Composition book sewing line

LOCKSTITCH

The squared book block is fed into the PRESTAR : Front Cutting Unit.
Further, the book is carried to TapeMaster for Spine Taping of Binding Cloth Tape.
Tape in roll form, is glued and perfectly applied to the book spine.
The continuous tape is cut by an electronic cutter, to separate the books.
The delivered book does not need any manual touch or finishing.
The tape is maintained to be dry after application.

Feed Gathered papers or book-blocks(sections) manually into the Thread Center Sewing head. The thread is cut automatically at the end of each section.
Then the section is turned upside down over the Belts and fed into the FOLDmaster machine where it is folded in exact center and further forwarded to SQUARE for Edge Squaring, that shapes the book spine perfectly in 90 degrees even for 1000gsm, 320pages book.
The squared book block is fed into the PRESTAR : Front Cutting Unit.
Further, the book is carried to TapeMaster for Spine Taping of Binding Cloth Tape.
Tape in roll form, is glued and perfectly applied to the book spine.
The continuous tape is cut by an electronic cutter, to separate the books.
The delivered book does not need any manual touch or finishing.
The tape is maintained to be dry after application.
Then the book is fed into COPE for top/bottom trimming and separating. COPE is a programmable cutting machine that cuts the book with single knife while the book gets forwarded automatically. The cutting size for both cutting units can be set in the Touch Screen Panel. No need to shift knives individually, hence job changeover time for cutting unit is less than 1 minute.
Make ready time for the whole Line is 30-45 minutes for job changeover.
Any of these machines can be used offline as well as, can be turned on/off as needed.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATIONS	Max.	Min.
Speed	Upto 30 sections / minute
Book Length	1000mm	400mm
Book width	440mm	280mm
Book width	(Centre Sewing)(open book)
Book Thickness	8mm	10 Sheets
Thread Size	10	40
Needle Size	25	18
Thread Pitch	12 or 8mm
Tape Width	60mm	30mm
Duplex Cover	500 gsm	200 gsm
Power	11 hp(8.25 kw) 50Hz, 415V, AC
Power	Actual power consumption in operation : 6 kw
Dimensions	10.4m x 3.8m x 2m
Dimensions	(Length x Width x Height)(‘Z’ shaped)