Machine for processing web material

In a machine for processing web material comprising a feeding station, a creasing station provided with rotatable tools, a cutting station with rotatable tools, a stripping station with rotatable tools, a delivery station and drive means for rotating the rotatable tools, the improvements comprising each of the stations with rotatable tools including a frame having two lateral frame members, each lateral frame member having a groove, a drive pinion of the drive means being mounted on one of the two lateral frame members adjacent the groove, each of said grooves receiving a lower bearing block and an upper bearing block separated by a thickness plate, said upper and lower bearing blocks mounting upper and lower rotatable tools with one of the tools having a pinion in driven engagement with the drive pinion of the station, said bearing blocks having identical outside shapes regardless of the size of the rotatable tool, locking means being provided on each of the frame members for providing a locking pressure to urge the upper and lower bearing blocks downwardly with the lower bearing block engaging the lower face of the groove, said locking means including jam-preventing means for releasing the locking pressure on the bearing blocks in response to a predetermined pressure being applied to the rotatable tools;

• and said drive means having a single drive motor directly connected through a shaft to the drive pinion of one of said stations with rotatable tools, said drive pinion being connected by a first drive train to a differential means having an output connected to a feed roll of the feed station, said differential means receiving an input from a correction motor for varying the rate of feed of the web to the stations having rotatable tools, said drive pinion being connected by a second drive train to the drive pinion of an adjacent station having rotatable tools, said second drive train including an angular phase means for setting the phase between stations, said adjacent station having braking means connected to a pinion acting on the gears of its rotatable tools and a third drive train connecting the second station to the stripping station, said stripping station having an angular phase means for setting the phase between its upper and lower tools.