Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100122638 | Flexographic Printing Apparatus And Method - A flexographic printing apparatus and method utilize a support platform attached to a printer frame and four bearing support carriages attached to the support platform for operatively supporting opposite ends of a plate roll and an anilox roll. One plate roll carriage and one anilox roll carriage are operatively attached to the support platform along each opposite side of the support platform by a common linear guide arrangement. The plate roll carriages are positioned along the linear guide arrangements by two plate roll linear positioners operatively attached between the support plate. The anilox carriages are positioned along the linear guide arrangements with respect to the plate roll carriages by a pair of anilox roll linear positioners operatively attached between the plate roll and anilox roll carriages. The support platform is also transversely movable with respect to the printer frame for lateral registration. | 05-20-2010 |
20100261594 | RESILIENT TUCKER ELEMENT FOR INTERFOLDER FOLDING ROLLS - A method and apparatus are provided for facilitating folding of material fed through a nip between two folding rolls having a tucker on one roll and a corresponding gripper on the other roll, by using a resilient tucker element having a tip that is moveable from a neutral position thereof, through elastic deformation of at least a portion of a body of the tucker element, for directing a portion of the material into the gripper. The resilient tucker element may have a tucker body formed at least partially of elastically resilient material fixedly attached at a proximal end thereof to the other roll. A portion of a distal end of the resilient tucker element may be wedge-like and have vacuum ports extending at least partially into the wedge-like portion, for securing an end of a sheet of material being fed through the nip between the folding rolls. | 10-14-2010 |
20110154782 | HIGH SPEED INTERFOLDER SEPARATOR - An interfolder separator apparatus and method utilize a pair of count fingers that are movable longitudinally along and transversely to a stream of folded sheets, for temporarily supporting each successive pack formed by the separator and then releasing each successive pack when partly completed to alternating build fingers, so that the operation of separating successive packs from one another is performed separately from the operations of completing the build of each pack and transporting the completed packs to downstream operations. The count fingers may be mounted to pivot about axes that are movable longitudinally along and transversely to the stream of sheets. A first or last panel of the completed pack may also be folded back partly upon itself, after the partly completed pack is released by the count fingers. Some or all of the fingers may be spring loaded and automatically resettable for clearing jams. | 06-30-2011 |
20110158782 | HIGH SPEED INTERFOLDER SEPARATOR - An interfolder separator apparatus and method utilize a pair of count fingers that are movable longitudinally along and transversely to a stream of folded sheets, for temporarily supporting each successive pack formed by the separator and then releasing each successive pack when partly completed to alternating build fingers, so that the operation of separating successive packs from one another is performed separately from the operations of completing the build of each pack and transporting the completed packs to downstream operations. The count fingers may be mounted to pivot about axes that are movable longitudinally along and transversely to the stream of sheets. A first or last panel of the completed pack may also be folded back partly upon itself, after the partly completed pack is released by the count fingers. Some or all of the fingers may be spring loaded and automatically resettable for clearing jams. | 06-30-2011 |
20120163944 | HIGH SPEED INTERFOLDED LOG ACCUMULATOR - A log accumulator comprising a plurality of buckets, a feed arrangement and a transport system and methods are provided. The feed arrangement loads logs onto the buckets. The transport system transports the buckets past the feed arrangement for loading of the buckets. The transport system and the feed arrangement are configured to maintain the feed arrangement in a fixed relative position with one of the buckets for an extended period of time while the feed arrangement loads the one of the buckets. The accumulator may include an unload arrangement that operates to unload logs in substantially the same manner as the feed arrangement. | 06-28-2012 |
20120167527 | BULK PACK NAPKIN SEPARATOR - A bulk pack napkin separator and method utilize various combinations of simultaneous compression of several bulk packs and various forms of bulk pack accumulators for improving speed and functionality of the separator. | 07-05-2012 |
20120201643 | SMALL AND BULK PACK NAPKIN SEPARATOR - An apparatus and method are provided, for alternatively producing either small or bulk packs of napkins from a stack of folded napkins produced by one folding machine, through use of a pack dispatching arrangement having an inlet, a small pack transfer station and a bulk pack transfer station, and configured for operation in a small pack mode for dispatching a stream of spaced apart small packs of folded sheets separated from the stack of folded sheets, and received at an inlet of the pack dispatching arrangement, to the small pack transfer station, and alternatively operable in a bulk pack mode for dispatching a stream of spaced apart bulk packs of folded sheets separated from the stack of folded sheets, and received at an inlet of the pack dispatching arrangement, to the bulk pack transfer station. | 08-09-2012 |
20120280444 | HIGH SPEED INTERFOLDER SEPARATOR - An interfolder separator apparatus and method utilize a pair of count fingers that are movable longitudinally along and transversely to a stream of folded sheets, for temporarily supporting each successive pack formed by the separator and then releasing each successive pack when partly completed to alternating build fingers, so that the operation of separating successive packs from one another is performed separately from the operations of completing the build of each pack and transporting the completed packs to downstream operations. The count fingers may be mounted to pivot about axes that are movable longitudinally along and transversely to the stream of sheets. A first or last panel of the completed pack may also be folded back partly upon itself, after the partly completed pack is released by the count fingers. Some or all of the fingers may be spring loaded and automatically resettable for clearing jams. | 11-08-2012 |
20120326377 | HIGH SPEED INTERFOLDER SEPARATOR - An interfolder separator apparatus and method utilize a pair of count fingers that are movable longitudinally along and transversely to a stream of folded sheets, for temporarily supporting each successive pack formed by the separator and then releasing each successive pack when partly completed to alternating build fingers, so that the operation of separating successive packs from one another is performed separately from the operations of completing the build of each pack and transporting the completed packs to downstream operations. The count fingers may be mounted to pivot about axes that are movable longitudinally along and transversely to the stream of sheets. A first or last panel of the completed pack may also be folded back partly upon itself, after the partly completed pack is released by the count fingers. Some or all of the fingers may be spring loaded and automatically resettable for clearing jams. | 12-27-2012 |
20130248325 | HIGH SPEED SMALL PACK WRAPPER - A system for forming and wrapping a plurality of stacks of sheet like product is provided. The system includes a separator apparatus for converting a stream of spaced apart sets of stacks into a repeating stepped configuration. The system includes a mechanism for merging the stepped configuration of stacks into a single file stream of stacks. The system includes a cutoff apparatus for cutting a plastic sleeve in which the stacks are wrapped. The system includes a turner apparatus for changing the direction of travel of individual units comprising of a stack of product within a length of the sleeve 90 degrees while maintaining the orientation of the units. | 09-26-2013 |
20150078876 | PACK ALIGNMENT APPARATUS AND METHODS USING LINEAR MOTOR - A system for forming and wrapping a plurality of stacks of sheet-like product is provided. The system includes a stack aligner for squaring up leading and trailing ends of the stack as well as sides of the stacks is provided. The stack aligner is also configured for controlling the position of the stacks along the stack travel path such that the stacks exit the stack aligner with tight positional tolerances for being fed to the stack wrapping arrangement. | 03-19-2015 |