Patent ID: 6419079
Filing Date: 2002-07-16
Classification: B31B,B65H

Abstract:
A blank transporter for conveying box blanks through a collapsible-box gluing machine, said blank transporter comprising:a roller cheek extending parallel to a direction of displacement of said blanks, below said blanks and along a transport path of said blanks through a collapsible-box gluing machine; a lower conveyor belt supported on said roller cheek for supporting said blanks; a roller rail above said transport path, said roller cheek and said roller rail being displaceable transversely to said direction; an upper conveyor belt above said path supported on said roller rail; and an endless element extending in a lower double-strand loop lying below said transport path, a double-strand loop lying above said transport path and an upper double strand connecting said loops at a side of said path, said double strands of said loops being freely movable in respective longitudinal directions, one strand of said lower loop being rigidly connected to said cheek and one strand of said upper loop being securely clamped to said roller rail so that the roller rail is entrained during a transverse displacement of said roller cheek.