US Patent Issued to MECCANOTECNICA on Dec. 2 for "Method and apparatus for sewing book blocks without blind stitch by means of hooks" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,692, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to MECCANOTECNICA S.P.A. (Gazzaniga, Italy).

"Method and apparatus for sewing book blocks without blind stitch by means of hooks" was invented by Paolo Martini (Torre Boldone, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment is proposed for sewing book blocks. A related embodiment comprises, for each book block, forming one or more stitchings with corresponding threads ending with corresponding free loops on a last signature of the book block. The threads are brought in line with corresponding free loops and thus through them along an advancement line of the signatures. The threads are moved away ...