Mathias Bauerle Gmbh

Werner King

Werner Lehmann

Joachim Kurtz

Ralph Pittelkow

A web and sheet sluice adjustable to different material thicknesses for sheets of paper or the like, which are fed to a processing or treating unit. The sluice has a passage gap between a friction roller, which rotates continuously during the working operation, and an axially parallel braking roller, which is radially adjustable in relation to the friction roller. An electric switching element sends a control signal for an electric circuit during the adjustment of the passage gap to the thickness of a sample located in the passage gap. The braking roller is rotatably mounted on the cylindrical eccentric of an eccentric shaft, which can be driven by a first electric motor drive and can optionally be adjusted to both directions of rotation, and with the friction roller stationarily stopped, it can be driven by a second electric motor drive at a speed of rotation that is substantially higher than the velocity of adjustment of the braking roller via a driving gear which can be moved out of its normal position. When the gap width to be set has been reached, the switching element, by the switching signal of which the two electric motor drives are stopped, is actuated.

Adjustable sluice for sheets of paper of the like

The paper folding machine is provided with a roller pair (T1,T2) which forms an intake zone (E) and determines the velocity of feed of the material to be folded, and with at least one pair of folding rollers (W1,W2,W3), which forms a folding zone (F1) and is parallel to the former pair of rollers. A stopless feed limiting device, which determines the actual folding length and can be actuated individually for each folding operation by a microprocessor and/or an electronic control circuit as a function of a feed measuring unit, is arranged in a material feed path (4) which extends past the folding zone (F1,F2). In order to reach narrow folding length tolerances even at high working speeds, on the side of the maerial feed path (4) opposite the folding zone (F1,F2), the feed limiting device is provided with a knife-like or bar-like deflecting member (6), which extends over the width of the material feed path and can be moved toward the folding zone (F1,F2) at a velocity corresponding to the velocity of feed of the material to be folded, while the material to be folded is deflected to form a fold.

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Lauterbach, Germany

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