摘要 |
An apparatus for making sheet material articles such as book covers comprises a conveyor belt (10) arranged to transport a sheet of covering material coated with an adhesive into the apparatus, and to halt when the sheet of covering material reaches a position where it is in face-to-face registration with boards to be covered. The boards are mounted to the underside of a frame (26) disposed above the surface of the conveyor, which frame (26) can be lowered to bring the boards into face-to-face contact with the sheet of covering material, thereby adhering the latter to the boards. The conveyor then reciprocates for brushes (33, 34) to fold opposite edges of the covering material onto the upper sides of the boards. Another apparatus for scoring/cutting sheet material articles comprises a conveyor belt arranged to advance the articles towards a tool moving transversally to the direction of movement of the conveyor. |