Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Printing & Packing Machinery, Ltd.

Toshinao Okihara

Takashi Nitta

Hiroshi Ishibuchi

Toshihide Kato

Kazuhito Ohira

Tadashi Itoyama

A double facer that fabricates a corrugated fiberboard and that includes heat plate units having thin walls aims at improving the heat conductive efficiency to fiberboard sheets in order to enhance responsibility to the setting temperature and concurrently avoiding thermal deformation of the heat plates due to a difference in temperature between the top surface and the bottom surface. The heat plate unit for fabricating a double-faced corrugated fiberboard included in a double facer that fabricates a double-faced corrugated fiberboards by gluing a single-faced corrugated fiberboard in a swath form and a linerboard together, the heat plate, being horizontally disposed and having a top surface on which the single-faced corrugated fiberboard in a swath form and the linerboard overlapping and being glued together travels, includes: a rib, disposed on a bottom surface of a heat plate, extending in a width direction of the heat plate, being coupled to the heat plateto form an integrated body, and being capable of thermal expansion; and temperature controlling means that controls a temperature of the heat plateand a temperature of the ribindependently of each other.

Heat plate unit and double facer for fabricating double-faced corrugated fiberboard

An improved disc-shaped knife rotary cutter which has a reduced size and is not complicated in structure as a whole, and which require a knife only on the upper side of a traveling sheet. The knife can be used over a long period and paper powder produced as a result of cutting of a sheet by the knife can be removed by a suction box extending over a full width of the sheet. The improved rotary cutter performs cutting by moving a knife edge portion of a rotating disc-shaped knife into a surface of a sheet being successively fed. On the underside of the traveling sheet, a brush consisting of rod-shaped brush elements is fixed on a backing table over the entire region in the lateral widthwise direction of the sheet. A knife edge of the knife is disposed close to a front end portion of the backing table and upon transfer of the knife in the lateral widthwise direction of the sheet the knife is raised to be disengaged from the brush and the sheet and then it is transferred and set in position. Thereafter, while the knife is being rotated, it is lowered to be engaged with the sheet and again cuts the sheet. Furthermore, grindstones for grinding the knife edge of the disc-shaped knife are provided so as to be movable in the axial direction of a shaft of the disc-shaped knife, and in addition, there is provided a felt immersed in soapy water for peeling off paste from the knife.

Disc-shaped knife rotary cutter

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Mihara, Japan

Toshinao Okihara