Optional Tool Pairs Alternatively Operative Patents (Class 83/479)
  • Patent number: 10442653
    Abstract: The apparatus includes: a conveyance directional processing part for performing processing along the conveyance direction onto the sheet, the conveyance directional processing part being constructed such that at the same position in the conveyance direction, a plurality of processing machines of two or more types are aligned in a width direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction and provided in a freely attachable and detachable manner; a condition input part through which processing conditions in the conveyance directional processing part are inputted; a display part for displaying the processing conditions; and a processing machine selection control part for acquiring types and arrangement of the processing machines to be provided in the conveyance directional processing part such that the processing conditions may be satisfied and then displaying the acquired types and arrangement on the display part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Duplo Seiko Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Oiwa, Tomoyuki Nagayama, Akane Tokutake
  • Patent number: 6637997
    Abstract: A capstan for handling slitting tools comprises a base, a pivoting frame, an outer frame and a plurality of shafts. The pivoting frame is supported by the base for pivotal movement about an axis. The outer frame is supported by the rotating frame for translational movement along the axis. The plurality of shafts extends from the outer frame transversely to the axis. The capstan preferably further includes an axial actuator for translating the outer frame relative to the pivoting frame along the axis. This permits an attendant to raise or lower the outer frame, and, hence, raise or lower the shafts. By thus raising or lowering the shafts, the attendant can adjust the height of the shafts to a comfortable level for loading or unloading knives and spacers without excessive lifting or bending. An optional pusher serves to automatically slide the tools between the capstan and the slitter machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: Blue IP, Inc.
    Inventors: Rick L. Ahrns, Robert L. Schmiesing
  • Patent number: 6138544
    Abstract: A rotary die-cutter having a planetary configuration for die-cutting paper products such as corrugated and solid-fiber paper board includes a frame in which is mounted a rotatable turret assembly. Rotatably attached to the turret assembly is a first die-cutting cylinder, a second die-cutting cylinder, and an anvil. Various tools or forms are detachably mounted to the exterior of the first and second die-cutting cylinders to cut, score, or crease paper box packaging materials. Each die-cutting cylinder is either in an operational position or a set-up position depending on the orientation of the turret assembly. In order to change the tools or forms of a die-cutting cylinder, the turret assembly is rotated such that the operational die-cutting cylinder moves to the set-up position, while the die-cutting cylinder in the set-up position simultaneously moves to the operational position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Inventor: Gregory J. Newell
  • Patent number: 5904085
    Abstract: An improved sheet material cutting apparatus having a construction in which a rotary blade and a fixed blade are mounted on the housing of a supporting member. The rotary blade inclining forward only during cutting of the sheet material, and the rotary blade being lifted up from the fixed blade during travel when not cutting the sheet material. The sheet material cutting apparatus is provided with a rotation mechanism for rotating the rotary blade. The rotation mechanism, preferably is a roller arranged in a roller housing hole formed in the housing of the supporting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Onishilite Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takamasa Onishi, Zentaro Kamura
  • Patent number: 5158002
    Abstract: A slitter which includes multiple spaced pairs of arbors pivotally mounted to the slitter frame. Each pair of arbors includes cutter assemblies and is alignable with a shiftable bearing housing shiftably mounted to the frame. A drive member is fixedly connected to the bearing housing for correlative shiftable movement and causes correlative rotative movement of one pair of arbors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1992
    Assignee: Braner, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas S. Matsunaga, Paul F. Kulczewski
  • Patent number: 5131900
    Abstract: A machine for creasing and slitting a travelling web, such as a cardboard web, characterized by an assembly which includes a carriage having a tool storage device with at least one spare tool and a lever arm mounting a tool for rotation. The lever arm is movable from a position with the tool engaging the web passing through the machine to a withdrawn position which enables changing the tool with one of the spare tools. Each of the assemblies is adjustably positioned in a transverse direction relative to the direction of movement of the web. The device includes a second group of assemblies which contains counter-tools for the tools of the first group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1992
    Assignee: Peters Maschinenfabrik GmbH
    Inventor: Lothar Schroeder
  • Patent number: 5120297
    Abstract: The present invention describes an apparatus for creasing and cutting an endless web of cardboard. A pair of rollers operates on the web while another pair of rollers is in an inactive position where the tools mounted on the rollers can be moved to new positions. When it is time for different operations to be performed on the web the original rollers working on the web are removed from their working position and the rollers previously in the inactive position are moved to the working position. The rollers now in the working position have had their tools aligned for the new operation while they were in the inactive position. The rollers originally in the working position are now in an inactive position where the tools on these rollers can be aligned for another operation. Each pair of rollers is independently driven to spin independent of the position of the roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1992
    Assignee: Fosber s.r.l.
    Inventor: Mauro Adami
  • Patent number: 5107695
    Abstract: The apparatus comprises a pair of rotatable devices (9,11) each holding a plurality of metal shaping and/or cutting rollers (17,19;127), the rollers of one device meshing with rollers of the other device to produce specific designs or widths of material. This is made possible by merely selecting suitable rollers of both sets and when production of a specific metallic section or desired widths are terminated, other rollers are selected by rotating the rotatable devices, if another metallic section or widths are desired. When suitable rollers (17,19:127) have been selected they are locked in operating position and the operation is allowed to proceed by feeding metal strip to the machine. When another design or widths are required, the devices are unlocked, a selection is made, and the devices are again locked to produce the new metallic section or widths of material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1992
    Inventor: Jacky Vandenbroucke
  • Patent number: 4976676
    Abstract: An apparatus for longitudinally slitting and/or grooving material sheets, particularly for sheets of corrugated board, which are being transported through the apparatus. The apparatus includes a plurality of tool members positioned in rows on opposing sheet sides which cooperate in opposing pairs. Each set of rows includes a drive shaft and an adjusting spindle in operable communication with the tool members which include tool body members and which can be conducted within the apparatus along guide rails and can be coupled through controllable couplings to the adjusting spindles. Each tool body member also includes a plurality of tool members where at least one of the tool body members and guide rails are adjustable within the apparatus to position the opposing pair of tool members in the operating positions in engagement with the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Assignee: BHS-Bayerische Berg-, Hutten- und Salzwerke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hermann Mensing, Reinhard Sternitzke, Karl Waldeck, Klaus Schnabel
  • Patent number: 4887502
    Abstract: A machine for slitting metal sheet has a bridge-type frame provided with upper and lower beams supported on posts. In the space between the two beams are upper and lower powered arbors and also upper and lower storage arbors which align respectively with the upper and lower powered arbors. Each powered arbor supports and turns several knives which are mounted on hubs along those arbors, and these knives when not needed may be moved, along with their hubs, onto the aligned storage arbors. Each knife is captured in a carriage which moves along one of the beams and contains back-up rollers which bear against the knife to prevent its arbor from deflecting under the spreading force exerted by the metal sheet as it is slit. The hubs have a wide stance, and accordingly the knives on them do not acquire a wobble when the hubs are secured on their respective arbors; yet notwithstanding the wide stance, the knives may be brought quite close together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1989
    Assignee: Red Bud Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth Voges
  • Patent number: 4706532
    Abstract: The cutting apparatus with rules comprises a cutting form placed in an upper panel support (5) and a lower panel. The panel support (5) is constructed in a fashion enabling it to be withdrawn from the apparatus for purposes of replacing it. The replacement cutting form, supported in another panel support (5) previously prepared, is placed on the lower guides (19) of an adjustment table (14). The adjustment table (14) is brought up against the guides (4) which support the panel support (5) to be replaced in the machine. The latter is withdrawn from the machine so as to come to rest on the upper guides (19) of the adjustment table (14). This pivots by 180.degree. and the replacement cutting form is pushed onto the guides 4 situated in the cutting station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1987
    Inventor: Osamu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 4563930
    Abstract: An apparatus for longitudinally cutting and grooving a continuously moving length of material. The device has at least two cutting and grooving units, each provided with separate cutting and grooving tools. The units are positioned at different vertical levels and are vertically movable in unison in the same direction to selectively place one of the units in position for operating and the other unit in position for adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1986
    Assignee: Werner H. K. Peters Maschinenfabrik GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Schommler, Arthur Dirks
  • Patent number: 4549452
    Abstract: Upon upper and lower cutting tools, in a slitting machine, cutting along the opposite edges of a web being adjusted transversely to the web, a corresponding suction nozzle, for taking up the cut-off edge of the web, is correspondingly adjusted transversely to ensure that it takes up the cut-off edge, by a respective drive unit. For ensuring entry of the leading end of a cut-off edge strip into the nozzle, a respective finger is swung down in advance of the leading end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1985
    Assignee: BHS-Bayerische Berg-, Hutten- und Salzwerke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Lothar Jobst
  • Patent number: 4527454
    Abstract: A rotary shear for trimming sheet metal has a main support beam extending perpendicular to a normal workpiece transport direction and symmetrical about a central upright plane extending in the transport direction, a pair of symmetrically identical housings carried on the beam and each displaceable therealong transverse to the direction, and respective pairs of upper and lower rotary trimming blades carried on the housings. The upper and lower blades are rotatable about respective common axes substantially perpendicular to the transport direction. The beam is of trapezoidal hollow section and has a generally planar upper surface formed by a family of parallel and horizontal lines and inclined downward against the transport direction. The housings are each provided with a slide having a planar lower surface lying generally flatly on the beam surface, and the housings and beam are provided with guides engageable parallel to the surfaces with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1985
    Assignee: Hoesch Werke Ag
    Inventor: Horst Walter
  • Patent number: 4515052
    Abstract: A duplex slitter scorer mounted on a single pivoted sub-carrier is provided with a single power adjusting apparatus disposed entirely below the paper feed path. The adjusting apparatus includes a single rotatable lead screw to position a common carrier mounting first and second relatively movable adjusting arms that are selectively engageable in sequence with the slitting and creasing heads. The lead screw axis is fixed transversely and both adjusting arms are retractable to permit indexing of the pivoted sub-carrier. To compensate for paper weave, the sub-frame is moved along its pivot axis. The lead screw is fixed against longitudinal movement but is partially controlled by a signal indicative of sub-carrier position along its pivot axis so that the instantaneous position of the adjusting apparatus common carrier is related to the instantaneous position of the sub-frame along its pivot axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1985
    Assignee: S&S Corrugated Paper Machinery Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen S. Flaum
  • Patent number: 4503739
    Abstract: Rotary power saw having plural saw wheels mounted on a turret and means to rotate the turret for presenting a particular saw wheel for sawing. A single drive means is provided, and means are provided for engaging it with a selected saw wheel for sawing, and disengaging it for changing the saw wheel selected for sawing. Thus, only the selected blade is driven, and only a single motor need be provided, yet the saw wheel can be changed easily and without tools.In the preferred embodiment of the invention means are also provided for raising, lowering and tilting a selected saw wheel, so the present saw is as versatile as earlier saws having only a single blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1985
    Inventor: Edmund T. Konieczka
  • Patent number: 4476758
    Abstract: A slitter scorer having upper and lower web paths is provided with suction trim means along opposite edges of a web to be processed. Adjacent each suction trim means, and associated with each of said paths, there is provided a web deflecting means for flattening a web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1984
    Assignee: Molins Machine Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert E. Coburn
  • Patent number: 4413541
    Abstract: A compound printer having print stations, die cutting stations and other operations, such as perforating and punching, has structure for rapid changeover of the individual stations. Movable carriages on carriage bars and indexing mounts allow rapid removal and installation of the elements, such as the print station or the die. Changeover time is substantially reduced. Removed components may be stored on the carriages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1983
    Assignee: Elizabeth Short Biggar
    Inventor: Frank M. Biggar, III
  • Patent number: 4358978
    Abstract: Edge trimming apparatus and method for trimming off wavy edges of strip material, e.g. metal strip, wherein rotary trimming knives for each edge of the strip are movable transversely relative to the advancing strip. The knives are pivotally supported about vertical axis and can have their transverse spacing adjusted, the support blocks preferably being transversely slidable in guides which are mounted on a carriage which itself is transversely movable relative to the advancing strip. Edge sensors are located adjacent edge regions of the strip and signals from the sensors are passed to a device, for example a hydraulic jack, for moving the carriage transversely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1982
    Assignee: The Head Wrightson Machine Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenneth T. Lawson
  • Patent number: 4346635
    Abstract: A slitter and readily removable head includes a drive housing and an idle housing projecting from a base with the arbors for the slitting knives extending between the housings. The lower arbor is journaled in vertically movable blocks with a jack system in the base thus moving the lower arbor. The idle housing and arbors are movable on the base as a unit away from the drive housing so that the idle housing and arbors may readily be removed and replaced. The lower arbor journal block of the idle housing includes a T-slot socket engageable with one or more jacks at a certain horizontal position so that arbors of different length may be employed. The idle housing and arbors forming the removable head contain no gearing, jacks, jack drive connections or fluid or electrical lines requiring connection or disconnection. A turntable may be employed to move the disconnected head to a storage or retooling location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1982
    Assignee: Loopco Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Ferdinand A. Krauss, Ivan S. Ganyard, Raymond E. Sabbatis
  • Patent number: 4328727
    Abstract: A slitter-scorer apparatus comprises upper and lower slitter-scorer units which are disposed in one above the other relationship and are vertically movable respectively. The apparatus can immediately change slitting and scoring operations along the flowing direction of long and flat materials, which are fed continuously, without any reduction of the flowing speed of the materials, and the operations can be performed on the materials which flow along an approximately straight line, while the total length of the slitter-scorer apparatus is shortened to the upmost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1982
    Assignee: Rengo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masateru Tokuno
  • Patent number: 4327620
    Abstract: A slitter having multiple spaced pairs of arbors carried upon a rotatable housing which is shiftable as a unit toward and away from a second housing which is adapted to support a selected pair of such arbors during the slitting operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1982
    Assignee: Braner Enterprises
    Inventors: James Greinke, Douglas Matsunaga, Eric W. Mosquera
  • Patent number: 4265155
    Abstract: A slitter having multiple spaced pairs of arbors supported for pivotal movement upon a frame. A drive located adjacent the pivot axis of the pairs of arbors is provided to make driving contact with one arbor of each of the arbor pairs as such pair of arbors is brought into and positioned across the passline of the slitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1981
    Assignee: Braner Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Esteban Lopez, Douglas Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 4242934
    Abstract: A frame supports an upper set of trim chutes movable toward and away from each other as well as a lower set of trim chutes movable toward and away from each other. The frame supports an upper web support member and a lower support member thereby defining two web paths. Each trim chute has a portion pivotable to an inoperative position wherein the extent to which each end portion projects in an upstream direction is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1981
    Assignee: Molins Machine Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert E. Coburn
  • Patent number: 4236431
    Abstract: A slitter with a plurality of slitter heads mounted on a turntable to allow rotation of the heads. Each slitter head is adapted to be joined to a motor drive by means of an interconnecting arbor end portion which extends from the outboard bearing of the slitting head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1980
    Assignee: Braner Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles B. Gawlik, James D. Hall, Douglas S. Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 4226151
    Abstract: An arbor slitter for use in a slitting line, the arbor slitter having at least two pairs of cooperating, blade-carrying arbors. The inboard ends of the arbors of each arbor pair are supported by an inboard bearing housing. The inboard bearing housings of the arbor pairs are mounted on a common base having caster means resting upon a smooth upper surface of a portion of the slitter frame. The base by virtue of its caster means is both shiftable and positionable along this upper surface of the slitter frame so that each arbor pair can be shifted between a working position and a set-up position. The slitter frame has an outboard bearing housing movable thereon into and out of engagement with the outboard ends of the arbors of each arbor pair when in the working position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1980
    Assignee: Cincinnati Incorporated
    Inventors: John J. Littley, Carl W. Koors, Richard F. Fussner, Frank Lengel
  • Patent number: 4224847
    Abstract: A tool positioning apparatus which is adapted to position by numerical control a plurality of pairs of tools attached to a pair of parallel shafts so that longitudinal slits, scores or the like may be produced along a web of board such as corrugated board conveyed through between said pair of shafts is provided with a tool positioning apparatus, said apparatus comprising tool feed control devices which are provided correspondingly to the number of said pairs of tools and are movable respectively on a guide member disposed parallel to said shafts by driving motors which are numerically controlled by a positioning controller and which have shifters insertably engageable with pairs of tool holders corresponding thereto respectively on which said pairs of tools are fixed; and a moving device which enables said shifters to engage with and disengage from simultaneously said pairs of tool holders corresponding thereto respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1980
    Assignee: Rengo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masateru Tokuno
  • Patent number: 4212218
    Abstract: A slitter having a pivotal head carrying multiple spaced pairs of arbors with said head being liftable to displace the arbors from the pass line of the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1980
    Assignee: Braner Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Harold R. Braner, Douglas S. Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 4183273
    Abstract: A slitter having multiple spaced pairs of arbors carried upon a rotatable housing which is shiftable as a unit toward and away from a second housing which is adapted to support a selected pair of such arbors during the slitting operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1980
    Assignee: Braner Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: James G. Greinke, Douglas S. Matsunaga, Eric W. Mosquera
  • Patent number: 4161808
    Abstract: A machine for longitudinally cutting and/or grooving continuous sheet material comprises first and second stations each of which has means for cutting and/or grooving the sheet material, the stations being spaced apart longitudinally in a direction along which the sheet material is fed through the machine, the sheet material first passing the first station and then the second station. The stations are upwardly and downwardly movable between working and inoperative positions, and a device for cutting the continuous sheet material transversely into sections is also provided. The working positions of the two stations are in a common plane along which, in operation, the sheet material is fed and each of the stations has a first guide device for guiding the sheet material, the first guide device of each station being disposed on one side of the common plane when the station is in its working position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1979
    Assignee: Werner H.K. Peters Maschinenfabrik G.m.b.H.
    Inventor: Gerhard Wittstock
  • Patent number: 4142455
    Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for slitting a web of material such as paperboard utilizing at least two rotatable turrets disposed one above the other. Each turret has a pair of shafts adapted to have blades selectively positionable thereon by way of a master shifter which adjusts the blades for the next production run on one of the shafts which is in an inoperative position while the other shaft on each turret is in an operative position.BACKGROUNDSlitting apparatus particularly of the type known as an automatic slitter-scorer which includes either a computer or a mini-processor have been proposed heretofore. See U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,651,723; 3,961,547; 3,646,418; 3,831,502, 3,587,374; 4,010,677; 4,033,217. In the apparatus disclosed in said patents, blades are moved along a shaft to a predetermined position and then secured to the shaft for rotation therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1979
    Assignee: Molins Machine Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert E. Coburn
  • Patent number: 3961547
    Abstract: A machine for continuously scoring and slitting paper, such as corrugated board and the like and for changing the pattern of cuts and scores while the paper is in motion. Two sets of scoring and slitting rollers having a plurality of scoring and slitting assemblies thereon are used, only one of which is in use at any time. The inactive set of rollers can be adjusted and secured in a new cutting pattern while the other set is operating. The scoring and slitting assemblies on the rollers are moved into position by a common threaded rod. Each roller, scoring or slitting assembly, is provided with a split nut and an electrically controlled clutch which is used to engage the nuts and to move the roller assemblies selectively along the threaded rod to a desired cutting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1974
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1976
    Inventors: Maurice Shainberg, Joseph Purcell
  • Patent number: RE31521
    Abstract: A slitter-scorer apparatus comprises upper and lower slitter-scorer units which are disposed in one above the other relationship and are vertically movable respectively. The apparatus can immediately change slitting and scoring operations along the flowing direction of long and flat materials, which are fed continuously, without any reduction of the flowing speed of the materials, and the operations can be performed on the materials which flow along an approximately straight line, while the total length of the slitter-scorer apparatus is shortened to the upmost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1984
    Assignee: Rengo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masateru Tokuno
  • Patent number: RE35345
    Abstract: The present invention describes an apparatus for creasing and cutting an endless web of cardboard. A pair of rollers operates on the web while another pair of rollers is in an inactive position where the tools mounted on the rollers can be moved to new positions. When it is time for different operations to be performed on the web the original rollers working on the web are removed from their working position and the rollers previously in the inactive position are moved to the working position. The rollers now in the working position have had their tools aligned for the new operation while they were in the inactive position. The rollers originally in the working position are now in an inactive position where the tools on these rollers can be aligned for another operation. Each pair of rollers is independently driven to spin independent of the position of the roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1996
    Assignee: Foster S.R.L.
    Inventor: Mauro Adami