CA2331397A1 - Cross-cutting apparatus and method for a web-like material, as well as sheet cutter - Google Patents

Cross-cutting apparatus and method for a web-like material, as well as sheet cutter Download PDF

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CA2331397A1
CA2331397A1 CA002331397A CA2331397A CA2331397A1 CA 2331397 A1 CA2331397 A1 CA 2331397A1 CA 002331397 A CA002331397 A CA 002331397A CA 2331397 A CA2331397 A CA 2331397A CA 2331397 A1 CA2331397 A1 CA 2331397A1
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
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    • B26D1/34Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member or particular materials not otherwise provided for; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a cutting member moving about an axis with a non-circular cutting member moving about an axis parallel to the line of cut
    • B26D1/36Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member or particular materials not otherwise provided for; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a cutting member moving about an axis with a non-circular cutting member moving about an axis parallel to the line of cut and rotating continuously in one direction during cutting, e.g. mounted on a rotary cylinder
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
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    • B26D1/01Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member or particular materials not otherwise provided for; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work
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    • B26D1/34Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member or particular materials not otherwise provided for; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a cutting member moving about an axis with a non-circular cutting member moving about an axis parallel to the line of cut
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    • B26D1/405Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member or particular materials not otherwise provided for; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a cutting member moving about an axis with a non-circular cutting member moving about an axis parallel to the line of cut and coacting with a rotary member for thin material, e.g. for sheets, strips or the like
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
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    • B26D1/01Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member or particular materials not otherwise provided for; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work
    • B26D1/12Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member or particular materials not otherwise provided for; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a cutting member moving about an axis
    • B26D1/25Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member or particular materials not otherwise provided for; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a cutting member moving about an axis with a non-circular cutting member
    • B26D1/34Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member or particular materials not otherwise provided for; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a cutting member moving about an axis with a non-circular cutting member moving about an axis parallel to the line of cut
    • B26D1/42Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member or particular materials not otherwise provided for; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a cutting member moving about an axis with a non-circular cutting member moving about an axis parallel to the line of cut and slidably mounted in a rotary member
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26DCUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
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    • B26D1/56Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member or particular materials not otherwise provided for; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which travels with the work otherwise than in the direction of the cut, i.e. flying cutter
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    • B26D1/626Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member or particular materials not otherwise provided for; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which travels with the work otherwise than in the direction of the cut, i.e. flying cutter and is rotating about an axis parallel to the line of cut, e.g. mounted on a rotary cylinder for thin material, e.g. for sheets, strips or the like
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26DCUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
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    • B26HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
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Abstract

The invention relates to a continuous cross-cutting apparatus for a web-like material (4), such as a web of pulp or alike, comprising means (1, 3) for maintaining the web (4) in a tensioned condition at the moment of cutting, a web-supporting assembly (2) and at least one web-piercing blade element (5) on the opposite side of the web, said assembly (2) comprising at least one arrangement (6) for enabling a piercing action of the blade element (5) through the web (4). The invention also relates to a method for the continuo us cutting of a web (4), wherein said web (4) is maintained in a tensioned condition and pierced in cross-machine direction with a blade element (5) in one or more operations at the location of the supported web. Furthermore, th e invention relates to a continuous sheet cutter unit in a pulp-drying machine , wherein a cross-cutting device (2) for cutting separate webs into sheets corresponds to the above-described cross-cutting apparatus.

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WO 99/57050 PC'T/FI99/00271 Cross-cutting apparatus and method~for a web-like material, as well as sheet cutter The present invention relates to a cross-cutting apparatus for a web-like mate-s rial, such as a pulp or paper web, as well as to a cross-cutting method.
Further-more, the invention relates to a sheet cutting unit.
In prior art cross-cutting mechanisms used in a pulp-drying machine, the cut-ting process is based on a rotating cross-cutting blade and a solid counter-blade. The aim is to produce a neat cutting trace. A goad cutting result requires permanently sharp blades and a controlled blade clearance. As the machines' sizes keep increasing, specially their width, the control of a btade clearance becomes increasingly difficult, perhaps even impossible. In any event, a techni cal solution will be very expensive in currently available equipment involving a rotary cutting blade and a counter-blade. At the point of cutting, a pulp web is subjected to a compression between the blades before the web is severed. In such a cutting operation, the edge areas of a sheet experience contraction of the pulp material and develop material lumps ("fish-eyes"). Such material lumps are not desirable in view of the further processing of a pulp sheet, whereas the cutting results itself need not be particularly good since, after all, the severed pulp sheet will be processed further.
An object of the present invention is to provide an enhanced cross-cutting apparatus for a pulp web, which will also be simpler and more effective than currently available equipment in terms of its operation and maintenance.
The basic conception in an apparatus and method of the invention is that it comprises means for maintaining a web tension at a cutting point as well as a blade assembly capable of piercing a web for cutting the same.
An apparatus of the invention is characterized in that the apparatus comprises at least - means (1, 3) for maintaining the tension of a web (4) at the cutting moment, as well as - an assembly capable of crosswise cutting the web, comprising - at least a web-supporting assembly (2) on one side of the web (4}, and - at least one web-piercing blade element (5) on the essentially opposite side thereof, wherein said web-supporting assembly (2) includes at least one arrangement (6) for allowing the piercing action of the blade element (5) to extend through the web (4) in such a way that it is simultaneously supported in the vicinity of a piercing area.
In a preferred embodiment, the apparatus comprises two pairs of web-tensioning rotating rolls spaced from each other in the web running direction, as well as there between a pair of rotating cross-cutting rolls, the web being guided through said pairs of rolls, and that one of the cutting rolls is provided with at least one web-piercing blade element extending from the circumferential roll surface and one of the web-supporting rolls has its circumferential surface provided with at least one groove or slot in cooperation with said blade ele-ment.
In a further embodiment of the invention the upstream pair of drawing rolls has a speed of rotation which is lower than that of the downstream pair of drawing rolls.
An apparatus of the invention is based on the piercing of a web, not cutting it.
A requirement for piercing is that the web be tensioned at the point of piercing for driving the piercing blade easily into and through the web.
With regard to conventional equipment provided with rotary cutting blades and counter blades, the apparatus of the invention is less noisy and, furthermore, the apparatus can be designed by using lighter, thin-walled rolls or cylinders.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the blade element or elements are included in an upper cutting roll and the groove or grooves respectively in a lower cutting roll.
The construction of rolls used in a recommended embodiment can be designed in such a way that the web-supporting frame of a cutting roll is provided with circumferential grooves and, respectively, the circumferential surface of a roll thereabove is provided with piercing blades matching the grooves.
Another advantage gained by the invention is that, if necessary, the number of blades can be increased, such number being generally 1-4. The counter-roll can be provided with a corresponding number of grooves or a single groove, a speed difference between the rolls being used for bringing the piercing blade to always find a groove present on the frame.
The above-described continuously rotating roll can also be replaced by using a linkage performing 'a reciprocating action. This type of solution can be imple-mented e.g. in such a way that on one side of a web (either above or below) is a continuously rotating roll provided with a piercing blade and a piercing slot is included in a linkage functioning as a counterpart for the roll and having an arched top surface which is provided with a crosswise slot over the length of the piercing blade, which is able to receive the blade in a pierce-cut operation.
At its simplest, the linkage may operate in such a manner that the blade of roll of a rotating blade roll "drives" the linkage. Pulled by the blade roll, the linkage swings from a start position to set against a cushion while the cut-through takes place. After the cutting, the linkage returns to its start position, e.g. by means of a spring force. A blade bar can also be constructed by using a similar linkage, whereby both the blade bar and a counter-bar take the form of recipro-Gating linkages.
In embodiments with several blades, the blades can be adapted to be retract-able, whereby it is readily possible to use one and the same apparatus for running sheets of various sizes. These may be necessary if, for example, it is desirable to wrap a pulp bale in the same pulp as the contents of the bale, the cutter of the invention being readily capable of running bale wrappers (=
larger sheets) by retracting some of the blades, even while the machine is running.
In the construction of the invention, it is not necessary to undertake a blade adjustment, which is a major practical advantage. The replacement of a blade in a pulp mill may take up to six hours and such a blade has an operating life from about 3 months to 1 year, depending on how much it is used.
The invention relates also to a method for the continuous-action cutting of a web-like material, such as a web of pulp or the like. This method is character-ized in that the web is maintained in a tensioned condition and pierced cross-wise of the web with a blade element in one or more operations at the same point of the web, and that the web is supported during the piercing process at the point of piercing in such a way that the blade element is able to penetrate through the web essentially throughout its cross machine direction.
In the method, the tension of a web is maintained in such a way that the pierc-ing blade does not alter the main running direction of the web.
Furthermore, the invention relates to a continuous working sheet cutter unit in a pulp-drying machine, comprising at least - a slitter mechanism for a pulp web for cutting it in a number of laterally adjusted slitting devices into separate longitudinal webs, - a pair of drawing rolls or the like for maintaining in the dryer section a de-sired web tightness and for drawing the web, - a cross-cutting device for cutting the separate webs into sheets, - an overlapping device for sheets, wherein the sheets are overlapped for reducing the speed of the pulp web, as well as - a bale table or the like for stacking the sheets thereon to produce bales.
This sheet cutter unit is characterized in that the cross-cutting device, in which the separate webs are cut into sheets, comprises at least - a web-supporting assembly on one side of the web, - a web-piercing blade element on the essentially opposite side thereof, the web-supporting assembly comprising an arrangement for allowing a piercing action of the blade element to extend through the web while simul-taneously supporting it in the operative vicinity of a piercing location, - an assembly for adjusting/setting the web to a predetermined tension at the web cutting moment.
The invention will now be described in more detail with reference made to the 5 accompanying drawings, in which fig. 1 shows an apparatus of the invention in one embodiment, figs. 2 and 3 show a second preferred embodiment of the invention, fig. 4 shows a further embodiment of the invention, wherein one of the blades is retractable, fig. 5 shows a solution of the invention, wherein the cutting of a web is per-formed in two separate operations, figs. 6 and 7 show details of fig. 5 embodiment, and fig. 8 shows a sheet cutter unit of the invention.
The apparatus of the invention is based on the fact that a web is not cut with a blade, but a web is pierced, the requirement of which is that the web is tensioned at the moment and area of piercing.
Fig. 1 depicts a fundamental solution for such an apparatus of the invention.
In the running direction of a pulp web 4 there are two spaced-apart pairs of rolls 1 and 3, the web 4 being guided therethrough. The downstream pair rolls 3 has a rotating speed which is higher than that of the first pair of rolls 1, the web 4 becoming tighter between these pairs of rolls.
Between the pars of rolls 1 and 3 is fitted a second pair of rolls 2, wherein the upper roll has its outer frame provided with a piercing blade 5 extending from the frame. The lower roll 2, which supports the web 4, is provided with a cir-cumferential recess 6 which is in cooperation with the piercing blade 5 of the upper roll in such a way that, as the upper roll is rotating, the piercing means 5 and the recess 6 coincide with each other at the web, the piercing means 5 penetrating into the web and piercing the same.
Fig. 1 illustrates just one piercing means 5, but the number can be increased as the case may be, the practical number of blades being 1-4 as illustrated in fig. 4. Respectively, the lower roll 2 can be provided with an equivalent number of counter-grooves 6 for the piercing means 5.
Figs. 2 and 3 illustrate an embodiment of the invention, wherein a web passes through between a roll provided with a blade 5 and a back-up element 11 set therebelow and provided with a web-supporting bearing surface. In this em-bodiment, the bearing surface is not constituted by a roll but, instead, by the link-shaped back-up element 11, having its peripheral surface provided with a groove 6 in cooperation with the blade 5. At its base, the back-up element 11 is hinged to a support assembly and operates reciprocally along a path defined by two limiters 12.
In fig. 2, the back-up element 11 is in its start position against a left-hand cush ion member 12 , in which position the overhead blade 5 coincides with the groove 6 present in the bearing surface upon pressing through a web 4.
As the roll 2 is rotating, the back-up element 11 turns along with the blade 5 and is released therefrom, as shown in fig. 3, as the back-up element comes into contact with the right-hand limiter 12. In this position, a spring 13 pulls the back-up element 11 back to the start position.
In the embodiment shown in figs. 2 and 3, the link-shaped back-up element 11 operates continuously, being driven by the rotating overhead roll. It is also possible that such a linkage can be operated mechanically.
Fig. 4 depicts one embodiment in reference to four crosswise blades. One of the full-width blades 5 is positioned in a groove-like recess, having such a WO 99/57050 PC'T/FI99/00271 depth that the blade 5 can be fully retracted within the recess. The blade 5 is adapted to be movable in and out in contact with guide surFaces. In this em-bodiment, the actuator is constituted by a number of electrically controlled solenoids 25, capable of retracting the blade even while the machine is run-s ning, if this is desirable. The loading is effected for example by means of a spring, which normally maintains the blade extended as the web is pierced.
The actuator, such as the solenoids 25, is sufficiently powerful for retracting the blade against the spring load. The blades are typically maintained extended but, in special circumstances, the solution of the invention can be readily switched for running sheets of a different size, such as bale wrapping sheets.
By way of a transfer path extending through a shaft the actuator (actuators) is connected to a control unit for controlling the position of blades.
Figs. 5-7 illustrate an embodiment of the invention, wherein a web is cross-cut in several sequences. This is shown schematically in fig. 5.
Fig. 6 shows the point of piercing in a view transversal to the running direction of a web 4. The apparatus is provided with a back-up plate 7 for the web 4.
The back-up plate 7 constitutes an opening or a recess 6 at the point of pierc-ing, wherein a web-supporting roll 2 is able to make a contact with the web.
The roll 2 is provided with circumferentially extending grooves 10, which corre-spond to the transversal groove 6 in the surface of the roll 2 shown in fig:
1.
The circumferentially extending grooves are parallel to each other and corre-spond in number to the number of piercing blades 5 included in the overhead roll.
The piercing blades can be positioned in a number of rows spaced from each other in the running direction of the web. The embodiment shown in figs. 5-7 includes blade arrays 5, 50 which are set in two successive rows (fig. 5) in line with the longitudinal axis of the overhead roll. In line with the blades 5, 50 and below the web 4 there are back-up rolls 2, 20, respectively.
The blade position can be adjusted by means of an adjustment and fastening screw 9 extending through a slot 8. Likewise, the blade is quite easy to replace.
The blade wears very little and, thus, it is very seldom that the blade must be replaced.
Fig. 7 illustrates the embodiment of fig. 6 as seen in the web running direction.
Fig. 7 depicts a slotted design of the lower roll and the positioning of the pierc-ing blades 5, 50 in line with grooves 10 extending around the circumference thereof. Depending on the width of a web, the number of blades can be 1-4.
The continuous sheet cutter unit of the invention, used in a pulp-drying ma-chine and shown schematically in fig. 8, comprises a tail feed device 14 for a pulp web 4, which is preferably mounted in connection with the cutter unit and to which the web is delivered from a dryer section. Normally the web merely runs past the tail feed device, which is not needed except in a feed situation.
Subsequently, in a cutter unit of the invention, the web 4 is advanced to a slitter assembly 15 for slitting the same with a number of laterally mounted slitting devices into separate longitudinal webs. The slitting width is determined ac-cording to what is desirable in a particular type of slitting. After the slitting, the separate webs are carried further to a pair of drawing rolls 1, which maintains over a dryer section a desired web tension and draws the web (at this point, slit separate webs). From the pair of drawing rolls 1 the longitudinally slit separate webs are fed to a cross-cutting piercing device 2 of the invention for cutting the separate webs into sheets by piercing in accordance with the invention.
The cross-cutting piercing device of the invention for cutting separate webs into sheets comprises at least a web-supporting assembly 2 on one side of a web 4, a web-piercing blade element 5 on the essentially opposite side thereof, said web-supporting assembly 2 comprising an arrangement 6 for allowing a piercing action of the blade element to extend through the web 4 while support-ing the same in the functional vicinity of the piercing area, as well as a mecha-nism 20 for adjusting/setting the web to a predetermined tension at the mo-ment of cutting the web.
According to the invention, downstream of the piercing-cutting unit 2 is a sec-ond pair of drawing rolls 3 for maintaining a desired tension in the cross-cutting apparatus as well as for guiding cut sheets 16 further, if necessary in an over-lapping fashion, onto a bale table, whereby it is also possible to use a separate set of drawing rolls 17 for overlapping. When a reject gate/gates 19 in connec-tion with the pair of drawing rolls 3 are closed, the sheets 16 runs forward in the process over a normal path to the support rolls of a sheet conveyor and further onto a bale table 18.
The continuous sheet cutter unit of the invention used in a pulp-drying machine is capable of eliminating several drawbacks existing in the prior art architecture.
The use of a sheet cutter unit of the invention entails, for example, that it is not necessary to build a complicated temperature stabilizing unit for the counter-blade, which means savings in terms of space, energy, as well as investment costs. The sheet cutter unit of the invention is also significantly less noisy than the prior art solutions. There is more freedom in designing a sheet cutter unit of the invention, as it does not require a downward path run to the cutter, which is the case in the prior art solution.

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1. A cross-cutting apparatus for a web-like material (4), such as a pulp web or alike, said apparatus comprising at least - means (1, 3) for maintaining the tension of the web (4) at a cutting moment, as well as - an assembly capable of a crosswise cutting of the web, comprising at least a web-supporting assembly (2) on that side of the web (4) which is opposite to a blade, characterized in that - at least one web-piercing blade element (5) on the essentially opposite to the web-supporting assembly (2), wherein said web-supporting assembly (2) includes at least one arrangement (6) for allowing the piercing action of the blade element (5) to extend through the web (4) in such a way that it is simultaneously supported in the vicinity of a piercing area.
2. An apparatus as set forth in claim 1, characterized in that the apparatus comprises two pairs (1, 3) of web-tensioning rotating rolls spaced from each other in the running direction of the web (4), as well as therebetween a pair (2) of rotating cross-cutting rolls, the web being fed between the rolls of said roll pairs, and that one of the cutting rolls (2) is provided with at least one web-piercing blade element (5) extending from the roll surface and one of the web-supporting rolls has its surface provided with at least one groove or slot (6) in cooperation with said blade element (5).
3. A cross-cutting apparatus as set forth in claim 2, characterized in that the the upstream pair (1) of drawing rolls has a speed of rotation which is lower than that of the downstream pair (3) of drawing rolls.
4. A cross-cutting apparatus as set forth in claim 2 or 3, characterized in that the blade element or elements (5) are included in the upper cutting roll and the groove or grooves (6) respectively in the lower cutting roll.
5. A cross-cutting apparatus as set forth in claim 4, characterized in that the web-supporting cutting roil frame is provided with circumferentially extending grooves (10) and, respectively, the circumference of the roll thereabove is provided with the piercing blades (5) matching the grooves.
6. A cross-cutting apparatus as set forth in any of claims 1-5, characterized in that the number of grooves (6, 10) and, respectively, that of piercing blades (5) is 1-4.
7. An apparatus as set forth in any of the preceding claims, characterized in that the apparatus comprises a number of successive arrangements consisting of an assembly (2, 20) supporting the web (4) and a blade element (5, 50) piercing the web (4), such that each arrangement of a web-supporting assembly and a web-piercing blade element cross-cuts alone just part of the web in cross-machine direction but the arrangements result in a full-width crosscutting.
8. An apparatus as set forth in claim 1, characterized in that the web-supporting assembly (2) comprises a linkage mechanism (11) which includes a bearing surface, extending in cross-machine direction of the web (4) and being provided with a groove system (6), said linkage mechanism (11) being supported (12, 13) in a fashion that enables a reciprocating action.
9. An apparatus as set forth in any of the preceding claims, characterized in that there is a clearance between the piercing blade (5) and the bearing surface of the support system (2, 11).
10. An apparatus as set forth in claim 9, characterized in that a non-cutting clearance is provided between the piercing blade (5) and the bearing surface of the support mechanism (11).
11. An apparatus as set forth in any of the preceding claims, characterized in that there are a number of blade elements (5, 50) and at least one is retractable.
12. A method for a continuously cutting of a web-like material (4), such as a web of pulp or the like, characterized in that the web (4) is maintained in a tensioned condition and pierced in cross-machine direction with a blade element (5) in one or more stages at the same location of the web, and that the web is supported during the piercing process at the piercing location in such a way that the piercing blade element (5) is able to penetrate through the web (4) essentially throughout its cross-machine dimension.
13. A method as set forth in claim 12, characterized in that the web (4) is maintained in a tensioned condition in such a way that the piercing blade (5) does not alter the main running direction of the web.
14. A continuous sheet cutter unit in a pulp-drying machine, comprising at least - a slitter mechanism for a pulp web for cutting it in a number of laterally adjusted slitting devices (15) into separate longitudinal webs, - a pair (1, 3) of drawing rolls or the like for maintaining over a dryer section a desired web tightness and for drawing a web (4), - a cross-cutting device (2) for cutting the separate webs into sheets (16), comprising an assembly (2) on the other side of the web for supporting the web (4), - an overlapping device (17) for sheets, wherein the sheets are overlapped for reducing the speed of the pulp web, as well as - a bale table (18) or the like for stacking the sheets (16) thereon to produce bales, characterized in that - the cross-cutting device, in which the separate webs are cut into the sheets (16), comprises at least - a web-piercing blade element (5) on the essentially opposite side in relation to the assembly supporting the web (4), the web-supporting assembly comprising an arrangement (6) for allowing a piercing action of the blade element (5) to extend through the web simultaneously supporting it in the functional vicinity of a piercing location, - an assembly (20) for adjusting/setting the web (4) to a predetermined tension at the web cutting moment.
15. A continuous-action sheet cutter unit in a pulp-drying machine as set forth in claim 13, characterized in that it comprises the assembly (20) for adjusting/setting a speed difference between the pair (1, 3) of drawing rolls and the overlapping device (17) for the sheets (16) and/or a moment therebetween so as to establish a predetermined tension at the moment of cutting.
16. A continuous sheet cutter unit in a pulp-drying machine as set forth in claim 14 or 15, characterized in that the assembly (20) for adjusting/setting the web (4) to a predetermined tension at the moment of cutting the web comprises a second pair (3) of drawing rolls downstream of the pierce-cutter unit for maintaining a desired tension in the cross-cutting device as well as for guiding the cut sheet forward.
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