Patent ID: 6883409
Filing Date: 2005-04-26
Classification: B65H,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for cross-cutting a cardboard web, comprising: a web feeder for feeding a cardboard web to the apparatus; a cross-cutter device positioned to receive said web from said feeder and provided with two blade drums having transverse blades for shearing said web across a width thereof into a succession of sheets; and a sheet transport device downstream of said cross-cutter device in a direction of displacement of said web and said sheets and including: a deflector for selectively deflecting a sheet to be discharged into said discharge gate; a further conveyor for displacing said shingled series of sheets in said direction of displacement; and a carriage shiftable in said direction of displacement, said lower belt conveyor, said brake and said deflector being mounted on said carriage, and a piston-and-cylinder unit connected with said carriage for displacing said carriage between an operating position close to said cross-cutter device and another position spaced away from said cross-cutter device.