Abstract: Packaging machine, in particular for cigarettes, having subassemblies and elements for handling packaging material and cigarettes. In order to reduce the outlay on servicing for the packaging machine, the practice, in the region where dust and material particles occur to a pronounced extent, is for air to be extracted constantly or temporarily by suction, the particles being carried along in the process. Furthermore, particles adhering to articles, in particular to material webs, may be processed mechanically, in particular by brushes (41, 42), in order for particles to be detached and extracted by suction.

Abstract: A straight fixed cutter is mounted on a frame, a movable cutter carrier slidably supported on the frame to be moved along the fixed cutter. A movable cutter having a disc shape is rotatably mounted on the carrier, and contacted with the fixed cutter. A movable cutter rotating roller is rotatably mounted on the movable cutter carrier and resiliently contacted with the fixed cutter. An endless belt is provided in the frame along the fixed cutter, and connected with the movable cutter carrier. The movable cutter carrier is moved by the endless belt, and the movable cutter is rotated along the fixed cutter to cut a paper sheet mounted on the fixed cutter.

Abstract: A kit for spinning tops having an spindle, at least one body element which has a hole roughly in the area of its center of gravity and which constitutes the body of the top, with a cross section which is essentially equal to the cross section of the spindle, a lower support and an upper support which can be placed on the spindle, at least one of the supports being made to be removed or pulled off from the top body. In accordance with another feature, the kit has a plate-shaped carrier with a recess in which a spindle is supported, with at least one body element being a flat, punch-out top body supported in a punch-out hole in the carrier of the same outline.

Abstract: A packaging machine comprises a rotor 22 having radial mandrels 21 each adapted to carry a tubular blank 11 of square to rectangular cross section as fitted therearound and arranged to successively stop at a plurality of processing stations I to VIII, a group of devices 23 to 28 arranged respectively at the required stations among the processing stations I to VIII for folding and closing a container bottom forming end portion 14 of the blank 11 as fitted around the mandrel 21, and an air suction nozzle 31 for collecting extraneous matter is disposed at a required location along a path of movement of the mandrel.

Abstract: The planar member for a stripping station for a machine for cutting sheet elements consists of a board which may be provided with openings if it is a stripping template, or if it is one of the upper or lower stripping boards is provided with working parts, on one surface and on an opposite surface is provided adjacent a downstream edge with a centering post and at least two mounting strips, an upstream edge of the member is provided with one or more mounting strips which strips protrude from the edges of the board and one of the sides of the board is provided with grasping handles. The planar member is mounted in a frame which has means for engaging the centering post and the mounting strips adjacent the downstream end so that the planar member is not subjected to warping.

Abstract: A method for forming a honeycomb protector for protecting the corners, edges or other surfaces of articles during shipping of such articles comprising self-locking honeycomb panels. In one embodiment, the protector includes first and second unitary panels separated by a channel about which the panels are foldable. The first panel includes a lip which fits into a slit in the second panel to connect and lock the first and second panels in position.

Abstract: An apparatus, method, and pack of tabless, self-opening bags with flapless aperture cutouts pack. In the apparatus and method, cylindrical dies connected to a vacuum source are used to cut out plugs of holes, and the plugs are evacuated to a receptacle. Compression bars, or a relatively shallow bevel cut on the cylindrical die, are used to form area of frangible bonding in the central tab portion of the bag pack. The pack of tabless, self-opening bags with flapless aperture cutouts has no flap portions which might inadvertently detach from bag pack.

Abstract: With the method according to the invention for manufacturing cigarette packets of the hinge-lid type, piles of blanks 10 are mechanically and/or pneumatically handled in a packaging machine before being processed. A cleaning station 26 has for this purpose brush systems 27, 28 acting on the piles of blanks 10 and detaching the impurities from the piles of blanks. In addition, the cleaning station 26 has extraction devices 35, 36 for pneumatically handling the piles of blanks 10. With the aid of the extraction device, the impurities detached by the mechanical cleaning members are sucked away.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for forming three-dimensional containers from a continuous flat web of paper, coated paper, paper board, or laminated paper board ("paper") in which the paper is first scored to define the shape of the container and, thereafter, the scored stock is simultaneously cut and formed into a container. Containers so produced have improved uniformity. The apparatus is less expensive and easier to operate than conventional equipment, and it is easier to change from one style of tray to another. The apparatus also makes possible tray styles which could not be made with machines which cut and transfer paper blanks to a separate forming station.

Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for punching a waste bundle from a stack of bags, especially to form a peripherally-closed hole in the stack as in the production of so-called tie bags, wherein with the lowering of the upper press tool, the waste bundle is cut from the stack of bags lying in a cutting plane pressed into a recess below the cutting plane. The stack is then laterally removed in the plane and an ejector below the plane lifts the waste bundle back into the plane so that it can be swept laterally onto a chute which carries off the waste.

Abstract: A folding table for use in forming a third fold in a printed product, is provided with a plurality of detents that can be shifted into and out of the movement path of the product. Any accumulated paper remnants can be removed from the folding table when the detents, or selected ones of the detents are moved out of the product path. The method of operation of the device facilitates the elimination of production interruptions.

Abstract: The planar member for a stripping station in a machine for cutting sheet elements consists of a board which may be provided with openings if it is a stripping template, or if it is one of the upper or lower stripping boards is provided with working parts, on one surface and on an opposite surface is provided adjacent a downstream edge with a centering post and at least two mounting strips, an upstream edge of the member is provided with one or more mounting strips which strips protrude from the edges of the board and one of the sides of the board is provided with grasping handles. The planar member is mounted in a frame which has means for engaging the centering post and the mounting strips adjacent the downstream end so that the planar member is not subjected to warping.

Abstract: A device for removing blanks which have been cut into a sheet of paper or cardboard and are separated from each other by intermediate strips and are surrounded by a crosswise frontal and a crosswise back strip and two lengthwise side strips. The device includes a lower tool having a grid having apertures corresponding to the size and shape of each of the blanks with bars for supporting the intermediate strips, the lengthwise side strips and front and back crosswise strips, and an upper tool having pushing elements of a shape similar to the blank for pushing the blanks through the apertures of the lower tool and also having pressing devices for holding the intermediate and side strips against the respective bars of the lower tool during the step of separating.

Abstract: A presser assembly (10) is provided for supporting carton blanking scrap during a blanking operation. The presser assembly (10) includes a presser rail (114) having a first end (116) mounted to a guide cylinder (32) and a second end (154) mounted to a second guide cylinder (32) such that each end of the presser rail is vertically movable independent of the opposite end. This, in turn, prevents jamming of the presser assembly during the blanking operation.

Abstract: In a device and a process, as well as a clamping tool for breaking away blank cuttings during the cutting out of cardboard in an automatic cutting press with a breaking away tool comprising breaking away shafts (9), a matrix (11) and a clamping tool for holding the cutting (6) to be broken away through the matrix openings (12) and hanging on a cardboard bridge (13) on the cardboard blank (7), the clamping tool is constructed as a one or multiple-part, flat element (16), which supports flat the matrix (11) and is in elastic operative connection with the breaking away shafts over the cuttings (6) at the time of breaking away. According to a further development of the invention, the flat element (16) is covered with an elastic covering layer (17) and with a multi-part construction the flat element (16) comprises clamping segments cyclically rotatable about its longitudinal axis, so that during rotation openings are freed between the clamping segments for discharging the separated cuttings (16).

Abstract: A rotary pin stripper is disclosed for separating scrap pieces of paperboard from finish pieces after the pieces have been cut in a die cutter. In the preferred embodiment, the pin stripper cylinder is supported at mid-length, and the stripper cylinder is readily released for replacement and/or repair, while also providing for torque transmission between two separate, axially extending sections of the eccentric cylinder.

Abstract: A method for providing paperboard to paperboard facing surfaces for forming an effective seal for cartons formed from a laminate of a relatively flexible fluid impervious material and a relatively rigid paperboard material.

Abstract: A flat insulated container blank for forming the sidewall of a conventional insulated paper container made on a rotary turret single wrap cup making machine includes an inner layer of container stock, an intermediate layer of insulating material adhered to the container stock and an outer layer of label material. The blank is made from advancing webs of sheet material by a continuous form process.

Abstract: A waste stripping station for a machine for die-cutting plate-like workpieces includes a perforated board which is positioned between an upper movable tool and a lower movable tool for supporting a plate-like workpiece carried into the station by grippers. Waste bits of the workpiece are pinched between pins or elements of the upper and lower stripping tools and are carried vertically downward through perforations in the board. In order to provide clearance for the grippers, the perforated board is mounted to pivot around an upstream edge in order that its downstream edge may be lifted from a position allowing passage of the grippers to a position slightly lifting the plate-like workpiece.

Abstract: A presser assembly is provided for supporting carton blanking scrap during a blanking operation. The presser assembly includes a presser rail having a first end mounted to a guide cylinder and a second end mounted to a second guide cylinder such that each end of the presser rail is vertically movable independent of the opposite end. This, in turn, prevents jamming of the presser assembly during the blanking operation.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming loose fill packing material which comprises a shredder device operative to convert sheets of corrugated cardboard into elongated, thin paper strips which are discharged onto a perforated conveyor movable between a loading position at the shredder device and a discharge position where the strips are emptied into a collection hopper. A suction device is mounted beneath the conveyor, downstream from the shredder device, which is operative to apply a suction to the cardboard strips to remove dirt, dust and other foreign materials therefrom, and then the cleaned paper strips are transmitted along an angled sifter plate having a plurality of openings which are sized to allow undesired, short strips of paper to pass therethrough for deposit into a waste hopper. A spraying device is located at the sifter plate to deposit a liquid material on the paper strips having microbicidal, sanitizing, insect repellant, disinfectant and deodorizing properties.

Abstract: A presser assembly is provided for supporting carton blanking scrap during a blanking operation. The presser assembly includes a presser rail having a first end mounted to a guide cylinder and a second end mounted to a second guide cylinder such that each end of the presser rail is vertically movable independent of the opposite end. This, in turn, prevents jamming of the presser assembly during the blanking operation.

Abstract: An improved method for forming tray, boat, tray, boat, and/or clamshell type, paperboard, cartons that have horizontal main wall panels and side wall panels, with corner flaps, joined to the main wall panels and extending therefrom and adhesively secured to each other. The cartons are formed from rolls or sheets of paperboard wherein the cutting, stripping, gluing, and forming operations are performed in a completely inline operation.

Abstract: A stripping apparatus includes a pair of first and second base plates which are disposed in facing relationship to each other in a vertical direction and movable toward and away from each other. The first and second base plates include first support holes and second support holes, respectively, disposed in alignment with each other in the vertical direction. A plurality of pressing pins are insertable into the first and second support holes. A fixing device is provided on each of the first and second base plates for releasably fixing the pressing pins inserted into the first and second support holes.

Abstract: The stuffing tool transports and packs stuffing material into cavities of fabric dolls, animals, pillows, or other creations. The three sections of the stuffing tool are: the handle (20), the shaft (30), and the tip section (40).The handle (20) is made of a rigid material and is attached to the shaft (30) in the normal position of handles.The shaft (30) is made from a rigid material and is long enough to reach into the normal cavities of fabric dolls, animals, pillows, or other creations.The tip section (40) is made from a rigid material. The tip section (40) has a series of fluted ridges (40A) which extend outward from the shaft (30), grooves (40B), and a counter-sunk hole (40C) to allow it to grab the stuffing material and transport it to the interior of the cavity.The stuffing tool is made in several sizes and finishes.

Abstract: A method for aligning the process tools of a typical box blank die-cutting machine. The method contemplates the use of alignment openings 21 and 22 on the surface of male and female tools 19 and 20 corresponding to a cut through-hole 16 on test sheet 14. As test sheet is urged through the process, a series of alignment cylinders, 18, 24 are used to insure each of the male and female tools and test sheet are aligned by having the alignment cylinders fall cleaning through the various alignment openings and through-hole. Once the tools at each position of the process are aligned, alignment screws 31 and alignment members 28 on the machine frame 25 serve to fix the position of the tools relative to the position of the sheets to be die-cut, stripped and blanked. Accordingly, the method contemplates alignment and set-up of the machine based upon the urged position of the sheets to be etched and cut.

Abstract: Method for producing sheets of corrugated cardboard with a variable format in which a web of corrugated cardboard is removed continuously from a heating and pulling device of s conventional corrugated cardboard installation. The sheets are processed to the required format in at least one longitudinal cutting and grooving device. For this purpose the web is conveyed through a pulling device. A cross cutter cuts the sheets of corrugated cardboard from the cardboard web according to a preset format. The cardboard web is conveyed to a cross cutter for the corrugated cardboard sheets in the direction of conveyance without cutting them crosswise. When the format is changed, the area of the web of corrugated cardboard where the formats overlap is cut out by the cross cutter and removed to a waste container through a trap.

Abstract: A tool used for an upper tool blank separating station has a plate provided with numerous apertures and a lower surface provided with one of a two-layer system of fastening with a first of the two layers having a plurality of loops and a second of the two layers having a plurality of catches or hooks for engaging the loops, and an upper surface of each block at least partially covered with the other of the two layers so that when the block is pressed against the lower surface of the plate, it is mounted thereon.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for removing a plurality of printed labels configured as paper sheet portions from a plurality of stacked pressing sheets, the labels being partially precut and arranged in a predetermined pattern in the pressing sheets, including a die plate having a plurality of openings formed therein in a predetermined pattern corresponding to the pattern of the labels in the pressing sheets. The labels are pressed from the pressing sheets through the openings by a plurality of press members which are arranged in a predetermined pattern corresponding to the patterns of both the labels and the die openings, and project from a vertically movable press plate. As the labels are pressed from the master sheets, the die plate openings help to maintain the labels in aligned stacks.

Abstract: The common base of the comb-shaped clearing device is made of a shaft. Screws are provided for blocking pairs of parallel arms on a shaft in variable positions as a function of a longitudinal position of a series of points on the cutting cylinder (2). The two arms of each pair, which are symmetrical with respect to a symmetry vertical plane, have inner faces turned toward one another and formed in such a manner as to define therebetween an interval having a width which increases from front to rear.

Abstract: Apparatus for stripping waste material from a paperboard web in a die cutter or die cutting section of a press that includes an outer pin cylinder, carrying self cleaning stripper pin mechanisms, and an inner ejection cylinder mounted eccentrically within the outer pin cylinder by a mounting arrangement that has a longitudinally extending non-rotatable beam with a pair of trolleys mounted thereon that carry rollers engagable with the inner surface of the ejection cylinder to keep the ejection cylinder in a predetermined position at all times with respect to the pin cylinder for engagement with said stripper pin mechanisms.

Abstract: An apparatus for separating a portion of a punch sheet enclosed with intermittently formed notches or cuts comprises a rotation roller, a press roller disposed above the rotation roller, a sheet feeding member for feeding the punch sheet towards the rotation roller, a pressing device for moving the press roller towards the rotation roller to snap a leading end portion of the punch sheet between the rotation roller and the press roller and an operation device operated in association with the pressing device for moving the press roller along an outer peripheral surface of the rotation roller and for separating the portion of the punch sheet enclosed with the notches or cuts from the punch roller.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for stripping and removing external and internal waste automatically from previously die-cut blanks is described. Independently positionable stripping belts permit stripping external perimeter and internal lengthwise strips of waste material from the blanks, followed by vibrating and brushing the blanks for automatic removal of loosely held internal waste.

Abstract: Chip-impalement spears for rotary cutters are provided in a rectangular shape with a single sharp bevelled edge along the top of the spears and adapted to be placed parallel to a roller of the rotary cutter. The spears are embedded in one roller and arranged so that their sharp edges will come into slight contact with an opposing roller. Properties of the spears, in particular, hardness, are selected to enable the spears to be rapidly bent over in use, forming a chip-retaining barb. Spears having this capability may be obtained by making transverse cuts across a cutting rule.

Abstract: An upper tool of a blank separating station, which is operated within a machine for producing blanks for packages in sheet material is characterized by the upper tool consisting of a rectangular board provided with a pattern of openings. A lower surface of the board bears a large number of punches which are mounted on the board by a self-locking pin arrangement that extends through one of the apertures in the board.

Abstract: A multi-barb pick for a waste stripping machine. The pick is formed from a flat sheet metal piece. Two spaced triangular projections, generally parallel, extend from one section of the piece, with each projection terminating in a barb. Each barb is generally rectangular in form and two adjacent edges thereof are sharpened along each surface thereof. The barb is employed in a conventional waste stripping apparatus for removing cut sections from a paperboard web of indefinite length.

Abstract: A waste tab stripping apparatus used to form corrugated boxes from fiberboard blanks includes a mounting bracket adapted to retrofit the apparatus to a standard box-forming machine. A pair of counterrotating brushes are attached to the mounting bracket and are positioned so as to brush across the path of the blank. The brushes are longitudinally oriented so that their central axis extends at an angle substantially within the range of 5.degree. to 17.degree. relative to the direction of the path of the blank. One brush is positioned above the plane of blank and another brush is positioned below the plane of the blank. As the blank engages the stripping apparatus, the counterrotating brushes operate with a pinching force at the nip sufficient to strip the waste tab away toward the side edge of the blank. Pneumatically-powered motors are used to drive the brushes.

Abstract: After being formed an engaged die by engaging a male die of an upside die to a female die of a downside die through a space, being carried the engaged die on a carrier to a stamping part and being fastened the male die to an upside die mount after being lowered this mount, the mount is raised and the male die is pull out from the female die. After being returned the carrier to the former place, being brought the sliding plate close to the upper surface of the downside die, being supplied the stacked paper sheets having cutting slits and connecting portions along a guide plate of the sliding plate, being moved the carrier with pressing to the sheet positioning position and being positioned the downside die to just under part of the upside die, the supplementary supporting block is contacted with the lower side of the downside die. In this condition, the supplementary supporting block is lowered with pressing the shaped section with the male die by lowering the upside die mount.

Abstract: An improved adjustable rotary waste removal apparatus for removing and ejecting pieces of paperboard cut from a web of paperboard. The apparatus includes a pair of rollers, one of the rollers supporting many stripper pins and the other roller being a backup or anvil roller which supports the paperboard as the stripper pin passes through it. As the roller holding the stripper pins continues to turn, an internal off-center roller causes an ejection sleeve to move upwardly and remove the waste paperboard from the stripper pin. The improvement of the present invention relates to the adjustable mounting of the internal roller which moves the ejection sleeve outwardly so that the size of the roller supporting the stripper pins can be easily and quickly changed.

Abstract: In a adapted folder for folding sheet products there is provided a combination having two knife cylinders with shear action knives of which one has pins adjacent to its knives for holding cut off trimmings of product, and a suction duct whose opening extends around part of the periphery of the cylinder with the pins. A high degree of operational reliability may be achieved without weakening the structure of the pin cylinder if compressed air nozzles are arranged in a row alternating with the pins and supplied with compressed air by timing means so that air flows from the nozzles when they register with the suction duct opening.

Abstract: An apparatus for stripping the scrap portion from a die cut blank includes a stripper pin carrier providing a pattern of stripper pins supported in a resilient compressible material layer in which the stripper pins are demountably embedded. The stripper pins may be inserted into the reslient layer to provide a pattern or patterns which will accommodate virtually any size, shape and location of scrap portions to be stripped from a blank. The stripper pins can be removed and reinserted in a different pattern to accommodate a different run of blanks of corrugated paperboard or the like. Programmable robotic control may be used for pin placement and removal. The stripper pin pattern, location and rotation are synchronized with operation of the upstream cutting die such that the die cut blanks move continuously under the stripper roll for automatic scrap stripping.

Abstract: A pad sander paper punch assembly includes a base member having three upstanding walls for locating thereon a standard size sheet of sandpaper. A plate member is then placed over the sheet of sandpaper, the plate member having locating tabs which cooperate with the upstanding walls on the base member. The plate member and the base member are both perforated in locations corresponding to suction holes on the platen of the pad sander and a punch is then utilized to pass through the plate and base member perforations to appropriately perforate the sandpaper sandwiched therebetween. The base member is further formed with recessed walls so that the sandpaper may be creased at its ends to go over the sander platen with the perforations therein properly aligned with the suction holes in the sander platen.

Abstract: An apparatus for stripping the scrap portion from a die cut blank includes a stripper pin carrier providing a pattern of stripper pins supported in a resilient compressible material layer in which the stripper pins are demountably embedded. The stripper pins may be inserted into the resilient layer to provide a pattern or patterns which will accommodate virtually any size, shape and location of scrap portions to be stripped from a blank. The stripper pins can be removed and reinserted in a different pattern to accommodate a different run of blanks of corrugated paperboard or the like. Programmable robotic control may be used for pin placement and removal. A unique positive stripping apparatus includes a resilient soft-covered roll beneath the blank at the point of stripping and into which the leading edge of the scrap portion is pressed by the stripper pins on the upper rotary pin-carrying roll.

Abstract: Rolls of paper are converted by unwinding, cutting and stacking into a relatively high stack of paper sheets of a predetermined uniform size. At least one of the vertical corners of the stack is removed by running an electrically driven manual planar down the corner so as to leave each sheet with one or more corners having a notch for use in orienting the sheet such as in feeding it in to a copy machine. The planer is equipped with guide means so that the corner notches all have the same predetermined size and shape. The planer is preferably equipped with a vacuum hose which removes the debris as it is formed and conveys it to a vacummized collection chamber. Preferably, the stacks of paper sheets are accumulated onto the deck if a pallet having on the underside a support integrally formed from a sheet of material so as to have parallel channel formations adjacent to and inset from opposite sides of the deck. It is also desired to provide a center-post or pedestal.

Abstract: Blanks (10) for producing folding boxes, etc., are severed from an advancing sheet (11), conveyed continuously, at a constant speed by first drawing rollers specifically by partial severing cuts (cutting lines 33, 34) supplementing one another and made in successive work cycles. The blanks (10) are severed from the sheet (11), with the exception of residual connections (35), and are separated completely from the sheet (11) by tearing as a result of a higher speed of additional drawing roller located downstream of the first rollers.

Abstract: A tandem arrangement of diecutting rolls severs scrap from a traveling web in two steps, each of which steps effects cutting entirely through the web, but at different peripheral locations. The partially cut scrap is carried with the remainder of the web from the first roll to the second, and any severed piece that lodges within the cutting element of the second roll is removed by the action of a mechanical scraper, which passes therethrough.

Abstract: A piece of material cut from a web is removed by a stripper mechanism which is preferably embodied in a pair of die cylinders having coacting cutting blades which cut pieces from a web of material passing between the cylinders. As the cylinders rotate, a piece to be removed is releasably secured to one of the cylinders for rotation therewith, the secured piece is pivoted to lift its leading edge from the die by coaction with a finger on the other die which bears on a trailing portion of the piece. After the piece is carried away by the one die, it is removed by cooperation with a stripper plate which passes between the raised leading edge of the piece and the die and releases and removes the piece from the die.

Abstract: Waste edge pieces are separated from punched blanks, especially cardboard box blanks, by puncturing to engage followed by outward pulling. The puncturing action is performed by a pawl, having a serrated edge, which is driven in an orbital motion.

Abstract: A waste stripping unit is disposed downstream from a die cutter for cutting a sheet of paperboard into a product and waste and includes an upper roller having a male die corresponding to the waste of the sheet and a lower roller having a female die which cooperates with the male die on the upper roller to separate the waste from the product during passage of the sheet between the rotating upper and lower rollers.

Abstract: An improved mounting system for stripper pins used in separating pre-cut areas from folding carton blanks. A system of rails, tracks, holders and brackets is provided which facilitates easy adjustment of the stripper pin location and reduces preparation time. An important feature is that the horizontal surfaces of the pin mounting brackets are of minimal area so as to prevent accumulation of scrap pieces separated from paperboard blanks from accumulating on the pin brackets and tracks. This minimizes manual clean-up work and press downtime.