Abstract:
A precrush tool immediately precedes a slotting blade in a slotting tool assembly. The slotting blade is mounted in the same way as a conventional slotting blade with the exception that the top is profiled to give gradual crushing during rotation. The tool's area gets successively larger to the point that the top land equals the width of the slotter blade and its O.D. when mounted is effectively the pitch circle of the tool assembly. This design allows for the air to be removed from the board gradually and produces a sharp clean cut by the slotter.
Abstract:
An adjustable mounting block assembly, particularly for embossing die elements used with cutting, scoring and/or punching dies, having a block adjustably mounted within a frame. The perimeter of the block is spaced from the frame, and adjustable opposed spacers extend between the block and the frame so as to adjust the position of the block within the frame.
Abstract:
Apparatus for imprinting or impressing a sheet of material such as cardboard intended to be made into a die for making a folding box or case, comprises a stamping plate for carrying the sheet and co-operable with a tool. The stamping plate lies on a table plate of a frame structure which has holders for releasably carrying a form which extends parallel to the table plate, and at least one bridge assembly which extends movably above the table plate. A carriage is carried on the bridge assembly and moves transversely with respect to the direction of travel thereof. The carriage carries at least one vertically movable pressure member directed towards the table plate.
Abstract:
Improved slotter wheel apparatus (20) for use in the formation of box blanks is provided which includes a rotatable wheel (22) supporting a shiftable blade holder (24) and a slotting blade (26), with cooperating cam track (174) and follower (86) structure for selective shifting of blade (26) between an extended slotting position and a retracted blank-clearing position. An activation/deactivation assembly (30) allows the operator to separate cam track (174) from follower (88), thereby permitting use of apparatus (20) as a conventional, high speed, fixed blade slotter. A shock absorbing assembly (27) including a bridge piece (138) operably coupled with blade holder (24) and resilient pads (152, 154) serve to absorb potentially destructive mechanical loads experienced during outward shifting of the blade holder (24) and blade (26).
Abstract:
Multiple-station article processing apparatus (10) is provided which includes an adjustable processing station (14), a drive train (20), and a selectively operable drive train brake assembly (22) operable during adjustment of station (14). The preferred apparatus (10) is designed for fabrication of box blanks, and to this end includes an infeed assembly (12) for sequentially feeding paperboard sheets into the downstream scoring/slotting station where the sheets are scored and slotted to yield finished box blanks. During makeready adjustments when the position of the knives (66, 68) of the station (14) are changed, the braking assembly (22) is actuated to prevent unintended rotation of the drive train (20), which can result in changing the properly timed relationship of the stations within apparatus (10). The braking assembly (22) preferably includes a drum (80) secured to line shaft (74) of drive train (20), with a pair of pivotally mounted brake arms (88, 90) adjacent the drum (80); a piston and cylinder assembly (98) interconnects the outer ends of the arms (88, 90), and is actuated to move the arms (88, 90) into braking engagement with drum (80) during makeready adjustments.
Abstract:
An improved slotter wheel mechanism (30) designed for use in the formation of box blanks is provided which includes a rotatable wheel assembly (32) supporting one or more slotter blades (34); the blades (34) are coupled to the wheel by means (36) permitting shifting of the blades (34) during rotation of the wheel assembly (32) between an extended slotting position and a retracted blank-clearing position. In one embodiment, a slotter wheel (222) is equipped with a plurality of spiders (232) operatively secured to corresponding blade holders (246). As the wheel (222) rotates, the spiders (232) encounter strategically located members (294, 294a, 296 and 296a) serving to successively rotate the spiders (232), thus moving the blade holders (246) and blades (256).
Abstract:
A knife assembly for punching slots on cardboard sheets to allow the subsequent forming of boxes and containers. The knife assembly is substantially a flat arc section with an outer and an inner edge. The outer edge is substantially flat to permit sharp punched edges of the slot. The arc section has two ends and adjacent to one of the ends there is a sharpened section intended to produce a slit termination on the slots punched. The slit can have any desired dimensions including the entire outer edge.
Abstract:
Apparatus and method for cutting an end portion of a carton blank, e.g. to form a stitch flap, employs a rotatably driven male cutting head cooperating with a rotatably driven female cutting head. The female cutting head has a peripheral cutting groove therein and an anvil surface adjacent one side of the groove. The male cutting head has a two edged slot cutting blade of predetermined arcuate length which enters the groove each revolution, and a knife which extends transversely away from the blade and engages the anvil surface each revolution. The blade has a scallop-like cut-out in the side adjacent the anvil surface. The cut-out modifies the blade to a single edged cutting blade for a small part of its length. Scrap portions produced from the carton blank by a slotting cut of the blade and a transverse cut of the knife are integrally connected together by a bridging piece enabled by this cut-out. This integral piece of scrap is conveyed by the groove to a stripping blade and then drops onto a conveyor, so eliminating any uncontrolled portion of scrap. The groove can have radial side channels for more positively gripping strips of scrap engaged therein.
Abstract:
Plastic sheet material used for forming box blanks are provided with soft, bendable score lines by applying frictional heat through rapid vibration. The sheet material is clamped under high pressure between a resilient make-ready and a scoring tool, and is subjected to the vibratory action which generates frictional heat sufficient to melt the plastic material at the engaged interface, thereby forming a score line along which the sheet material may be bent to form an assembled box. A completed box blank may be formed in a single operational step, by cutting the box, impressing the score lines, and impressing embossments, if required, simultaneously in a single operational cycle of seconds duration.
Abstract:
Apparatus such as a paperboard printer slotter is provided with dual slotter shafts each having a device to quickly reposition a slotter knife by moving the same in a circumferential direction with respect to an annular head which supports the same. During such positioning of the slotter knife, it is held stationary while the annular support head is rotated. This slotter knife is releasably mounted on its head and a means is provided to selectively release the lock when it is desired to reposition the knife. The knives on one slotter shaft cut a slot on the leading edge of a first blank and the trailing edge of a following blank. The knives on the other slotter shaft cut the slot on the trailing edge of the first blank and the leading edge of the following blank.