In a method of aligning an upper and a lower changeable tool (2, 10, 18) in a device for processing, e.g., sheets of paper, provision is made that with the aid of at least one digital camera (50, 51), the upper changeable tool (2) is aligned with a sheet that has been moved in and the lower changeable tool (18) is aligned relative to the upper changeable tool (2) after the sheet has been moved out.

A box making machinery and a corrugated board running register method, include a feeding unit, a processing apparatus which carries out processing on a corrugated board, a running register device which adjusts the processing position of the processing device in a carrying direction of the corrugated board, and a control device which controls the running register device, wherein the control device includes a carrying misalignment amount calculation unit which calculates the carrying misalignment amount of the corrugated board from the feeding unit to a preset predetermined carrying position, and a control unit which adjusts the processing position of the corrugated board to be processed next using the running register device on the basis of the carrying misalignment amount after processing of the corrugated board has finished.

A machine for forming packing templates includes a infeed mechanism that can feed multiple feeds of sheet material into the machine without repositioning the infeed mechanism or forming creases or bends in the sheet material. The machine also includes a separation and cutting systems with one or more cutting tables and biased knives that cut the sheet material packaging templates. The machine also includes creasing roller(s) that forms creases in the sheet material. The machine also includes a system for reducing or eliminating the impact of irregularities in the sheet material.

A carton feeding and shuttle machine includes first and second servo drives for driving first and second belts positioned on a plurality of pulleys, a first block attached to the first belt and supporting a first support shaft and a second block attached to the second belt and supporting a second support shaft. A controller controls the servo drives for driving the first and second belts. A linkage assembly includes a plurality of links configured to move a plucking head along a shaft in response to movements of the first and second belts. Specifically, relative movement of the first and second belts pivots first and third links about a first support shaft and second and fourth links about a second support shaft drawing a base along a slide shaft and extending the plucking head from a first position to a second position for engaging a carton blank in a carton blank stack.

A paperboard blank stacker assembly for supplying a stack of paperboard blanks to a container forming machine includes a stacker. The stacker has multiple blank stops arranged to hold a peripheral edge of a bottom blank of the stack of paperboard blanks, with the multiple blank stops defining an interior region. A blank carrier has at least one suction device moveable into a grasp position, where the suction device applies a suction force to the bottom blank, and a removal position, where the suction device is moved to remove the bottom blank from the stack of paperboard blanks by pulling the bottom blank through the interior region.

A paperboard blank stacker assembly for supplying a stack of paperboard blanks to a container forming machine includes a stacker. The stacker has multiple blank stops arranged to hold a peripheral edge of a bottom blank of the stack of paperboard blanks, with the multiple blank stops defining an interior region. A blank carrier has at least one suction device moveable into a grasp position, where the suction device applies a suction force to the bottom blank, and a removal position, where the suction device is moved to remove the bottom blank from the stack of paperboard blanks by pulling the bottom blank through the interior region.

A first scoreline, and a perforated line along which a lid can be severed are formed beforehand in a lid sheet. The portion of the lid sheet along its first adjustment side is cut off in a strip shape by a first cutter. The portion of the lid sheet along its second adjustment side is cut off in a strip shape by a second cutter.

A sheet folding device and method, and a box-making machine, wherein are provided a molding belt for moving on a center side in the width direction of a cardboard sheet toward a downstream side in a transfer direction of the cardboard sheet and thereby pressing and folding both end parts in the width direction of the cardboard sheet from the outside, and a folding roller group formed by folding rollers for contacting insides of fold parts on both sides in the width direction of the cardboard sheet more toward the center in the width direction of the cardboard sheet than the molding belt, the folding rollers being arranged further upstream in the transfer direction of the cardboard sheet than a 90-degree folding position of the cardboard sheet.

A sheet folding device and method, and a box-making machine, wherein are provided a molding belt for moving on a center side in the width direction of a cardboard sheet toward a downstream side in a transfer direction of the cardboard sheet and thereby pressing and folding both end parts in the width direction of the cardboard sheet from the outside, and a folding roller group formed by folding rollers for contacting insides of fold parts on both sides in the width direction of the cardboard sheet more toward the center in the width direction of the cardboard sheet than the molding belt, the folding rollers being arranged further upstream in the transfer direction of the cardboard sheet than a 90-degree folding position of the cardboard sheet.

The invention relates to a line for manufacturing packagings (2) producing folding boxes (CA1, CA2) from plate elements (4), which comprises a feeding station (20), a shaping unit (33) which consecutively shapes the plate elements (4) by slitting, scoring and cutting operations, provided with pairs of shafts (230.sub.a-233.sub.a, 230.sub.b-233.sub.b) and a cutting unit (24), which engage to produce, in the shaped plate element (3), two juxtaposed folding box layers (P1, P2), arranged transversely to the direction of transport (FD), which are associated in series, and connected to one another by attachment points (45), a folding/gluing unit (26) which forms folded assemblies (5) by folding and gluing the shaped plate elements (4), a counting/ejection unit (27) which forms stacks of folded assemblies (6, 7), and a unit (29) for separating folding boxes comprising means arranged to produce, by breaking the attachment points (45), two separate batches (8.sub.1, 8.sub.2) of stacked folding boxes from each stack of folded assemblies (6, 7).