Improvements in Machines for Cutting and Grooving or Indenting Paste-board to be used for the Manufacture of Boxes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in Machines for Cutting and Grooving or Indenting
Paste-board to be used for the Manufacture of Boxes.
I, CARL ERNST PREUSSE, of Leipzig-Anger-Crottendorf, Kingdom of Saxony, German
Empire, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows.:-
Paste-board pieces intended for the manufacture of quadrangular and similar boxes
must be subjected to a preliminary treatment consisting in jogging or jumping said
pieces at the places where they are to be bent, and in cutting the same at the places
where they are to be formed the lugs that are to connect the sides of the box.
There are machines which effect the jogging or jumping as well as the cutting of
the paste-board pieces, or in which, in other words, the mechanisms for said jogging
or jumping are combined with those for said cutting. These last mentioned mechanisms
are known to every one versed in the art in question, and as to the mechanisms for
jogging or jumping the paste-board pieces I refer to my British Patent No. 4903/ 1896
in which a machine with such mechanisms is shown and described.
My present invention forms an improvement on the machine of said British patent,
and my invention consists in arranging the mechanism for effecting the cutting in
front of the mechanism for effecting the jogging or jumping, and in providing the
machine with a device for displacing the paste-board piece from the cutting-mechanism
to the jogging- or jumping-mechanism after it has been acted on by said first-
mentioned mechanism.
A piece of paste-board worked by my improved machine is represented in Figure 1
of the annexed drawing. The places where the paste-board is jogged or jumped are
indicated by the dotted lines a; the part al enclosed by said lines forms, of course,
either the bottom or the cover of the box, whereas the other or outer parts a² form
the sides of either the box proper or the cover for the same. Two of said other or
outer parts laying on opposite ends of the piece of paste-board are cut at at, these cuts
extending in the direction of the jogged or jumped places between the other two outer
parts and the inner part a¹. The ends of these two parts are thus turned into lugs a³
which afterwards serve for connecting the four outer parts a² with each other.
The piece of paste-board is first cut, and then jogged or jumped. To effect the
cutting the machine is provided with two knives e (Figures 2-4; only one of these
knives is to be seen in each of said figures, because the other knife is covered by that
shown) ; said knives are secured to slide: e¹ which are carried by, and may be
adjusted by aid of grooves of, a heavy traverse i. The latter is vertically movable,
and is guided by the head-pieces o' (Fig. 2) which 'form the uppermost parts of the
frame o of the machine. The traverse i is supported and operated by lever-like
plates u, into the oblique slots u¹ of which take pins that are secured to the sides of
said traverse. The plates or levers are pivoted at u² to the head-pieces o¹, and are
connected by rods 72 to excentrics arranged upon the shaft r.
To effect the jogging or jumping of the paste-board the traverse i is furnished with
a ruler-like steel-ledge s arranged upon the under side of the traverse. Said steel-
ledge co-operates with two similarly shaped steel-plates 81 82 that are arranged in a

page_text: plane with the table x of the machine. The manner of co-operation of these three
parts, and the means for moving them in the necessary way are fully described in my
British Patent No. 4903/ 1896 afore mentioned, and I therefore think I may abstain
from giving the same explanations a second time.
The table x is provided with slots (not shown) situated below the knives e, so that
the latter may freely cut through the piece of paste-board put upon said table. The
knives e extend more downwards than does the ledge s, or, in other words, the cutting-
edges of the knives are situated in a plane below the plane of the jogging or jumping-
edge of the ledge 8. When, thus, the parts e and s (the knives and the ledge) are
simultaneously moved downwards by the traverse i, the piece of paste-board is first
acted on by the knives, and then by the ledge, but after having been acted on by the
knives, or before being acted on by the ledge respectively, the paste-board is displaced
from the knives to the ledge, for such a way, that it is jogged or jumped at the ends
of the cuts, rectangularly to these latter.
To displace the pieces of paste-board in the manner just described I make use of a
slide arranged in a guide z¹, and operated by a double-armed lever z²; the latter is
moved by a cam 23 keyed to the shaft r.
The cuts made in the piece of paste-board need not indispensably form cut-outs or
recesses as represented in the upper part of Figure 1, but may form cuts proper i.e.
cuts resembling those produced by a pair of scissors; such a cut is represented in the
lower righthand corner of said figure. When intending to provide the paste-board
with cuts of the kind last mentioned, I let the knives e co-operate with knives e
(Figures 3 & 4) arranged below the table a, by the side of the slots of this latter.
Dated this 8th day of February 1897.
Improvements in Machines for Cutting and Grooving or Indenting
Paste-board to be used for the Manufacture of Boxes.
I, CARL ERNST PREUSSE, of Leipzig-Anger-Crottendorf, Kingdom of Saxony, German
Empire, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in
what manner the same is to be perforined, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:―
Pieces of paste-board intended for the manufacture of quadrangular and similar
boxes must be subjected to a preliminary treatment consisting in jogging or jumping
said pieces or parts, where they are to be bent, and in cutting the same where the
lugs are to be formed, said lugs being for the purpose of connecting the sides of the
box together.
Machines are known which effect the jogging or jumping as well as the cutting of
the paste-board pieces, or, in other words, that in which the mechanism for said
jogging or jumping is combined with other mechanism for said cutting. These last
mentioned devices are familiar to every one versed in the art in question, and the
mechanism for jogging or jumping the paste-board pieces, is described in my British
Patent No. 4903/1896 in which a machine with such mechanism is shown and
described.
My present invention forms an improvement on the machine of said British patent,
and consists in arranging the mechanism for effecting the cutting in front of the
mechanism for effecting the jogging or jumping, and in providing the machine with
a device for displacing the paste-board piece from the cutting-mechanism to the

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acted on by the urst-mentioned
A piece of paste-board worked by my improved machine is represented in Figure 1
of the drawing left with the provisional specification. The places where the
paste-board is jogged or jumped are indicated by the dotted lines as; the part a¹
enclosed by said lines forms, of course, either the bottom or the cover of the box,
whereas the other or outer parts a form the sides of either the box proper or the
cover for the same. Two of said other or outer parts located at opposite ends of the
piece of paste-board are cut at at, these cuts extending in the direction of the jogged
or jumped places between the other two outer parts and the inner part a¹. The ends
of these two parts are thus turned into lugs a³ which afterwards serve to connect the
four outer parts a² with each other.
The piece of paste-board is first cut, and then jogged or jumped. To effect the
cutting the machine is provided with two knives e (Figures 2-4; only one of these
knives is to be seen in each of said figures, because the other knife is covered by that
shown); said knives are secured to slides which are carried by, (and may be
adjusted by aid of grooves) a heavy travelling-device or traveller i. The latter is
capable of movement in a vertical direction and is guided by the head-pieces o¹
(Figure 2) which form the uppermost parts of the frame o of the machine. This
traveller i is supported by the pins ' fitted to the sides of said traveller and which
take into oblique slots u¹. The plates or levers u are pivoted at u² to the head-pieces o¹,
and are connected by rods 2 to eccentrics r¹ arranged upon the shaft r.
To effect the jogging or jumping of the paste-board the traveller i is furnished with
a ruler-like steel ledge s arranged upon the under side of the traveller. Said steel-ledge
co-operates with two similarly shaped steel-plates 81 82 that are arranged in a plane
with the table x of the machine. The manner in which these three parts operate
together, and the means for actuating them in the necessary manner are fully
described in my British Patent No. 4903/1896 afore mentioned, and I therefore think
I may abstain from giving the same explanations a second time.
The table is provided with slots (not shown), situated below the knives e, so that
the latter may freely cut through the piece of paste-board put upon said table. The
knives e extend downwards to a greater extent than does the ledge 8, or, in other
words, the cutting-edges of the knives are situated in a plane below the plane of the
jogging or jumping-edge of the ledge 8. Thus, when the knives e and the ledges are
simultaneously moved downwards by the traveller i, the piece of paste-board is first
acted on by the knives, and then by the ledge, but after having been acted on by the
knives, and before being acted on by the ledge, the past-board is displaced from the
knives to the ledge, to such an extent, that it is jogged or jumped at the ends of
the cuts, at right angles to these latter.
To move the pieces of paste-board in the manner just described, I make use of a
slidez arranged in a guide z¹, and operated by a double armed lever 2²; the latter is
actuated by a cam keyed to the shaft r.
The incisions made in the piece of paste-board need not indispensably form cut-outs
or recesses as represented in the upper part of Figure 1, but may be actual cuts, i.e.,
cuts resembling those produced by a pair of scissors, such a cut is represented in the
lower left hand corner of said figure. When intending to provide the paste-board with
cuts of the kind last mentioned, I let the knives e co-operate with knives e²
(Figures 3 & 4) arranged below the table x by the side of the slots of this latter.
The pieces of paste-board are reversed for the purpose of cutting and jogging the
opposite side and to jump the portions between, and in line with, the cuts, the knife
is removed, or another jumping ledge may be provided at right angles to the former
one so that only one operation is necessary for each two sides.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the saine is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
(1) A machine for cutting and jogging paste board, to be used for the manufacture
of boxes, in which, the mechanism for effecting the cutting, is arranged in front of the

page_text: mechanism for effecting the jogging, and in which are provided, means for automatically
transporting the pieces of pasteboard from the cutting mechanism first mentioned, to
the jogging or jumping mechanism substantially as described.
(2) In a machine for cutting and jogging paste-board to be used in the manufacture
of boxes, the.combination with the traveller i, holding the jogging-ledge s of knives e,
.also secured to said traveller, and operated by the same, and a device for automatically
displacing the paste-board from said knives to said ledge, substantially as described:
3. In a machine for cutting and jogging paste-board to be used in the manufacture
of boxes, the combination with the traveller ","holding the jogging ledge "s," of
knives "e," also secured by the slide e¹ to said traveller, and adapted to be adjusted.
with regard to said ledge by sliding along the groove in the traveller; the jogging
edge of the latter being normally located above the cutting edge of said knives,
substantially as described.
4. In a machine for cutting and jogging paste-board to be used in the manufacture
of boxes, the combination with the traveller "i" holding the jogging-ledge "s" of
knives "e," also secured to said traveller, and operated by the same; counter-knives
located below said former knives, and a slide, arranged to push the paste-board parts
from the spaces between the knives, to the space below the 'ledge substantially as
<described..
Dated thin oth d
110
CARL ERNST PREUSSE,
By Geo. H. Rayner,
Agent for the Applicant.