Machinery

84.40 - Book-binding machinery, including book-sewing machines. 8440.10 8440.90 - Machinery - Parts This heading covers machines used in the manufacture of books (including booklets, brochures, periodicals, writing-books and the like). The heading includes : (1) Leaf-folding machines for book-binding. These fold large sheets of paper a number of times to ive a size suitable for pages. They remain here even if they can also be used for other fol&ng operatons. (2) Stapling machines and wire-stitchin machines, including those also usable in the manufacture of cardboard boxes or the li e. (3) Gathering and stitching machines. In these the sheets are laid by hand on a conveyor-chain, gathered in sections, headed up and then delivered to the stitching head. (4) Rolling or hammering machines. These press the folded leaves of unbound volumes before sewing. (5) Machines used to b' grecquer " the backs of unsewn books, i.e., to make shallow cuts in the back of the volume for receiving the cross threads. (6) Book-sewing machines, including both simple types for sewing only, and very complicated machines which consist of a feeder to place the folded sheets into the machine, a sewing device e ui ped to sew the sheets together and usually to place a textile reinforcement over e ack. A{ (7) Machines for flattening or rounding the backs before covering. (8) Machines for gluing strips of paper or textile on to loose ages which are to be incorporated into a book, or on to maps to be assembled into a ases, in order to make binding practicable. (9) Machines for gluing paper covers on to cheap books, brochures, etc. (10) Machines for the manufacture of book covers. These usually include feeders to bring in the necessary sheets of pa er, cardboard, book cloth, etc., a gluing device and a press, and P also sometimes provision or heating and drying. (I 1) Machines for flattening the finished book covers. These consist of a roller system and tables. (12) Machines for fixin the stitched volumes of books, etc., into the covers b gluing and & k : ~ ~ S o r n emac ines are equipped with a device to insert loose pictures, esigns, maps i (13) Machines for gilding or colouring the edges of books. i (14) Machines for stamping or gilding letters or designs on book covers and sometimes also on other goods p.g., leather goods), but excludin general purpose presses (heading 84.79) an nnting presses using interchangea le characters assembled in blocks (heading 84.4331 % (15) Page numbering machines (e.g.,for registers and ledgers). (16) Machines for assembling pages more or less permanently by means of metal or plastic spirals (or rin s) passing throu h perforations in the pages. They normally consist of a perforating app iance and a spiraltng device. PARTS Sub'ect to the general provisions regarding the classification of parts (see the General Exp anatory Note to Section XVI), parts of the machines of this heading are also classified here. The heading excludes : (a) Tables, usually of wood, with a screw device for holding the cross threads, used in the hand sewing of books (heading 44.21). (b) Knives for cutting machines (heading 82.08). (c) Machines for folding paper or cardboard (other than pa~e-foldingfor books); machines for cutting or grooving paper or cardboard; machines for trimmlng bound or stitched books, periodicals, brochures, etc.; machines for trimming edges and comers of books or for makin thumb-indexing insets; machines for stacking sheets of paper; stapling machines suitable only or cardboard box manufacture (heading 84.41). B (d) Margin setting, folding or page signature marking machines for use with printing machines (heading 84.43). (e) Textile cutting machines (heading 84.51). ( f ) Needles for sewing machines (heading 84.52). (g) Machines for working leather used in book-binding (heading 84.53). (h) Stapling machines of a kind used in offices to fix documents together (heading 84.72).