Corrugating Roller Unit Loader for Quick Changeover
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing manufacturing apparatuses for corrugated board require complex construction changes to accommodate different corrugating roller units for producing various flutings, making efficient and quick changesover of these units difficult.
Innovation Solution
A corrugating roller unit loader is positioned outside the housing with multiple holders, allowing for guided displacement between loader and housing positions, utilizing a driving device with a gear rack and alignment system for easy and standardized changeover, enabling a compact and modular arrangement of multiple roller units.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple corrugating roller units are provided for different fluting types, then the adaptability of the manufacturing apparatus is improved, but the device complexity increases due to complicated construction changes required for changeovers
Solution Approach 1:
The manufacturing apparatus is segmented into a stationary housing containing operating components and a movable loader assembly containing additional corrugating roller units. This segmentation allows the roller units to be stored externally and loaded into the housing as needed, providing multiple fluting types without requiring permanent installation of all units within the housing, thus reducing overall device complexity while maintaining adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The loader assembly is designed to be movable relative to the housing, transitioning between a loaded position where corrugating roller units are stored and an operating position where units are transferred to the housing. This dynamic configuration allows the system to adapt between different fluting types by simply moving the loader assembly, avoiding the need for complicated permanent construction changes.
2Ease of operation
If corrugating roller units are stored and transferred using a loader system, then the ease of operation for changeovers is improved, but the device complexity increases due to additional loading and guiding mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The loader assembly serves as an intermediary mechanism between the storage position and the housing operating position. It provides a standardized interface with guiding portions that align with corresponding guiding portions in the housing, enabling automatic and guided transfer of corrugating roller units. This intermediary system simplifies the operation of changeovers while the modular design keeps the added complexity manageable.
3Manufacturing precision
If a guided displacement system with rails is used for the loader, then the manufacturing precision and positioning accuracy are improved, but the device complexity and space requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The guiding rails and alignment mechanisms are integrated within the loader assembly structure itself, with the loader's guiding portions nesting into corresponding guiding portions in the housing. This nested arrangement provides precise positioning and alignment for the corrugating roller units during transfer, achieving high manufacturing precision without requiring extensive external guiding structures that would increase overall device complexity and space requirements.
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus for the manufacture of corrugated board has a housing, in which the following are accommodated: a corrugating roller unit for the production of a corrugated web out of a material web, comprising corrugating rollers adjacent to each other, a gluing device for applying glue to the corrugated web and a pressing device for pressing the corrugated web, to which glue has been applied, to a liner. Outside the housing, a corrugating roller unit loader is arranged with a plurality of corrugating roller unit holders. These each serve to accommodate one corrugating roller unit. The corrugating roller unit loader is displaceable with respect to the housing and guided between loader positions such that in each of the loader positions, a loader guiding portion of one of the corrugating roller unit holders aligns with a housing guiding portion to move a corrugating roller unit, which is accommodated in the corrugating roller unit holder, between a loader holding position and a housing operating position. This results in a manufacturing apparatus in which a plurality of corrugating roller units can be provided at a low cost.