Brackett Inc

Brackett, Inc designs, builds and distributes a wide range of bindery equipment for padding ( gluing ), chipboard inserting, stripping ( taping ), and paper jogging for printers, binderies and other converters.The company was founded in 1910 to manufacture a hand-fed automatic stripping machine invented by Edward Brackett. Currently, Brackett Inc continues to manufacture a variety of equipment for spine taping of tablets, books, glued pads, stitched business forms and bank checks.Brackett automated padding systems are in use world-wide, replacing manual padding methods. Brackett equipment also includes machines for making writing tablets, file folders and other specialty products. Recently developed accessory equipment inserts chipboard ( board stiffeners ) at pre-set intervals between sheets at the printing press delivery station.Other Brackett machines specialize in performing intermediate bookbinding operations, such as combining endpapers and backgluing.