Apparatus for driving a plurality of units
Assigneebielomatik Leuze GmbH & Co.
InventorsGuido Negro, Reinhold Fitzel
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Abstract
An apparatus for driving a plurality of units, in particular processing units on paper processing machines, which are arranged on the machine in the shape of a star. To allow the drive mechanism to be constructed more simply and more cheaply, but nevertheless to maintain the synchronism, the drive is effected from a shaft via a cam, crank or eccentric drive means and an actuating rod. The actuating rod causes a pivotally mounted actuator which is common to all units to oscillate to and fro, the actuator in turn bearing cams or crank pins and driving the units via tappets or cranks. The cams can be arranged in one or more rows and can also be exchangeable.
Claims16
An apparatus for simultaneously driving a plurality of successive article processing units, comprising:
- a machine frame, the units being affixed to the frame and angularly spaced from one another with respect to a central axis;
- a drive shaft rotatably mounted to the frame;
- eccentric drive means disposed on the shaft;
- an actuating rod drivably connected to the eccentric drive means;
- an actuator pivotally mounted on the frame, connected to the actuating rod and arranged to reciprocate when driven by the actuating rod;
- and,
- a plurality of respective cam means on the actuator for independently driving each of the units by movements transverse to movement of the actuator, whereby articles are successively processed in simultaneous operations of the different units.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.