METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSEMBLING LAMINATED PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM COVERS

摘要

An apparatus for assembling laminated book covers (12) including a programmable industrial robot (180) having jointed arms (112) supporting a pickup tool (188), a motor engaged with the joined arm, a cover piece assembly station (52) conveys a cover piece (36) along a path to a cover piece supply station (56), a backing board feeder for feeding backing boards (38) at a backing board feed station (72), a press (78) defining a curing station for curing a layer of adhesive applied to the cover piece (36) to bond the cover piece to the backing boards (38), and a magazine for receiving finished laminated book covers. The apparatus promotes the fast and efficient assembly of laminated covers without operator errors which often result when repetitive tasks are performed by hand.