A front end conveyor includes a frame having a first side and a second side, a lower deck including a plurality of sheet supports and an upper deck including a plurality of sheet guides. Upper portions of the sheet supports lie in a first plane, and the plurality of sheet supports and the plurality of sheet guides define therebetween a sheet transport path for moving sheets in a sheet transport direction toward the downstream end of the front end conveyor. At least one helical brush is positioned at the sheet transport path and is configured to engage scrap material on the plurality of sheets. The conveyor also includes a drive configured to rotate the helical brush.

A front end conveyor includes a frame having a first side and a second side, a lower deck having a plurality of sheet supports and an upper deck having a plurality of sheet guides. Upper portions of the sheet supports lie in a first plane. The plurality of sheet supports and the plurality of sheet guides define therebetween a sheet transport path for moving sheets in a sheet transport direction toward the downstream end of the front end conveyor, and the front end system includes at least one blower directed at the sheet transport path and configured to dislodge scrap material from the sheets.

A suction conveyor device comprising a suction arrangement having a suction side on which low pressure is generated, continuously rotating flexible conveying means made of flexible flat material having holes, an inner side enabling the conveying means to move along the suction side, and an outer side for receiving flat items in the active area of the suction side, where the conveying means moves in the transporting direction, the suction arrangement and the conveyor means designed with a transport path width in the active range perpendicular to the transporting direction. The conveying means includes continuously circulating individual, single-piece, flexible conveying means, both lateral edges thereof extending in the transporting direction at a distance from each other being at least the same as the total width of the transport path such that the individual, single-piece flexible conveyor means extend over the total width of the transport path.

Processing units 4 to 6 aligned along the transport path for a sheet bundle S are accommodated in a housing together with transport units 2 and 3. Windows 10a to 10c are provided in the housing front face, and variable-color lighting units 17 are arranged inside the housing. Light emitting surfaces (projection plates 18) of the variable-color lighting units are arranged facing the windows. Sensor units 13, 15a, and 15b that detect an anomaly of an operation of the transport unit and sensor units 14 and 16 that detect an anomaly of the operation of respective processing units are provided. A binding processing unit stops when an anomaly is detected by the sensor unit, when a system error occurs, or when an emergency stop instruction is input. The color of emission light from a light emitting surface changes to indicate the operation status of the binding processing system.

A cardboard box dividing device includes lower conveyors on which a plurality of connected cardboard box bodies are stacked and transported; a pressing device pressing, from above, the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors; a cutting blade disposed along a width direction of the connected cardboard box body and dividing the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors into a front part and a rear part; a lifting/lowering device relatively moving the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies on the lower conveyors and the cutting blade along an up-down direction; and a control device controlling the pressing device based on a lifting/lowering height of a loading upper conveyor at a time when a pressing reaction force at a time when the loading upper conveyor presses the plurality of stacked connected cardboard box bodies reaches a preset reference pressing reaction force.

In a method of operating a flat-bed die-cutter a printing substrate in the form of a web is fed to a die-cutting module of the flat-bed die-cutter, a web section is severed from the web and removed as waste. The web is guided through the die-cutting module and the web section is severed from the web in or downstream of the die-cutting module and removed as waste. Products are thus formed by die-cutting a web while reducing waste and periods of standstill.

The invention relates to a device, in particular a roll cross-cutter, for forming a shingle stream of underlapping or overlapping sheets, in particular of paper or carton sheets, having a transport apparatus for transporting sheets, having a shingling apparatus for underlapping or overlapping sheets in regions, having a deceleration apparatus, downstream of the shingling apparatus in the transport direction of the sheets, for decelerating shingled sheets, in particular by forming a deceleration gap for the passage of shingled, combined sheets, and, preferably, having a cross-cutting apparatus upstream of the shingling apparatus for cutting a material web into individual sheets. According to the invention, the shingling apparatus is designed to be adjustable, in dependence of the cut length, in and/or opposite the transport direction of the sheets.

A cutting machine that includes a knife and an unrolling device. The knife severs foodstuff slices from a foodstuff bar. A leaf from a separating material is provided between at least two foodstuff slices. The unrolling device providing the separating material for disposal of the leaf between the two foodstuff slices and injects the leaf into the cutting region. The unrolling device has a tape roll and a delay unit. disposed downstream of the tape roll. The delay unit is configured for delaying the movement of the separating material, which is unrolled from the unrolling device and is provided in a cutting region of a cutting machine.

A method for rotary die cutting. The method may include providing, to an accumulator, an input comprising a melt. The method may include processing, by the accumulator utilizing a set of rolls, the melt to form a sheet of material. The method may include providing, from the accumulator, the sheet of material to a dandy roll. The method may include providing, from the dandy roll, the sheet of material to a rotary die. The method may include cutting, by the rotary die, a product from the sheet of material. The method may include providing, from the rotary die, the product to a stacker.

A cardboard box dividing device and a cardboard box production device include: lower conveyors on which a plurality of connected cardboard box bodies are stacked and transported; upper conveyors disposed so as to face the lower conveyors from above and supporting upper portions of the plurality of stacked connected cardboard box bodies; a pressing device pressing, from above, the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors; a cutting knife disposed along a width direction of the connected cardboard box body and dividing the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors into a front part and a rear part; and a lifting/lowering device relatively moving the cutting knife and the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies on the lower conveyors along an up-down direction.