Bookbinding and its auxiliary branches . illustration. Two books, one on each side, of more thanthe ordinary number of pages, can be gathered on thistable, which will appeal to any bindery which is crampedfor room. The books when gathered are piled on a platform,and, if a four-point rule has been printed in the backmarginal fold step fashion, the collating is done at aglance, and the books are ready for sewing. Another method is the large round table driven bypower. The signatures are laid on top, and the gatherertakes a seat so that the signatures can be easily picked upone at a time. A numbe
Bookbinding and its auxiliary branches . illustration. Two books, one on each side, of more thanthe ordinary number of pages, can be gathered on thistable, which will appeal to any bindery which is crampedfor room. The books when gathered are piled on a platform,and, if a four-point rule has been printed in the backmarginal fold step fashion, the collating is done at aglance, and the books are ready for sewing. Another method is the large round table driven bypower. The signatures are laid on top, and the gatherertakes a seat so that the signatures can be easily picked upone at a time. A number of gatherers can be seatedaround the table and an extra person employed to takeaway the gathered signatures to the collators. The speed 42 BOOKBINDING. BOOKBINDING 43 can be regulated to suit the requirements of the paper andoperator. The objection to this is that inexperiencedgatherers become dizzy, due to the speed of the table andthe constant gaze on the sheets. Gathering Machine.— These machines can be builtwith any number of boxes of any size. It requires threeoperators to run a machine with four boxes, one to placethe signatures in the boxes, one to remove the imperfect
Size: 1362px × 1836px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectbookbinding, bookyear
