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Method for selectively binding pre-personalized inserts

  • US 5,419,541 A
  • Filed: 12/01/1993
  • Issued: 05/30/1995
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/01/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In a method for selectively binding pre-personalized inserts into books in a binding line, comprising the steps ofproviding off line a batch of pre-personalized inserts, each insert having an indicia thereon that differs from the indicia on all of the other inserts in the batch,providing a binding line equipped with a binding control system and production database of indicia, said batch of indicia-equipped inserts corresponding in sequence to the sequence in which those indicia occur in said database,providing means for sequentially feeding said pre-personalized inserts from said batch to said binding line,providing means operatively associated with said feeding means for inhibiting said feeding means, for diverting inserts from said feeding means, andoperating said binding line to form books while inserting a pre-personalized indicia-equipped insert into a book intended for that indicia.

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