Patent ID: 8926486
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: B31B,B44B

Abstract:
1. A device for holding tools for processing flat, sheet-shaped material in a sheet-processing machine, folding carton gluer, folding machine or cover feeder, the device comprising: a right-hand frame wall and a left-hand frame wall; cross members interconnecting said right-hand and left-hand frame walls; universal holding cylinders; bottom tool units and top tool units for processing a blank moving in a blank running direction, said tool units having at least one of a die cutting tool, an embossing tool, a cutting tool or a creasing tool, and at least one of said tool units having a respective top tool or bottom tool fastened to a respective one of said universal holding cylinders; a bottom tool holding device for said bottom tool units and a top tool holding device for said top tool units, said tool holding devices each having respective right-hand and left-hand side walls, respective top and bottom cross members and respective top and a bottom drive shafts; a plurality of said tool units being disposed on each respective one of said drive shafts, and each respective one of said tool units being configured to be positioned in a peripheral direction relative to others of said tool units; servomotors configured to drive said top and bottom drive shafts; said bottom cross member being fastened to said frame walls, said bottom drive shaft being fastened in said side walls of said bottom tool holding device, and said top cross member and said top drive shaft being fastened in said side walls of said top tool holding device; said top cross member and said bottom cross member having a profile configured for absorbing forces produced during the processing of the blank by said top and bottom tool units transversely to, in and perpendicular to the blank running direction; and a bottom tool guide element and a top tool guide element being configured for sliding lateral adjustment of said top tool units and said bottom tool units on said cross members.