| 摘要 |
An apparatus and method for successively delivering ring carrier elements to a paper loading station for producing bound booklets. The apparatus provides a carrier having ring elements adhesively attached thereto in spaced apart fashion, the carrier drawn to a ring loading station where individual elements are deposited onto a comb retainer whereat a ring spreader can open the rings for loading of paper thereon. The carrier can be fashioned as a fan-folded supply or can be a wound supply, having the elements adhesively attached thereto, or threaded thereon. |
