A method and apparatus are disclosed for conditioning a corrugated cardboard stack by causing air to flow through flutes of the stack from an air intake end to an air discharge end of the stack, air moved by an air moving device being confined to flow only, or at least predominantly, through the flutes.
A conveying apparatus for feeding sheets into a processing apparatus is discloses which comprises a plurality of nips within which sheets are gripped and driven along a conveying direction towards the processing apparatus, each nip being defined between a respective drive wheel and an opposing reaction surface. The drive wheels are omni-wheels configured to apply a frictional force to advance the sheets in the conveying direction while permitting free movement of the sheets in a direction transverse to the conveying direction, the reaction surfaces permitting free movement of the sheets in the transverse direction, and an elongate guide is arranged on one side of the conveying apparatus, to extend generally parallel to the conveying direction, the conveying apparatus being configured to urge conveyed sheets in the transverse direction into contact with the guide. A control system is provided to move the guide generally in the transverse direction in dependence upon sensed fiducials on the conveyed sheets, to ensure correct alignment of the sheets in the transverse direction with respect to the processing apparatus.
A co-layer surface-adhesive rule (SAR) that has a pre-defined cross-section profile. The co-layer surface-adhesive rule (SAR) has two or more layers, wherein at least one layer is made from flexible material and wherein at least two layers differ one from the other.
C08L 23/02 - Compositions of homopolymers or copolymers of unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbons having only one carbon-to-carbon double bondCompositions of derivatives of such polymers not modified by chemical after-treatment
C08L 23/16 - Ethene-propene or ethene-propene-diene copolymers
C08L 77/00 - Compositions of polyamides obtained by reactions forming a carboxylic amide link in the main chainCompositions of derivatives of such polymers
A conveying apparatus for feeding sheets into a processing apparatus is discloses which comprises a plurality of nips within which sheets are gripped and driven along a conveying direction towards the processing apparatus, each nip being defined between a respective drive wheel and an opposing reaction surface. The drive wheels are omni- wheels configured to apply a frictional force to advance the sheets in the conveying direction while permitting free movement of the sheets in a direction transverse to the conveying direction, the reaction surfaces permitting free movement of the sheets in the transverse direction, and an elongate guide is arranged on one side of the conveying apparatus, to extend generally parallel to the conveying direction, the conveying apparatus being configured to urge conveyed sheets in the transverse direction into contact with the guide. A control system is provided to move the guide generally in the transverse direction in dependence upon sensed fiducials on the conveyed sheets, to ensure correct alignment of the sheets in the transverse direction with respect to the processing apparatus.
A method and apparatus are disclosed for conditioning a corrugated cardboard stack by causing air to flow through flutes of the stack from an air intake end to an air discharge end of the stack, air moved by an air moving device being confined to flow only, or at least predominantly, through the flutes.
F26B 21/00 - Arrangements for supplying or controlling air or gases for drying solid materials or objects
F26B 21/06 - Controlling, e.g. regulating, parameters of gas supply
F26B 21/14 - Arrangements for supplying or controlling air or gases for drying solid materials or objects using gases or vapours other than air or steam
40 - Treatment of materials; recycling, air and water treatment,
07 - Machines and machine tools
16 - Paper, cardboard and goods made from these materials
Goods & Services
Custom manufacture services which involve cutting, shaping, and creating folding lines of sheets of paper and paper based material including cardboard, in order to create finished products for the printing and packaging industry and making three dimensional models by a material layering process; all of the aforesaid services are limited relating to to the customization of machines for cutting and creating folding lines of sheets of paper and paper based material including cardboard, in order to create finished products for the printing and packaging industry and making three dimensional models by a variable data cutting and layering process Industrial paper and cardboard cutting machines; paper and cardboard creasing machines; paper and cardboard creasing and embossing machines; machines for cutting and creating folding lines of sheets of paper and paper based material including cardboard, in order to create finished products for the printing and packaging industry and making three dimensional models by a material layering process; computerized paper cutting machines; Embedded computer software applications and industrial process control software and lasers sold as a component of computerized machines for cutting and creating folding lines of sheets of paper and paper based material including cardboard, in order to create finished products for the printing and packaging industry and making three dimensional models by a material layering process Boxes of cardboard or paper; cardboard; cardboard boxes; cardboard packaging boxes in collapsible form; collapsible boxes of paper; collapsible cardboard boxes; corrugated cardboard; corrugated cardboard boxes; corrugated containers; corrugated paper; honeycomb paper; paper; printed stationery; stationery paper and paper based material products, namely, cardboard, for the printing and packaging industry produced by making three dimensional models by a material layering process
7.
System and method for cleaning a laser cut substrate
A system for cleaning a surface of a substrate includes a cleaning element including a resilient compressible material. A liquid source provides liquid directly to the cleaning element, and a squeezing roller engages the cleaning element and applies pressure thereto, to squeeze out excess liquid from said resilient compressible material. A counter element opposes said cleaning element such that the substrate is disposed between the counter element and the cleaning element. The substrate moves between the counter element and the cleaning element such that a surface of the cleaning element, having a suitable amount of liquid absorbed therein, engages and cleans the surface of the substrate without damaging the substrate.
A system and methods for operating a cardboard processing machine, the method comprising creating a pre-processing crease at a location on the cardboard where it is required to process the cardboard; and processing the cardboard along the pre-process crease.
Methods and apparatus for stripping away portions of substrate are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a flexible and/or soft impact-element(s) rotates around a rotation axis to drive a peripheral portion across a substrate plane of the substrate and/or to repeatedly collide with the substrate. At least some of the collisions are effective to partially dislodge or to strip away portion(s) of substrate.
B26D 7/18 - Means for removing cut-out material or waste
B26D 7/32 - Means for performing other operations combined with cutting for conveying or stacking cut product
B26D 5/28 - Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting with interrelated action between the cutting member and work feed wherein control means on the work feed means renders the cutting member operative the control means being responsive to presence or absence of work
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
16 - Paper, cardboard and goods made from these materials
40 - Treatment of materials; recycling, air and water treatment,
Goods & Services
Printers; 3D printers; paper and cardboard cutting machines; paper and cardboard machines; paper and cardboard creasing and embossing machines; machines for cutting and creating folding lines of sheets of paper and paper based material including cardboard, in order to create finished products for the printing and packaging industry and making three dimensional models by a material layering process; computerized paper cutting machines. Computer hardware; computerized printers; computer software applications and industrial process control software and lasers for use with 3D printers and computerized machines for cutting and creating folding lines of sheets of paper and paper based material including cardboard, in order to create finished products for the printing and packaging industry and making three dimensional models by a material layering process. Boxes of cardboard or paper; cardboard; cardboard boxes; cardboard packaging boxes in collapsible form; collapsible boxes of paper; collapsible cardboard boxes; corrugated cardboard; corrugated cardboard boxes; corrugated containers; corrugated paper; honeycomb paper; paper; printed stationery; stationery paper and paper based material products namely cardboard, for the printing and packaging industry produced by making three dimensional models by a material layering process. Services relating to transformation of paper, cardboard and paper based substances; paper finishing; laminating; stripping finishes; services which involve cutting, shaping, and creating folding lines of sheets of paper and paper based material including cardboard, in order to create finished products for the printing and packaging industry and making three dimensional models by a material layering process; all services relating to the customization of machines for cutting and creating folding lines of sheets of paper and paper based material including cardboard, in order to create finished products for the printing and packaging industry and making three dimensional models by a material layering process.
Die and counter-die systems, polymeric rule dies for such systems, and polymeric formulations suitable for producing such rule dies using digital rule writing. There is provided a rule die for pressure-contacting of a cardboard workpiece surface, including: (a) a die body; and (b) at least one elongate polymeric rule, each rule having: (i) a first elongate base surface adhesively attached to a surface of the die body; and (ii) an elongate protrusion, distally protruding from the die body, the elongate protrusion having an elongate die surface, the elongate die surface including a polymeric material, the elongate die surface having a contact surface adapted to contact the workpiece surface; the contact surface having a length of at least 5 mm and a first width (W) within a range of 0.4 to 1.0 mm, the rule having a height (H) within a range of 1.0 to 4.5 mm; wherein, over a total length of the contact surface, the contact surface having at most 5 surface pocks/meter, the pocks having a diameter above 0.1 mm.
B29C 48/03 - Extrusion moulding, i.e. expressing the moulding material through a die or nozzle which imparts the desired formApparatus therefor characterised by the shape of the extruded material at extrusion
A system for cleaning a surface of a substrate includes a cleaning element including a resilient compressible material. A liquid source provides liquid directly to the cleaning element, and a squeezing roller engages the cleaning element and applies pressure thereto, to squeeze out excess liquid from said resilient compressible material. A counter element opposes said cleaning element such that the substrate is disposed between the counter element and the cleaning element. The substrate moves between the counter element and the cleaning element such that a surface of the cleaning element, having a suitable amount of liquid absorbed therein, engages and cleans the surface of the substrate without damaging the substrate.
B08B 15/00 - Preventing escape of dirt or fumes from the area where they are producedCollecting or removing dirt or fumes from that area
B08B 11/02 - Devices for holding articles during cleaning
B08B 11/04 - Cleaning flexible or delicate articles by methods or apparatus specially adapted thereto specially adapted for plate glass, e.g. prior to manufacture of windshields
B08B 3/04 - Cleaning involving contact with liquid
B23K 26/00 - Working by laser beam, e.g. welding, cutting or boring
B23K 103/00 - Materials to be soldered, welded or cut
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System for impressing a relief pattern on a substrate
A die and counter die system for impressing a relief pattern onto a substrate, including at least one male die including a contact surface and defining a relief pattern, a compressible counter film including a base layer, a contact layer disposed opposite the contact surface of the at least one male die and spaced therefrom, and a compressible layer disposed between the base layer and the contact layer and attached thereto. The contact layer is featureless in a region thereof opposing the relief pattern on the at least one male die. The compressible counter film has a compressibility, in a direction perpendicular to a broad face of the compressible counter film, in the range of 5-30% at 1.35 MPa. The system further includes a compression mechanism adapted to move the at least one male die and the compressible counter film towards one another in an operative mode.
A die and counter die system for impressing a relief pattern onto a substrate, including a male die film and at least one female die. The female die includes a female-die contact surface including at least one cavity defining the relief pattern. The male die film includes a flexible male-die contact surface which is featureless in a region thereof opposing the relief pattern on the at least one female die. The system further includes a compression mechanism adapted, when the substrate is disposed between the male die contact surface and the female die contact surface, to move the male die film and the at least one female die towards one another so as to impress the relief pattern on the substrate.
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for manufacturing a three-dimensional object from a stack of pre-stripped layers of substrate. Each object layer is formed by (i) providing substrate comprising waste portion(s) and substrate-retained portion(s) that are attached to each other and separated from one another by cut(s) within the substrate; (ii) subsequently, subjecting the subject of each layer to a stripping process which selectively strips away substrate-waste portion(s) from the substrate-retained portion(s). After stripping, the object layer is added to a stack of previously-stacked object layers to grow the stack. This process is repeated to further grow the stack. Object layers of the stack are bonded to each other to build the three-dimensional object therefrom. Apparatus and methods for stripping are also described—any teaching or combination of teaching(s) related to stripping substrate may be employed in any additive-manufacturing process described herein.
B32B 37/18 - Methods or apparatus for laminating, e.g. by curing or by ultrasonic bonding characterised by the properties of the layers with all layers existing as coherent layers before laminating involving the assembly of discrete sheets or panels only
B26F 3/00 - Severing by means other than cuttingApparatus therefor
B26D 7/18 - Means for removing cut-out material or waste
B26D 3/08 - Making a superficial cut in the surface of the work without removal of material, e.g. scoring, incising
B29C 64/393 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
B29C 64/147 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only solid materials using sheet material, e.g. laminated object manufacturing [LOM] or laminating sheet material precut to local cross sections of the 3D object
B29C 64/141 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only solid materials
B33Y 40/00 - Auxiliary operations or equipment, e.g. for material handling
A multi-orifice nozzle suitable for drawing a plurality of line rules in parallel, line rules disposed in parallel drawn using the multi-nozzle orifice, and systems and methods for using such line rules for impressing a substrate with a plurality of line indentations disposed in parallel.
A die and counter die system for impressing a relief pattern onto a substrate, including a male die film and at least one female die. The female die includes a female-die contact surface including at least one cavity defining the relief pattern. The male die film includes a flexible male-die contact surface which is featureless in a region thereof opposing the relief pattern on the at least one female die. The system further includes a compression mechanism adapted, when the substrate is disposed between the male die contact surface and the female die contact surface, to move the male die film and the at least one female die towards one another so as to impress the relief pattern on the substrate.
A system and a method for creating a fold line in a substrate, by impressing at least one crease line onto the substrate. The impressing is carried out by compressing the substrate between a die and a corresponding counter die of a creasing module. Following impression of the crease line, at least one cut is made in the substrate along the crease line thereby to form the fold line. The at least one cut has a depth less than the thickness of the substrate at the crease line.
B31B 50/00 - Making rigid or semi-rigid containers, e.g. boxes or cartons
B65D 5/00 - Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper
B26D 7/00 - Details of apparatus for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
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SYSTEM FOR IMPRESSING A RELIEF PATTERN ON A SUBSTRATE
A die and counter die system for impressing a relief pattern onto a substrate, including at least one male die including a contact surface and defining a relief pattern, a compressible counter film including a base layer, a contact layer disposed opposite the contact surface of the at least one male die and spaced therefrom, and a compressible layer disposed between the base layer and the contact layer and attached thereto. The contact layer is featureless in a region thereof opposing the relief pattern on the at least one male die. The compressible counter film has a compressibility, in a direction perpendicular to a broad face of the compressible counter film, in the range of 5-30% at 1.35MPa. The system further includes a compression mechanism adapted to move the at least one male die and the compressible counter film towards one another in an operative mode.
Die and counter-die systems, polymeric rule dies for such systems, and polymeric formulations suitable for producing such rule dies using digital rule writing. There is provided a rule die for pressure-contacting of a cardboard workpiece surface, including: (a) a die body; and (b) at least one elongate polymeric rule, each rule having: (i) a first elongate base surface adhesively attached to a surface of the die body; and (ii) an elongate protrusion, distally protruding from the die body, the elongate protrusion having an elongate die surface, the elongate die surface including a polymeric material, the elongate die surface having a contact surface adapted to contact the workpiece surface; the contact surface having a length of at least 5 mm and a first width (W) within a range of 0.4 to 1.0 mm, the rule having a height (H) within a range of 1.0 to 4.5 mm; wherein, over a total length of the contact surface, the contact surface having at most 5 surface pocks/meter, the pocks having a diameter above 0.1 mm.
C08F 2/46 - Polymerisation initiated by wave energy or particle radiation
C08F 2/50 - Polymerisation initiated by wave energy or particle radiation by ultraviolet or visible light with sensitising agents
C08G 61/04 - Macromolecular compounds containing only carbon atoms in the main chain of the macromolecule, e.g. polyxylylenes only aliphatic carbon atoms
B29C 48/03 - Extrusion moulding, i.e. expressing the moulding material through a die or nozzle which imparts the desired formApparatus therefor characterised by the shape of the extruded material at extrusion
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for manufacturing a three-dimensional object from a stack of pre-stripped layers of substrate. Each object layer is formed by (i) providing substrate comprising waste portion(s) and substrate-retained portion(s) that are attached to each other and separated from one another by cut(s) within the substrate; (ii) subsequently, subjecting the subject of each layer to a stripping process which selectively strips away substrate- waste portion(s) from the substrate -retained portion(s). After stripping, the object layer is added to a stack of previously-stacked object layers to grow the stack. This process is repeated to further grow the stack. Object layers of the stack are bonded to each other to build the three-dimensional object therefrom. Apparatus and methods for stripping are also described - any teaching or combination of teaching(s) related to stripping substrate may be employed in any additive-manufacturing process described herein.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
16 - Paper, cardboard and goods made from these materials
40 - Treatment of materials; recycling, air and water treatment,
Goods & Services
Printers; 3D printers; paper and cardboard cutting machines; paper and cardboard machines; paper and cardboard creasing and embossing machines; machines for cutting and creating folding lines of sheets of paper and paper based material including cardboard, in order to create finished products for the printing and packaging industry and making three dimensional models by a material layering process. Computer hardware; 3D printers, computerized printers and computerized paper cutting machines; computer software applications and industrial process control software and lasers for use with 3D printers and computerized machines for cutting and creating folding lines of sheets of paper and paper based material including cardboard, in order to create finished products for the printing and packaging industry and making three dimensional models by a material layering process. Paper goods; boxes of cardboard or paper; cardboard; cardboard boxes; cardboard packaging boxes in collapsible form; collapsible boxes of paper; collapsible cardboard boxes; corrugated cardboard; corrugated cardboard boxes; corrugated containers; corrugated paper; honeycomb paper; paper; printed stationery; stationery paper and paper based material products including cardboard, for the printing and packaging industry produced by making three dimensional models by a material layering process. Services relating to transformation of paper, cardboard and paper based substances; Paper finishing; laminating; Stripping finishes; Services which involve cutting, shaping, and creating folding lines of sheets of paper and paper based material including cardboard, in order to create finished products for the printing and packaging industry and making three dimensional models by a material layering process; All services relating to the operation, customization and maintenance of machines for cutting and creating folding lines of sheets of paper and paper based material including cardboard, in order to create finished products for the printing and packaging industry and making three dimensional models by a material layering process.
Methods and apparatus for stripping away portions of substrate are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a flexible and/or soft impact-element(s) rotates around a rotation axis to drive a peripheral portion across a substrate plane of the substrate and/or to repeatedly collide with the substrate. At least some of the collisions are effective to partially dislodge or to strip away portion(s) of substrate.
Die and counter-die systems, polymeric rule dies for such systems, and polymeric formulations suitable for producing such rule dies using digital rule writing. There is provided a rule die for pressure-contacting of a cardboard workpiece surface, including: (a) a die body; and (b) at least one elongate polymeric rule, each rule having: (i) a first elongate base surface adhesively attached to a surface of the die body; and (ii) an elongate protrusion, distally protruding from the die body, the elongate protrusion having an elongate die surface, the elongate die surface including a polymeric material, the elongate die surface having a contact surface adapted to contact the workpiece surface; the contact surface having a length of at least 5 mm and a first width (W) within a range of 0.4 to 1.0 mm, the rule having a height (H) within a range of 1.0 to 4.5 mm; wherein, over a total length of the contact surface, the contact surface having at most 5 surface pocks/meter, the pocks having a diameter above 0,1 mm.
A system and methods for operating a cardboard processing machine, the method comprising creating a pre-processing crease at a location on the cardboard where it is required to process the cardboard; and processing the cardboard along the pre-process crease.
B23K 26/40 - Removing material taking account of the properties of the material involved
B26D 5/00 - Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
An automatic-adjustable stacker for controlling the movement of a media, such as cardboard, through a media handling system. The stacker includes a media receiver positioned proximate a feed of the media that receives a leading edge of the media and a controller that causes the media receiver to move from a first position for receiving the media, to a second position for depositing of the media at a desired location. The media receiver is configured to prevent the media from coming into contact with other media already located at the desired location until the media has arrived at the desired location, while creating a concave-like shape to the media while conveying it.
A multiple-orifice nozzle that is employed for creating surface-adhesive rules onto the surface of a surface-adhesive die. The multiple-orifice nozzle is fluidly in communication with a source of flexible material that is forced or pulled through a selected orifice profile. The orifice profile can be selected based on a variety of criteria and, in some embodiments the orifice profile can be dynamically adjusted or controlled by adjusting the relative position of the multiple-orifice nozzle and/or by adjusting the position of one or more tubes that define various orifices such that the orifice profile is modified.
B05B 3/00 - Spraying or sprinkling apparatus with moving outlet elements or moving deflecting elements
B05B 13/02 - Means for supporting workArrangement or mounting of spray headsAdaptation or arrangement of means for feeding work
B05B 1/14 - Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means with multiple outlet openingsNozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means with strainers in or outside the outlet opening
B05C 5/02 - Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is projected, poured or allowed to flow on to the surface of the work from an outlet device in contact, or almost in contact, with the work
B05B 13/04 - Means for supporting workArrangement or mounting of spray headsAdaptation or arrangement of means for feeding work the spray heads being moved during operation
A system and methods for operating a cardboard processing machine, the method comprising creating a pre-processing crease at a location on the cardboard where it is required to process the cardboard; and processing the cardboard along the pre-process crease.
A multiple laser-beam scanner system for applying pre-treatment to a cardboard item. While maintaining a substantially uniform velocity of conveying the cardboard item through the system, the cardboard item is logically divided into areas and one or more laser-beam scanners are assigned to the areas. As such, the complex areas of the cardboard can be made smaller and/or multiple laser-beam scanners can be assigned to the complex areas to help ensure that dwell time on the cardboard is not increased.
A pretreated-cardboard stripper system for stripping a plurality of sections (package layout) from a pretreated cardboard; blank a pretreated cardboard. The system can separate between the one or more sections themselves; sort between the stripped sections and the waste. Some embodiments may include a vacuum sorter having a vacuum chamber with openings along its surface (or on part of its surface) and a peeler. A pre-treated cardboard, after been pretreated, may lay on top and along part of the surface of the vacuum chamber. The peeler may then transfer part of the pre-treated cardboard away from the surface of the vacuum chamber. Another embodiment of a pretreated-cardboard stripper may include a selective mask sorter. Yet another embodiment of pretreated-cardboard stripper may include an electrostatic selective mechanism.
An automatic-adjustable stacker for controlling the movement of a media, such as cardboard, through a media handling system. The stacker includes a media receiver positioned proximate a feed of the media that receives a leading edge of the media and a controller that causes the media receiver to move from a first position for receiving the media, to a second position for depositing of the media at a desired location. The media receiver is configured to prevent the media from coming into contact with other media already located at the desired location until the media has arrived at the desired location, while creating a concave-like shape to the media while conveying it.
B65H 29/18 - Delivering or advancing articles from machinesAdvancing articles to or into piles by contact of one face only with moving tapes, bands, or chains and introducing into a pile
Method and system for laser cutting is disclosed. Using a novel dual-focus optical conversion unit. The dual-focus optical conversion unit may comprise a beam splitter and a convex mirror. The beam splitter may be insensitive to the polarization of an incident beam. The convex mirror may be placed beyond and parallel to the beam splitter, wherein the surface of the convex mirror may be coated with a reflective phase-retarder coating.
A cardboard-handling system is disclosed. An example of the system can have a rule-die associated to a first drum and a counter die associated to a second drum for pre-treating cardboards. An alignmentor on a first side of the two drums aligns and conveys a cardboard together with a side-gripper conveyor toward the drums. The side-gripper conveyor transfers the cardboard through the drums for pre-treatment of the cardboard. Next, the side-gripper conveyor conveys the cardboard toward and through a laser-treatment module. The laser-treatment comprise a laser; a base with a plurality of protruding elements; and a coupling mechanism. The coupling mechanism couples one or more cardboards to the top surface of the one or more of the protruding elements while the laser's beam cuts the cardboard.
A cardboard-handling system with a rule-die associated to a first drum and a counter die associated to a second drum for pre-treating cardboards. A cardboard-alignmentor on a first side of the rule-die and counter-die aligns and conveys a cardboard together with one or more synchronized-cardboard transferors toward a side-gripper conveyor. The side-gripper conveyor transfers the cardboard toward and through the rule-die and counter-die drums for pre-treatment of the cardboard. Next the side-gripper conveyor conveys the cardboard toward and through a laser-treatment module to be further pre-treated. The side gripper conveyor movement is synchronized with a laser-treatment module for which a base with a plurality of protruding elements has moving capabilities and is synchronized with the side-gripper conveyor (via a timing belt for example).
B23K 26/38 - Removing material by boring or cutting
B65G 47/24 - Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors orientating the articles
B23K 26/40 - Removing material taking account of the properties of the material involved
B26D 1/01 - Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting memberApparatus or machines thereforCutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work
B26D 5/20 - Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting with interrelated action between the cutting member and work feed
B26D 7/02 - Means for holding or positioning work with clamping means
B26D 7/06 - Arrangements for feeding or delivering work of other than sheet, web, or filamentary form
B65G 15/42 - Belts or like endless load-carriers made of rubber or plastics having ribs, ridges, or other surface projections
A multiple-orifice nozzle that is employed for creating surface-adhesive rules onto the surface of a surface-adhesive die. The multiple-orifice nozzle is fluidly in communication with a source of flexible material that is forced or pulled through a selected orifice profile. The orifice profile can be selected based on a variety of criteria and, in some embodiments the orifice profile can be dynamically adjusted or controlled by adjusting the relative position of the multiple-orifice nozzle and/or by adjusting the position of one or more tubes that define various orifices such that the orifice profile is modified.
A co-layer surface-adhesive rule (SAR) that has a pre-defined cross-section profile. The co-layer surface-adhesive rule (SAR) has two or more layers, wherein at least one layer is made from flexible material and wherein at least two layers differ one from the other.
B31B 1/14 - Cutting, e.g. perforating, punching, slitting, trimming
C08L 23/02 - Compositions of homopolymers or copolymers of unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbons having only one carbon-to-carbon double bondCompositions of derivatives of such polymers not modified by chemical after-treatment
C08L 77/00 - Compositions of polyamides obtained by reactions forming a carboxylic amide link in the main chainCompositions of derivatives of such polymers
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Method and system for surface adhesive rule technology
A surface-adhesive-rule technology (SART) method and system for creating a surface-adhesive-rule die and counter die for pre-treating cardboard. Wherein the pre-treating comprises: creasing and/or cutting and/or embossing the cardboard. The SART system may comprise: a rule-drawer having one or more cartridges, one or more nozzles, and one or more pressure actuator; a leading mechanism that carries the rule-drawer; and a controller that controls the rule-drawer and the leading mechanism according to a layout of a surface-adhesive-rule die. Each cartridge may comprise flexible materiel and may be associated with one of the nozzles having an orifice with a profile. Further the leading mechanism moves the rule-drawer and the rule-drawer draws a plurality of surface-adhesive rules from the flexible material having an attribute to reserve the shape of the orifice profile through which it is deposited on the surface of a die's body according to commands obtained from the controller.
B05D 5/10 - Processes for applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces to obtain special surface effects, finishes or structures to obtain an adhesive surface
C08L 23/02 - Compositions of homopolymers or copolymers of unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbons having only one carbon-to-carbon double bondCompositions of derivatives of such polymers not modified by chemical after-treatment
C08L 77/00 - Compositions of polyamides obtained by reactions forming a carboxylic amide link in the main chainCompositions of derivatives of such polymers
B29C 47/00 - Extrusion moulding, i.e. expressing the moulding material through a die or nozzle which imparts the desired form; Apparatus therefor (extrusion blow-moulding B29C 49/04)
C08L 23/16 - Ethene-propene or ethene-propene-diene copolymers
C08L 83/00 - Compositions of macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions forming in the main chain of the macromolecule a linkage containing silicon with or without sulfur, nitrogen, oxygen, or carbon onlyCompositions of derivatives of such polymers
A Surface-adhesive-rule counter die that comprises a base associated to a flexible-counter film. Wherein the flexible-counter film may comprise one or more types of polymers and has resilience attribute. Wherein the SAR counter die acts as a counter die for pre-treating a plurality of cardboard.
C08L 23/02 - Compositions of homopolymers or copolymers of unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbons having only one carbon-to-carbon double bondCompositions of derivatives of such polymers not modified by chemical after-treatment
C08L 23/16 - Ethene-propene or ethene-propene-diene copolymers
