stacks of two to fifty pages.
  • Fusible xerographic toners have been found to be particularly suitable.
  • fusible as used herein in connection with the indicia imparting material, such as xerographic toner
  • fusible is meant a material which in its normal ambient state is non-adhesive (nontacky), but is rendered sufliciently tacky for sheet adherence temporarily by heat or solvent vapors or pressure or some combination thereof.
  • the desired toner material here is one that is refusible, i.e.
  • fusible and refusible xerographic toner compositions are disclosed in U.S. Pats. Nos. 3,609,082; 3,577,345; 3,590,000 and Re. 25,136.
  • Suitable refusible xerographic toners are commercially available world-wide from the Xerox Corporation and its subsidiaries, and are already present in their existing xerographic copying and duplicating machines.
  • the method and article of sheet binding disclosed herein overcomes the structural disadvantages of metal rivets and other penetrating bindings discussed above. It provides strong and sheet tear-resistant bindings having a larger binding area.
  • the method of the invention enables the use of existing ink or toner supply, dispensing and sheet applicating apparatus already available in the printing appara tus, and without requiring any modifications or additional processing in the printing operations.
  • the only additional step required for the present process is a simple and noncritical refusing operation which can be preformed at any time in conjunction with, or subsequent to, the indicia printing operation, and in any location. This refusing may be accomplished by various inexpensive and simple or commercially available apparatus. For example, the stack to be bound may be simply clamped at the binding area between a pair of heated pressure platens.
  • the present process is particularly suitable for local sheet binding in ofiices or other existing xerographic machine locations.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a document of bound sheets in accordance with the present invention
  • FIG. 2 is a magnified cross-sectional partial view of the binding area taken along the line 2-2 of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a transparent overlay with an optical mask, retaining an original as shown, for producing binding areas in xerographic copies of the original in accordance with the present inyention;
  • FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional simplified plan view of an otherwise conventional xerographic machine showing severl modifications which can be provided thereon for producing the process of the invention
  • FIG. 5 is an enlarged top view of an optical mask which may be utilized in the apparatus of FIG. 4;
  • FIG. 6 is a perspective view of an exemplary refusing apparatus for the process of the invention, shown with an exemplary stack of sheets inserted therein;
  • FIG. 7 is a simplified top view of the principal operating components within the apparatus of FIG. 6.
  • FIGS. 3-7 there is shown in FIGS. 3-7 some examples of apparatus for performing the sheet binding processes of the invention. It will be appreciated that various steps of the process can also be performed manually or by other apparatus, including that disclosed in the previously cited references.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 show one example of a completed article of manufacture in accordance with the present invention. Specifically there is shown a securely edge bound stack 10 of individual paper sheets 12. The sheets 12 are bound only at a binding area 14. This binding area 14 extends in a stripe along, or closely adjacent to, the entire left hand edge of all of the sheets 12 in the stack 10. This stripe is wider than approximately 5 millimeters.
  • the binding areas are preferably located at the same position on each of the sheets 12, so that with the sheets 12 aligned overlying one another, the binding areas 14 are also so aligned.
  • Each binding areas 14 is substantially continuously covered and occupied by a corresponding high density area 16 of fusible xerographic toner 18.
  • each sheet 12 has at least one such high density areas 16.
  • the toner 18 of this high density area 16 is the same toner 18 as provides the indicia 20 on the sheets 12, and it is preferably provided in the same step and at the same time as the imaging of the indica 20.
  • the inter-sheet binding consists solely of the high density areas 16 of toner 18 being commonly fused between immediately adjacent sheets 12 at the binding area 14. It may be seen that the toner 18, which was initially prefused into the binding areas of the individual sheet 12, is additionally refused into the sheet immediately above or below it, The n r is refused into all of the sheet surfaces in the case of conventional porous paper, as shown, to form a strong interlocking bond.
  • the strength of the inter-sheet bond is a function of the area, density, and degree of fusing of the xerographic toner between adjacent sheets. By increasing these parameters the inter-sheet bond can be made substantially stronger than the tear resistance of the sheet material itself. Correspondingly however, by reducing one or more of these parameters in the binding process there can be provided an inter-sheet bond which is sufficient to normally retain the sheets together, but yet which allows removal of individual sheets without sheet tearing, i.e., a pad type of binding can be provided wherein one or more sheets can be pulled off the stack neatly, with the separation occurring at the respective inter-sheet toner bond.
  • the stack 10 may be additionally bound by conventional staples, rivets or other mechanical fastening means, as shown by exemplary staple 22 in FIG. 1. If done in the binding areas, this provides a binding which is far stronger than such conventional mechanical binding means can provide in themselves. This is because when such mechanical fasteners penetrate the sheets in the stack only within the fused binding areas, they are not limited by their normal stress concentrations and small area sheet strength limitations. The stack area around the area of fastener penetration is bonded together and reinforced by the refused toner and strongly resists sheet tearing as a unit. These advantages similarly apply if apertures through the sheets are desired at the binding areas for ring binding or the like. It will be appreciated that combinations with mechanical fastenings means are not required and that the present process can provide suflicient binding strength to be the sole binding means for permanent binding.
  • the binding area 14 of FIGS. 1 and 2 is a contiguous single edge binding area. However, it will be appreciated that the binding area may be in only one corner of the sheets, for example, or there may be several separate binding areasrather than a single one.
  • FIG. 4 there is shown therein by way of example, one type of conventional xerographic apparatus.
  • the process of the invention may be performed thereon utilizing this apparatus in its conventional mode of operation.
  • an indicia bearing original 23 here is conventionally optically imaged onto a charged photoreceptor surface 26 to form an electrostatic image of said indicia thereon.
  • This electrostatic indicia image is conventionally developed by attracting an electrostatica'lly attractable and fusible xerographic toner 18 to said electrostatic image which attracted toner 18 is then fused onto the desired copy sheets 12.
  • the charged photoreceptor is integral the copy sheet.
  • the fusing of all of the toner 18 onto the copy sheet is accomplished by a conventional fusing operation 30 in the xerographic apparatus.
  • the completed image copy sheets 12 are then deposited at the output in a catch tray 32 or other suitable sheet receptor which provides assembly of the copy sheets in an overlying stacked uniform relationship.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates an optical mask 34 which functions as an overlay to the indicia bearing original during imaging in the apparatus of FIG. 4, or other xerographic apparatus.
  • the optical mask 34 is here provided by an opaque area 36 on an otherwise fully transparent clear plastic jacket 38, into which the original 24 is simply inserted.
  • the opaque area 36' corresponds in proportion, size, location and area to the desired binding area 14 on the copy sheet. (With a one-t -one reduction it will be identical.)
  • the opaque area 36 is located on the side of the jacket 38 which is between the original and the photoreceptor, i.e., in the optical path therebetween.
  • This additional image is in addition to the electrostatic indicia image, and is formed at the same time and by the same ap paratus.
  • the high density area 16 of toner is attracted to the additional minor image area and additionally imparted to the copy sheet at the binding area 14.
  • This additional toner area is fused along with the indicia in the conventional fusing operation 30.
  • the optical mask 34 is preferably dimensioned so as to provide a high density area 16 of toner on the copy sheet of the dimensions previously discussed.
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 illustrate a different type of optical masking operation to achieve the same result of forming the high density area 16 of toner at the binding area 14.
  • This optical mask 40 is shown in an enlarged top view in FIG. 5, and in position in a side view in FIG. 4.
  • the exemplary mask 40 is a plate reciprocally movable in and out of the optical path between the original 24 and the photoreceptor at one edge thereof. When so inserted, it functions in the same manner as described above for the optical mask 34. It may be inserted manually or by an automatic apparatus such as the electrical solenoid 42 shown.
  • both the optical masks 34 and 40 are preferably finely optically apertured. That is, they are preferably made up of a multiplicity of small opaque areas separated by small transparent spaces in between.
  • the optical mask is preferably made up of a multiplicity of closely spaced opaque lines. Preferably these lines are approximately .05 to 5 millimeters (.002 to V8 inch) wide and are spaced apart by approximately .05 millimeter (.002 to .003 inch or slightly greater), whereas as previously discussed, the entire band is preferably wider than approximately 5 millimeters inch).
  • An alternative method by which the desired optical mask may be provided in the path between the original and the photoreceptor is to simply preprint a dark area on the original.
  • the copy sheets themselves may be preprinted with sufficient toner in the desired binding areas.
  • FIG. 4 Another way of forming the additional electrostatic image needed to provide the high density toner binding area or areas is further illustrated in the apparatus of FIG. 4.
  • An exemplary additional corotron 44 or. other suitable charging apparatus is shown adjacent the photoreceptor in the path of the photoreceptor after its initial charge has been received.
  • an additional electrostatic image may be formed electrically (non-optically) by electrically changing the charge on the selected minor additional area of the charged photoreceptor.
  • This method requires more apparatus than the simple optical masks described above. However, this apparatus is well known and available in the art.
  • the sheets are assembled together in a directly overlying relationship in a position in which they are to be bound. It is not essential that all of the binding areas directly overlie one another although this is preferable.
  • an exemplary pair of pressure platens or dies 46 and 48 located at the lower end of the catch tray where one edge of the sheets commonly abuts a stack stop. They comprise here one fixed heated platen 46 and one movable heated platen 48, located respectively at opposite sides of the stack 10.
  • the platens 46 and 48 provide refusing for binding between adjacent sheets by heating the stack at the binding area 14 sufiicient to render the high toner density area 16 on the sheets (only at the binding areas) sufficiently tacky to adhere between adjacent sheets, while simultaneously pressing the binding areas 14 together under pressure between the platens 46 and 48.
  • the platen 48 is moved with pressure down against the top on the stack. This pressure is suificient to remove air spaces between the sheets at the binding areas, and to provide good inter-sheet toner transfer, including improving the flow of toner from its carrier sheet into the adjacent sheet surface.
  • the heating is continued until the toner on at least one sheet is softened sufiiciently to adhere to the next adjacent sheet for each of the number of sheets being bound.
  • the stack 10 is further held between the dies for a time period after the heating is terminated sufiiciently to allow the toner to substantially re-solidify by cooling.
  • the platens 46 and 48 are shown here with schematic representations of conventional electrical heating coils in the platen surfaces to provide the refusing heat. However, it will be appreciated that numerous other fusing means and processes may be utilized including those described in the above-cited references.
  • the refusing process may be repeated for each individual sheet to be bound.
  • One way this may be accomplished is for the binding area of the uppermost sheet in the stack to be radiant heated to maintain the toner therein sufficiently adhesive, the next sheet for the stack to be individually placed on the stack with a binding area contacting the stack, and this single additional sheet to be bound to the stack by downward movement of the platen in synchronism with the addition of the sheet.
  • individual sheets may be added and bound to the stack one at a time by rendering or maintaining the toner area on the added sheet sufficiently tacky during the time that it is added to the stack and clamped by the platen thereon.
  • a thermal shield 50 extending from the fusing operation 30 down over the catch tray 32 is illustrated here by way of an example for effecting the latter step by maintaining the toner area 16 warm and tacky from the original fusing operation 30 for the brief time needed to place it over the stack and press it down thereon.
  • FIGS. 6 and 7 illustrate the exterior and interior details respectively of a further exemplary apparatus 52 for performing the final refusing step for binding described above.
  • the apparatus 52 is designed to accept the stack 10 of sheets 12 vertically downwardly therein and to align the lower edges thereof for binding as a single bound stack.
  • this may be accomplished by a relatively simple apparatus 52 comprising a stationary platen 54 operated against by an opposing moving platen 56.
  • the moving platen 56 is driven under pressure to compress together the binding areas 14 of the stack by a rotatably driven cam 58.
  • the cam 58 causes a cam follower 59 to reciprocate, and it in turn moves the moving platen 56 through coil compression springs 60.
  • the springs 60 restrict the amount of force which can be applied to the moving platen 56, and thereby prevent jamming of the machine. However, an increased thickness of the stack 10 will cause greater compression of the springs 60 and therefore a desired greater compression force to be applied to the stack. Electrical heating elements as shown may also be provided here to heat the platens. Additional heating means can also be provided in the bottom surface against which the stack abuts.
  • the above described apparatus 52 is for the purpose of providing the application of both heat and pressure for stack binding. It will be appreciated that depending on the type of xerographic toner selected, that pressure alone may be sufficient, or that vapor or other known fusing methods may be provided. It will also be appreciated that numerous other apparatus may be utilized, such as pressure dies in the form of continuous rollers, etc. Further, pressure can be, but need not necessarily be, applied before, while, or after the toner is heated.
  • any type of original image indicia may be utilized with the present process, Whether hard copy, microfilm, microfiche, graphic, or alpha numeric, since the binding process does not interfere in any way with the normal indicia imaging or printing except at the selected binding areas.
  • almost any copy paper may be utilized.
  • the present process may be utilized to provide bound demand-printed paper copies of microfilm reports, texts or the like. It is especially suitable for direct on-line binding of pre-collated output sets from high speed machines.
  • the additional image area for toner binding can be provided by additional light sources imaged through apertures corresponding to the above-described masks.
  • the above-described method utilizing the corotron 44 or the like can also be used.
  • either one or both of the immediately adjacent (overlying) binding areas may have the prefused toner binder areas thereon. If both adjacent surfaces have high density toner areas 16, this will give an even stronger bond since more binding toner 18 is available in the intersheet space, and also since deeper toner penetration of both sheets may have been provided in the original fusing in this manner.
  • binding areas at both sheet edges may be particularly desirable in the case of duplex or pseudoduplex copying where the desired binding areas may be at alternating sides of the respective sheets.
  • pseudoduplex output format where two sheet folds or material are bound together at every other fold line to provide the individual duplex pages, it may be desirable to place the binding areas on both sides of both edges of each sheet.
  • stacks 10 can be simultaneously bound by a modification of the process herein.
  • a large common assemblage of all the sheets for several stacks can be formed, interspersed with one or more sheets having no adjacent inter-sheet binding areas thereon. These interspersed sheets are located between the desired individual bound stacks.
  • the entire assemblage can then be subjected to the toner refusing step.
  • the interspering sheets will prevent inter-sheet binding to themselves, but not interfere with the binding together of all of the other sheets with toner binding areas.
  • several bound stacks can be simultaneously produced without adhering to one another.
  • these interspersed non-binding sheets can be provided by the last sheet of one stack and the first sheet of the next stack having no binding areas on their outward facing surfaces, which is also desirable esthetically.
  • This elimination of binding areas on selected sheet surfaces can be provided automatically, for example, by programmed actuation of the solenoid 42 to remove the imaging light mask 40 for preselected sheets.
  • sheet as used in the specification and claims herein is defined (conventionally) as including both individual cut sheets and also sheet segments of continuous web or fan fold or accordian fold paper or the like, whether burst or unburst.
  • the subject method is applicable to those machines in which the paper is roll fed and is cut or folded into its individual sheets only after the toner has been applied and first fused into the binding areas.
  • a method of binding two or more indicia bearing sheets together comprising the steps of applying fusible indicia imparting material to said sheets for indicia purposes;
  • said selected binding area is a small area at an edge of each of said sheets having substantially the same relative location and area on each sheet.
  • the article of manufacture comprising:
  • said binding consisting solely of said high density areas of xerographic toner being commonly fused between immediately adjacent sheets at said binding area.
  • optical mask is provided by pre-printing an area on the original corresponding to the desired binding area on the copy sheets.
  • said re-fusing comprises heating said sheets at said binding areas until the toner on at least one sheet has softened sufiiciently to adhere to the next adjacent sheet, and pressing said binding areas of said sheets together under pressure between a pair of dies, said pressure being sufiicient to remove air spaces between said sheets at said binding areas.
  • top and bottom sheets of said stack have said high density areas of toner applied only to the sides thereof facing said stack.

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