Cutting waste removing device, slotter device, and box making machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12479121-B2
Application number	US-202218278638-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 21, 2022
Priority date	Feb 25, 2021
Publication date	Nov 25, 2025
Grant date	Nov 25, 2025

Abstract

A cutting waste removing device, installed in a box making machine for manufacturing corrugated cardboard boxes from a corrugated cardboard sheet, to remove cutting waste generated in a cutting process performed by a paper discharging unit of the box making machine, is provided with an air blowing device which is disposed along a travel region in a device width direction, through which cut processed portions of the corrugated cardboard sheet and the cutting waste travel, and which ejects air toward the cutting waste in such a way as to include a vertically downward directional component in a prescribed ejection mode, and a control device for performing intermittent on-off control of the operation of the air blowing device, wherein the control device controls the air blowing device to be on only at a timing at which the cutting waste passes through an air ejection region of the air blowing device.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A cutting waste removing device that is provided in a box making machine which manufactures a corrugated cardboard box from a corrugated cardboard sheet, and that removes a cutting waste generated in cutting processing by a slotter creaser section of the box making machine, the cutting waste removing device comprising:
an air blowing device that is arranged along a traveling area in a device width direction in which a cutting processed portion of the corrugated cardboard sheet and the cutting waste travel, and that injects air toward the cutting waste in a predetermined injection mode such that a directional component to a vertically downward side is included; and a control device that performs intermittent on/off control of an operation of the air blowing device, wherein the control device controls the air blowing device to be turned on only at a timing at which the cutting waste passes through an air injection region of the air blowing device.

2 . The cutting waste removing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the control device acquires traveling timing information of the corrugated cardboard sheet, and turns on the air blowing device in the injection mode based on the traveling timing information.

3 . The cutting waste removing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the control device acquires order information of the corrugated cardboard box, and turns on the air blowing device in the injection mode based on the order information.

4 . The cutting waste removing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the air blowing device includes a compressed air supply source, an air blow nozzle, and a flow rate adjusting device that includes an open/shut valve interposed between air supply passages connecting the compressed air supply source and the air blow nozzle, the control device performs intermittent on/off control of the open/shut valve, the flow rate adjusting device includes a pressure adjusting valve for adjusting strength of compressed air, and the control device adjusts the strength of the compressed air by controlling the pressure adjusting valve based on order information of the corrugated cardboard box.

5 . The cutting waste removing device according to claim 4 ,
wherein the air blow nozzle includes an upper nozzle that is arranged above the traveling area, and that has an air blowing direction set toward the traveling area.

6 . The cutting waste removing device according to claim 5 ,
wherein a plurality of the upper nozzles are arranged along a traveling direction of the corrugated cardboard sheet.

7 . The cutting waste removing device according to claim 5 ,
wherein the upper nozzle includes a nozzle for a gluing flap portion that is arranged above a traveling area of a gluing flap portion processed on one edge portion of the corrugated cardboard sheet in the device width direction.

8 . The cutting waste removing device according to claim 6 ,
wherein the upper nozzle includes a nozzle for a gluing flap portion that is arranged above a traveling area of a gluing flap portion processed on one edge portion of the corrugated cardboard sheet in the device width direction.

9 . The cutting waste removing device according to claim 5 ,
wherein the upper nozzle includes a nozzle for an edge portion that is arranged above a traveling area of an edge portion in which the other edge portion of the corrugated cardboard sheet in the device width direction is subjected to the cutting processing.

10 . The cutting waste removing device according to claim 6 ,
wherein the upper nozzle includes a nozzle for an edge portion that is arranged above a traveling area of an edge portion in which the other edge portion of the corrugated cardboard sheet in the device width direction is subjected to the cutting processing.

11 . The cutting waste removing device according to claim 5 ,
wherein the upper nozzle includes a nozzle for a groove that is arranged above a traveling area in which a groove of the corrugated cardboard sheet is subjected to the cutting processing.

12 . The cutting waste removing device according to claim 6 ,
wherein the upper nozzle includes a nozzle for a groove that is arranged above a traveling area in which a groove of the corrugated cardboard sheet is subjected to the cutting processing.

13 . The cutting waste removing device according to claim 5 ,
wherein a discard space for discarding the cutting waste is provided below the traveling area on a downstream side of the slotter device, and the air blow nozzle includes a lower nozzle that guides the cutting waste, which is blown off downward from the traveling area by the upper nozzle to the discard space.

14 . The cutting waste removing device according to claim 6 ,
wherein a discard space for discarding the cutting waste is provided below the traveling area on a downstream side of the slotter device, and the air blow nozzle includes a lower nozzle that guides the cutting waste, which is blown off downward from the traveling area by the upper nozzle to the discard space.

15 . The cutting waste removing device according to claim 4 ,
wherein the air blowing device includes a nozzle direction change mechanism that changes an air blowing direction of the air blow nozzle as the injection mode.

16 . The cutting waste removing device according to claim 5 ,
wherein the air blowing device includes a nozzle direction change mechanism that changes an air blowing direction of the air blow nozzle as the injection mode.

17 . The cutting waste removing device according to claim 6 ,
wherein the air blowing device includes a nozzle direction change mechanism that changes an air blowing direction of the air blow nozzle as the injection mode.

18 . The cutting waste removing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the control device includes a storage unit that stores the injection mode of the air designated by teaching, and controls the air blowing device in the injection mode of the air stored in the storage unit.

19 . A slotter device that is provided in a box making machine which manufactures a corrugated cardboard box from a corrugated cardboard sheet, the slotter device comprising:
the cutting waste removing device according to claim 15 on a downstream side of a slotter knife of the slotter device.

20 . A box making machine that is equipped with a slotter device, and that manufactures a corrugated cardboard box from a corrugated cardboard sheet, the box making machine comprising:
the cuttting waste removing device according to claim 15 on a downstream side of the slotter device.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Mach Systems Ltd

Inventors

• Nadachi Mitsuhiro
• Hatano Osamu

Classifications

• B31B50/22

  Notching; Trimming edges of flaps · CPC title

• B31B50/624

  Applying glue on blanks · CPC title

• B31B50/146

  using tools mounted on a drum · CPC title

• B31B50/006

  Controlling; Regulating; Measuring; Improving safety · CPC title

• B31B50/74

  Auxiliary operations · CPC title