Abstract: An alignment device for alignment of cardboard and corrugated cardboard sheets as they enter a processing machine. The device includes a lateral alignment member which works strongly with a stop and includes a parallelogram arrangement for mounting a pushing member to move in a linear path to push a sheet against the stop. The stop is provided with a brush and a free-moving omni-directional roller to frictionally grip a blank as it is moved against the stop, the brush and roller are mounted on a movable lever. Movement of the lever as well as movement of the pushing member are both controlled by different cams which are set to have the desired alignment followed by a release of the blank occur in the desired sequence.

Abstract: A press having a frame with a fixed platen and a drive mechanism including two pairs of aligned crank shaft assemblies each having a bearing housing rotatably supporting an eccentric shaft with a connecting rod coupled to a movable platen to shift the platen relative to the fixed platen characterized by an adjusting device for each bearing housing which device can both independent and simultaneously adjust the distance of the bearing housing of each crank shaft assembly relative to the fixed platen to enable correcting orientation of the movable platen and to adjust the force and pressure of the press. In one embodiment of the adjustment mechanism, a pair of members having inclined planes are utilized. In another embodiment, a threaded shaft having a worm gear threaded thereon along with a pair of nuts is utilized for adjusting the position of the bearing housing relative to the fixed platen.

Abstract: A clutch or coupling device for interconnecting a drive shaft to an axially aligned driven shaft which supports drive sprockets for chain belt conveyor of a press characterized by a disk member connected to the drive shaft for rotation therewith and having a plurality of recesses which have converging planar side walls and are circumferentially spaced on a circle coaxial with the axis of the drive shaft to receive circumferentially spaced dogs which have slanting plane surfaces extending substantially parallel to the side walls of the grooves and are mounted on a flange member which is connected by a mounting device to the driven shaft.