US3314340A - Apparatus for use in the manufacture of boxes and the like - Google Patents

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US3314340A
US3314340A US404228A US40422864A US3314340A US 3314340 A US3314340 A US 3314340A US 404228 A US404228 A US 404228A US 40422864 A US40422864 A US 40422864A US 3314340 A US3314340 A US 3314340A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26F—PERFORATING; PUNCHING; CUTTING-OUT; STAMPING-OUT; SEVERING BY MEANS OTHER THAN CUTTING
    • B26F1/00—Perforating; Punching; Cutting-out; Stamping-out; Apparatus therefor
    • B26F1/38—Cutting-out; Stamping-out
    • B26F1/384—Cutting-out; Stamping-out using rotating drums
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
    • B26D1/00—Cutting 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
    • B26D1/01—Cutting 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
    • B26D1/12—Cutting 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
    • B26D1/14—Cutting 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 circular cutting member, e.g. disc cutter
    • B26D1/24—Cutting 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 circular cutting member, e.g. disc cutter coacting with another disc cutter
    • B26D1/245—Cutting 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 circular cutting member, e.g. disc cutter coacting with another disc cutter for thin material, e.g. for sheets, strips or the like

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  • This invention relates to appartus for use in the manufacture of boxes and the like particularly from board, i.e. relatively thick cardboard.
  • a box consisting essentially of a rectangular piece of board creased and slit appropriately, opposite end edges of the blanks are stitched or otherwise secured together to make a rectangular or square sectioned but open ended box, and then flaps are folded in to form the top and bottom of the box.
  • Maximum strength is achieved when the fiaps abut edge-toedge, but in practice this only occurs when the box is square in plan: otherwise two flaps meet edge-to-edge and the other two (at each end) are either spaced apart or overlap, depending upon the arrangement of the blank.
  • apparatus for use in the manufacture of boxes and the like comprises a first roll pair with butt-flap cutting means and bar-bender means for transversely creasing blanks fed through the pair, a second roll pair with slotting means for separating flaps one from the next along the blanks, said second pair being disposed after the said first roll pair, means for carrying out of the plane occupied by the remainder of the blank the cut-off pieces from the but-flaps as the blank proceeds through the apparatus.
  • the butt-flap cutting means are provided on the bar-bender rolls in advance of the actual bending (i.e. creasing) mechanism having regard to the synchronisation of the apparatus so that the firs-t operation on each blank is the formation of the cuts separating the pieces to be cut-off from the remainder of the flaps, although the separation does not occur until after the slotting rolls means in the second roll pair have cut in transversely from the edges of the blank, although for some purposes a separate creasing and/or cutting on the blanks may be done prior to the butt-flap cutting stage.
  • the actual bending i.e. creasing
  • the cutting means may comprise cutting rules held in slotted bars extending along the length of the bar-bending rolls and adjustable thereabout to permit variation in the dimensions between the ends of the blank and the lines of cut: variation in the length of cut may be achieved by substitution of different rules in the slots.
  • the rules may be embedded in a plastics pad adjustably mounted on the said rolls.
  • One particularly advantageous "ice form utilises rules with serrated edged rules adapted to co-operate with hard but resilient pads of for example polyurethane on the co-operating roll, so that these rules out completely through the board and embed in the pads to ensure thorough cutting. Rubber or like foamed plastics pads may surround the rules to give support to the blanks during feeding between the rolls nip, facilitate extraction from the cuts and prevent the board deflecting during retraction.
  • the means for carrying the cut-off pieces out of the plane of the blanks may comprise barbed or like spikes disposed adjacent the slotting knives or wheels so that the cut-off pieces are impaled and carried around the slotting rolls, a stripper blade or finger being arranged to strip the pieces from the spikes and allow them to drop, for example on a return conveyor.
  • separation is definite and positive and there is no risk of the pieces becoming lodged on the blanks, and interfering with subsequent operations; the pieces moreover do not tend to pile up and interfere with the apparatus.
  • high speed apparatus running for example at 12,000 blanks per hour, this is important to enable continuous running to take place.
  • FIGURE 1 is a diagrammatic view of board treating apparatus in accordance with the invention.
  • FIGURE 2 is a vertical elevation through one of the roll pairs shown in FIGURE 1;
  • FIGURE 3 is a fragmentary plan view of the apparatus and one blank.
  • FIGURE 3 a typical blank 10 for erection into a box is illustrated: prior to being fed through the apparatus the blank is rectangular and is of a length and width in the direction of and transversely of (respectively) arrow A equal to the overall dimensions of the finished blank. This is not essential but the following description is simplified by assuming this to be the case, and such variations as are introduced by using blanks longer in either dimension than the dimension of the finished blank will be obvious to those skilled in the art after reading the following specification.
  • the blank Prior to delivery to the apparatus, or at an earlier or later stage in the apparatus, the blank is creased along the four parallel chain-dot lines 11: this may be accomplished by suitable grooving rollers, or by passing the blank transversely of the direction of arrow A through a conventional bar-bender.
  • FIGURE 3 illustrates 'a blank which is part treated at one end and fully threated (insofar as this invention is concerned) at the other end.
  • the lines 11 represent the lines of folding when the blank is erected into a rectangular sectioned tube and the lines 14-21 the lines of separation between side flaps 22 and end fiaps 23 which are to be folded to make the base and top of the box.
  • the dimensions of the flaps are related to the dimensions of the box section in the manner shown, i.e. the wider box side-wall is 2y wide where y is the dimension of flap 23 from crease 12 to the free edge, so that 3 on butting the two flaps 23 at that end of the box the edges of these flaps will be in close juxtaposition.
  • the narrow dimension of the box is 2x when x is the dimension of flap 22 from crease to free edge.
  • the lower part of the blank substantially as shown in FIGURE 3 is not new per se and indeed corresponds to blanks produced in known apparatus by known methods which involve the steps of first rotary creasing to produce creases 11; secondly bar-bending to produce creases 12, 13; thirdly slotting along lines 14-21; and fourthly butt-flap cutting: each of these being accomplished by a separate roll pair and quite frequently with printing rolls interposed between the third and fourth stages so that quite essentially butt-flap cutting was the final stage.
  • the butt flap cutting per se i.e. the cuts along lines 24 is carried out in the same roll pair as performs the creasing of lines 12, 13, and essentially before the roll pair effecting slotting along lines 14-21.
  • This not only reduces the number of roll pairs (itself a significant saving in capital cost, running cost, maintenance cost, and space required) but has further advantages in enabling required tolerances or limits of accuracy to be maintained at high speeds: in part this is due to the fact that the dimensions x and y result from creases and cuts made in the same roll pair so that slip or the like between successive roll pairs is eliminated, and in part is due to performing these cuts early inthe' manufacturing cycle instead of late so that cumulative errors are ineffective. Further, removal of cut-ofi' pieces is more easily possible when the present invention is utilised as will subsequently become clear.
  • the apparatus is seen to include, essentially, two roll pairs 30, 31, the first of which provides butt-flap cutting and'bar-bending facilities and the second of which provides slotting and stripping facilities.
  • the roll pair 30 comprises a pair of cylinders of which the upper carries two female bar-bender tools 32, 33 and two male butt-flap cutting tools, i. e.rules 34, 35.
  • One bar bender tool is adjustable circumferentiallyto vary the spacing between creases 12, 13 (FIGURE 3) and each rule 34, 35 is adjustable circumferentially relative to its associated bar-bender tool.
  • the length of each cut 24 and its position along the axis of the roll pair is also adjustable after release of conventional clamping means. Areas of the roll adjacent the tools are covered with rubber blocks which are compresed in the nip and recover resiliently to strip the board blank from the tools.
  • the lower roll in FIGURE 2 carries male bar-bending possibly by securing them with adhesive but in the case of tools 36, 37 by an automatic gear which ensures that as one bar-bending female tool is moved relative to the other, the corresponding male tool is moved equally to maintain their synchronisation.
  • automatic gear is well known and is not relevant to this invention and therefore does not need description.
  • the leading end After the leading edge of the blank has passed through the roll pair 36, and preferably (where possible having regard to the length of the blank and the roll diameters) whilst the trailing end is still engaged in the roll pair 30, the leading end enters roll pair 31 where slots are cut along lines 14-21.
  • the slotter per se is well known and does not need separate description other than to say that it comprises pairs of male and female knives 39, 319 which are adjustable about the roll axes to suit the blank requirements. A number of sets of knives will be arranged along the roll axis, one set to cut each slot.
  • the roll may have blocks or pads 40, which co-operate to grip between them the pieces which are cut off when the slotter knives cut the edges of the flaps and pass through the butt-flap cut lines 24.
  • One of each pair of blocks carried (possibly barbed) spikes 41 which pierce the cut-off portions so as to carry them around the roll axis out of the plane of the blanks and over a stripper blade 42 which is fixed in relation to the apparatus and serves to hold the pieces whilst the spikes pull out, the pieces dropping to a conveyor 42 for removal.
  • Apparatus for use in the manufacture of boxes and the like comprising a first roll pair with butt-flap cutting means and bar-bender means for transversely creasing blanks fed through the pair, a second roll pair with slotting means for separating flaps one from the next along the blanks, said second roll pair being disposed after the said first roll pair, means-for carrying out of the plane occupied by the remainder of the blank the cut-off pieces from the butt-flaps as the blank proceeds through the apparatus.
  • a method of manufacturing boxes from board comprising producing blanks by creasing and cutting the board including the step of butt-flap cutting, characterised in that the butt-flap cutting is carried out before the slotting.

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US3771425A (en) * 1970-09-30 1973-11-13 M Matsuo Cardboard box blank and apparatus for making the same
US4715847A (en) * 1985-01-10 1987-12-29 Focke & Co. Process and apparatus for producing blanks for packs
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US4917665A (en) * 1987-06-16 1990-04-17 C. G. Bretting Manufacturing Co. Inc. Bedroll interfolding machinery improvement
US5002524A (en) * 1990-01-08 1991-03-26 The Langston Corporation Precrush tool for corrugated board slotter head
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US5552101A (en) * 1992-07-04 1996-09-03 Tdk Corporation Method for manufacturing plastic case
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