Two piece stripper finger for corrugating machine

In a web corrugating machine having a pair of cylindrical corrugated surface roll members mounted for rotation about respective cylinder axes and relatively positioned to rotatively mesh corrugation flute crests of one roll surface with corrugation flute roots of the other roll surface within a pressure nip region, said machine having web stripper fingers secured to finger bar means and arcuately disposed adjacent a portion of one roll cylinder circumference to strip a web drawn between the corrugated surfaces of said roll members at said nip region from the surface of the other roll and confine said web firmly against the corrugated surface of said one roll, the improvement comprising:

• A. first and second stripper finger sections movable relative to each other and aligned in the same plane that is substantially perpendicular to the cylinder axis of said one roll, each section arcuately disposed in contiguous relationship to each other and adjacent a respective segment of said one roll cylinder circumference portion;
• B. first finger section clamping means being rigidly secured to said first finger section and pivotally secured relative to said finger bar means;
• C. second finger section clamping means being rigidly secured to said second finger section and pivotally secured relative to said finger bar means;
• D. first spring means operatively disposed against said first clamping means to resiliently bias said first finger section toward said one roll surface;
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• E. second spring means operatively disposed against said second clamping means to resiliently bias said second finger section toward said one roll surface.