GRA 420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Feeder, The Sucker, Bookbinding
3 Feb 2016
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Collating: one of the biggest first run books was the da vinci code. There were 5 million first run books: the record for the longest first run edition for hard cover book was harry potter: deathly hollow. These signatures can be done in many ways: these folded signatures come together on palettes and stacked up in a pre-storage area. These palettes have to fed into the actual machines. So there is one feeder (pockets) for every signature. Some of these machines will come with 40 pockets to hold 40 different signatures. Each of the signatures goes into the pocket and they are separated, because they are all stacked up in the pocket, and deposited one at a time onto the raceway (the conveyer belt). The conveyer belt has little slots (pushers) that push against one edge of the signature (pushes it down the raceway).
