Working machine for material webs, particularly paper format cross-cutter

• US 5,662,018 A
• Filed: 05/17/1995
• Issued: 09/02/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bielomatik Leuze GmbH & Company
• Original Assignee: Bielomatik Leuze GmbH & Company
• Inventors: Klein, Hansjorg
• Primary Examiner(s): JONES, EUGENIA A
• Application Number:
  US08/442,947
• Time in Patent Office: 839 Days
• Field of Search: 83/342, 83/343, 83/345, 83/672, 83/674, 74/409
• US Class Current: 83/343
• CPC Class Codes: B26D 1/626 for thin material, e.g. for sheets, strips or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B26D 2001/623 for selecting different knife sets by shifting the angle of the rotary cylinder
• CPC Class Codes: B26D 5/08 Means for actuating the cutting member to effect the cut
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 55/18 Special devices for taking up backlash for gears having orbital motion F16H1/2863
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/19623 Backlash take-up
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/483 With cooperating rotary cutter or backup
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/9399 Cutting edge wholly parallel to axis of rotation

Abstract

In a cross-cutter, particularly for small paper formats, having two knife shafts driven in synchronized opposing manner, provided with two knife sets, which are so mutually staggered on the two knife shafts that in a specific rotation position association of the two knife shafts only one of the sets engages, whereas the other knives pass through the cutting gap without cooperating with a corresponding counterknife. It is therefore possible for one knife shaft set to implement several synchronous lengths of cut by merely changing the reciprocal rotation position association of the knife shafts with respect to one another.

There is further provided a system for setting the backlash of the synchronizing gear to a minimum at several positions of a gear circumference by hydraulicly widening pockets in the gear body.

Claims

1. A working machine for material webs, comprising:

two machine parts rotatable in opposition to one another;

at least one pair of toothed gear wheels synchronizing said two rotatable machine parts with one another each gear wheel connected to a respective one of said machine parts, each of said gear wheels having at least one gear body and a toothed gear rim integral with said at least one gear body; and

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at least one of said gear wheels having means for deforming its gear rim radially outwardly to minimize backlash between the teeth of said gear wheels, said deforming means including a separate slot-shaped pressure medium pocket at each of a plurality of circumferential positions, each of said pockets locally deforming said gear rim in a radial direction when separately pressurized by a liquid pressure medium.

2. A working machine according to claim 1, wherein said slot-shaped pressure medium pocket is closed on all sides and intends substantially in the circumferential direction.

3. A working machine according to claim 2, wherein said slot-shaped pressure medium pocket extends closely adjacent to said toothed gear rim.

4. A working machine according to claim 1, wherein said rotatable machine parts carry at least one knife each, which cooperate with one another in a cutting engagement to sever said material webs, said deforming means being disposed at the circumferential positions to control said backlash during said cutting engagement.

5. A working machine according to claim 1, further comprising:

a pressure medium feed line for each of said pressure medium pockets; and

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a plurality of shutoff valves, each of said shutoff valves communicating between one of said pressure medium pockets and its respective pressure medium feed line, each of said pressure medium feed lines being connectable to an external source of said pressurized fluid medium.

6. A working machine according to claim 1, wherein said slot-shaped pressure medium pockets are cut into the gear body by a laser.