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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2018
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Systems, Ltd., Hyogo, JP;
Naoki Shigeyama, Hyogo, JP;
Takanori Iwai, Hyogo, JP;
Masakazu Ohira, Hyogo, JP;
Yasunari Suzuki, Hyogo, JP;
Abstract
A cardboard box dividing device includes lower conveyors on which a plurality of connected cardboard box bodies are stacked and transported; an upstream side positioning member and a downstream side positioning member movable along a transport direction and a thickness direction of each connected cardboard box body in upstream and downstream portions of the lower conveyors; a positioning drive device capable of independently moving the upstream side positioning member and the downstream side positioning member; a pressing device pressing, from above, the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors; a cutting knife disposed along a width direction of the connected cardboard box body and dividing the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors into a front part and a rear part; and a lifting/lowering device relatively moving the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies and the cutting knife along an up-down direction.