Patent ID: 7258655

Claim:
A gathering and pressing device for a folded box gluing machine, the gathering and pressing device comprising: drive rollers; drives each having a servomotor with resolver and connected directly to a respective one of said drive rollers, said drives being controlled-speed three-phase servomotors with resolver feedback; two machine-width, circulating conveyor belts being driven by said drives and having conveying runs disposed horizontally, one above another and running parallel to each other, said conveyor belts including an upper conveyor belt having a lower conveying run and a lower conveyor belt having an upper conveying run mounted for moving vertically with respect to said lower conveying run of said upper conveyor belt for pressing folded blanks, each of said lower conveyor belt and said upper conveyor belt being driven by a separate one of said drives; and a common control device for regulating said drives of said conveyor belts.