Abstract: The invention relates to a preheating device for locally controllable preheating of a material web (12) comprising at least one smooth web and/or at least one corrugated web and moving in feed direction (A), before any adhesive is applied to the material web (12) and before the web (12) is glued to at least one other material web to form a corrugated cardboard web. The device comprises a preheating element (14) adapted to be fed with heat transfer fluid and which is in contact with the material web (12) at a contact surface (17) extending across the entire width (b) of the material web (12). The preheating element (14) comprises a plurality of adjacent preheating sections (50, 50′, 50″, 50′″) arrayed across the width of the material web (12) and each extending the length of the contact surface (17), each of which sections can be separately fed with heat transfer fluid, preferably steam.

Abstract: A device for production of corrugated cardboard, comprising a first fluted roller (1) and a second fluted roller (2) together forming a corrugating gap (3), a pressure contact roller (4) forming a pressure contact gap (5) together with the second fluted roller (2), feeding means (18) to feed a corrugating strip (16) to the corrugating gap (3) in which the corrugating strip (16) is deformed to make the corrugated strip (20), feeding means (26, 28) to feed a smooth strip (24) to the pressure contact gap (5) in which the smooth strip (24) is pressed into contact with the corrugated strip (20) with an intermediate glue layer to produce a composite strip, and advancing means (36, 38, 40) to advance the composite strip (34) formed by bonding the corrugated strip (20) to the smooth strip (24). Each of the two fluted rollers (1, 2) has a fluted profile on its periphery with profile peaks (PS1, PS2) and profile valleys (PT1, PT2) cooperating in the corrugating process.

Abstract: A heating device for corrugated cardboard comprises a heating member which is formed by a heating plate consisting of a rectangular plate having side walls, front and back walls integral with the plate and a lower or bottom surface of the plate is connected to a sheet of deformed steel having a small thickness to present cells or passages which are obtained by deformation. The front and back borders of the sheet of steel have been folded at 45.degree. angles so as to form a front chamber and a back chamber that act as manifolds for the flow of fluid in the passages. The heating member is connected in a floating manner to a rigid sub-frame by means of rods, and the whole sub-frame and member are also connected in a floating manner to the main frame of the machine that produces the corrugated cardboard.

Abstract: A smooth press implements the application of a covering paper against a corrugated paper passing around a ribbed cylinder or roll of a single corrugator. The smooth press comprises a series of identical support arrangements arranged side-by-side along the ribbed cylinder or roll. Each arrangement has a pad whose support surface is urged against the ribbed cylinder and is curved according to a radius approximately equal to that of the ribbed cylinder in order to cover a plurality of ribs. Each pad is movable between a position disengaged from the corrugated paper and a second position biasing the cover sheet onto the corrugated paper on said ribbed cylinder and is movable individually in a controlled fashion.

Abstract: A smooth press comprises a smooth cylinder acting conjointly with a lower ribbed cylinder in order to apply a covering paper against a corrugating paper passing around the ribbed cylinder and includes a tractor arrangement downstream from the lower ribbed cylinder situated with respect to the smooth cylinder so as to form a contact angle of the covering paper against the ribbed cylinder. The tractor arrangement applies a tension force to the cardboard which creates a reactive radial pressure urging the cover paper against the corrugated paper at the contact surface of the ribbed cylinder.

Abstract: A conduit connector is provided so that a heat medium source, a drain and/or a vacuum pressure source are in fluid communication with a cassette containing rotatable cylinders for producing corrugated paperboard. The cassette is insertable in a frame. At least one plug and associated socket are mounted in a first plate and a second plate, respectively. Each plug is secured to an end of a conduit, and the conduit has another end in communication with the cassette. Each socket is in communication with the source. The first plate is fixed relative to the cassette, and the second plate is fixed relative to the source. The plug and the socket are configured to engage each other upon an insertion of the cassette into the frame so that the conduit is in fluid communication with the source.

Abstract: A device for processing corrugated board includes several lower heating plates on a surface of which the corrugated board web travels, a continuous belt having a lower run moving with the board for applying pressure to the corrugated board and a plurality of elements for loading the lower run of the pressure belt. The elements for loading the lower run of the pressure belt permit the removal of humidity residing in the corrugated board web and these different elements are realized so as to allow the adjustment of their pressure force on the upper face of the lower run of the pressure belt. The elements include one or more brushes mounted to act on the upper surface of the lower run of the continuous belt.

Abstract: A device to limit the glue width on a glue applying roll of a gluing station for applying glue on a sheet of material characterized by the glue applying roll dipping into a container of glue, a doctor blade engaging a surface of the glue applying roll to remove glue, said doctor blade being mounted by an arrangement which moves the blade laterally along the axis of the roll in response to the detected position of the web so that as the web shifts laterally, the edges of the glue film are simultaneously shifted. Preferably, the apparatus includes a second blade which is larger than each doctor blade which has an edge positioned spaced from the surface of the glue applying roll to reduce the size of the film in the area of the doctor blade.

Abstract: A vertical rear door for a single-face station which has a pressurized volume and which station is used to produce corrugated cardboard. The door consists of a panel with an outer dimension slightly smaller than the inner dimensions of the door frame in which it is received. The whole periphery of the panel of the door is provided with peripheral seals resting on the inner periphery of the framework. An interlocking arrangement includes at least a hook mounted to extend in a vertical plane from the inner surface of the panel of the door and liftable so that it can move in a vertical plane by means of a lifting arrangement. The hook engages an interlocking axle which is mounted permanently on the door frame and the front part of the inner notch of the hook has a forward curvature to surround a substantial portion of the axle when the hook is engaged thereon.

Abstract: A device for adjusting the distance between a web leading roll, such as a corrugating roll, and a glue applying roll in a glue unit comprises a shaft arranged to extend across the frame of the machine parallel to the glue applying roll with the gluing unit for the glue applying roll engaging the shaft, an arrangement for lifting the gluing unit to rotate around the shaft so that the glue applying roll will be positioned closer to the web leading roll and the device includes at least one cam mounted in the frame to engage a stop on the subframe of the glue unit to limit the amount of movement in elevation of the gluing unit.

Abstract: A single-face station for a machine that produces corrugated cardboard comprises a frame which includes a stand with two lateral wall members, a lower cassette which carries a lower pressure roll being positioned on support and resting surfaces formed in the lateral walls, an upper cassette having a pair of corrugating rolls resting on the lower cassette and on guide surfaces in each of the side walls. The resting surface and support surface extend at right angles to each other and obliquely to a horizontal plane and the arrangement includes a holding arrangement to exert a downward force on anchoring points provided in a lower rear portion of the upper cassette in order to hold the upper cassette and lower cassette on their respective resting, supporting and guiding surfaces. In addition, there is an extracting arrangement for allowing the upper cassette to be withdrawn laterally from the frame.

Abstract: A sealing device, which is situated between a rotary cylinder and the opposite edge of a wall of a pressure case, is used in a rotary machine and comprises a seal fitted over its whole length along an edge of a wall, which is parallel to the axis of rotation of the cylinder, and the wall is shifted toward the cylinder by a pressing arrangement so as to enable the seal to be applied against the cylinder. Specifically, the seal has the shape of at least one lengthwise brush with the bristles, which consist of a relatively flexible and heat-resistant material, which is preferably a synthetic material.

Abstract: A device for cutting and/or slitting travelling webs or sheet-like board material includes a pair of coacting rotary circular knives mounted on each side of the path of the web with the two peripheral cutting edges being in contact with one another. The device includes the use of a flat spring to provide an arrangement for biasing one knife against the other knife in the axial direction to provide the desired elastic pretension therebetween.

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.

Abstract: Fluted roller for a single face corrugator comprising grooves extending around the periphery thereof, the bottom of the grooves being deeper than the bottoms of the corrugation of the fluted roller, wherein the grooves extend at an angle unlike 90.degree. to a surface line of the roller running parallel to the axis thereof.

Abstract: Knife shaft pair for cutting web-like material, in particular undulated board, wherein the knives contact each other temporarily under bias, if necessary, shortly before termination of the cutting operation, the cutting edge lying at the trailing side of a first knife being formed in a manner known per se so as to be uniformly continuous with an equal spacing from the shaft axis, the other knife having a saw-toothed cutting edge whose teeth extend, commencing from the continuous line of contact with the first knife, away from the shaft of the second knife and in the approximation region of the knives at an acute angle to the connecting plane between the line of contact and the uniform cutting edge such that they lie at the trailing or the leading side of the first side during the cutting operation.

Abstract: Cross-cutter for cutting web material, in particular corrugated cardboard, comprising a pair of knife shafts which are tubularly supported for rotation on a core secured in the machine frame and commonly driven by a drive means, the knives temporarily contacting each other during the cutting operation under bias, if necessary, at least one end of at least one core having associated therewith a power unit which produces a flexural moment at the core such that the knives abut against each other under bias during the contact.

Abstract: A cutting or grooving device for paper or cardboard webs, comprising at least two rotatably driven shafts having at least one tool carrier for a cutting or grooving tool arranged thereon, the tool carrier having at least one radially movable chuck adapted to be brought into engagement with the shaft, and an actuating device for the chuck adapted to be controlled from outside the shaft, the chuck being actuable magnetically via a current supply.

Abstract: Apparatus for stacking of corrugated cardboard sheets on at least two stacks disposed adjacent each other in a stacker included in a corrugator, wherein a slitter scorer, first conveying means, cut-off means, second conveying means and a stacker are located each behind the other in conveying direction, characterized in that at least one applying means is located above the first conveying means, said applying means being supported for movement transverse to the conveying direction and said applying means being adapted to apply adhesive strips, self-adhering paper strips or the like to adjacent webs.

Abstract: A one-sided corrugated cardboard machine comprising a machine stand with two fluted rollers in meshing engagement with each other and an auxiliary roller rotatably supported therein, the axes of said rollers being disposed approximately in a common plane preferably inclined towards the vertical, with the machine stand being supported at the underground on one side of the plane, and members cooperating with the roller pack such as deviation rollers, guide plates, scrapers for the pressure roller, and the like, being supported in a stand section on the other side of the plane, said section being a rigid frame spanning the roller pack and which is detachably yet fixedly connectible to the machine stand.