Spring loaded free floating stripper finger with stabilizer for a web corrugating machine

In a web corrugating machine including first and second rotating corrugated rollers operatively meshed at a corrugating nip through which a flat web passes to become transformed into a corrugated web as the web moves from a first rotating corrugated roller, through the corrugating nip and onto said second corrugated roller, a pressure roll operatively disposed adjacent said second corrugated roller at a pressure nip through which the corrugated web and another flat web pass and are joined to form single face board, the improvement comprising:

• a stripper finger holder assembly for positioning and supporting respective stripper fingers between said nips in a generally rigid posture such that each stripper finger extends normal with respect to the axes of said corrugated rollers, said stripper finger holder assembly including:
• a support bar extending adjacent said corrugated rollers and generally parallel with respect to the axes thereof and including a plurality of laterally spaced vertical cut outs formed therein;
• a plurality of axially spaced finger holders mounted to said support bar;
• securing means for securing said finger holder to said support bar;
• stripper finger means secured to respective finger holders and extending therefrom such that the stripper fingers generally engage the corrugated web passing through the corrugated nip between said first and second corrugated rollers and urge the corrugated web from the first corrugated roller to a path that causes the corrugated web to follow the second corrugated roller and wherein said finger means generally supports the corrugated web about a substantial portion of the second corrugated roller between the corrugated nip and pressure nip;
• and wherein each finger holder includes an attaching edge that generally lies directly against said support bar when the respective finger holder is attached thereto, and wherein said finger holder further includes upstanding locking member means that projects above the attaching edge of said finger holder for engagement with said support bar at a level above the interface of said attaching edge and said support bar for preventing said finger holder from twisting side to side and to assure that the finger holder and associated stripper finger means is maintained in a rigid posture with the finger means extending in a plane normal to the axes of said first and second corrugated rollers, said upstanding locking member means including an upstanding locking stud that projects upwardly from the attaching edge of said finger holder and wherein said locking stud is adapted to fit and mate within said vertical cut out such that the engagement of said locking stud with said vertical cut out prevents said finger holder from twisting side to side.