US 7,370,562 B2
Method for controlling slitter-scorer apparatus
Nokihisa Adachi, Kasugai (Japan); Minoru Naitou, Kasugai (Japan); and Tadao Kamimura, Kasugai (Japan)
Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Isowa, Aichi (Japan)
Filed on Feb. 06, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/773,589.
Claims priority of application No. 2003-035520 (JP), filed on Feb. 13, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2004/0159693 A1, Aug. 19, 2004
Int. Cl. B26D 3/08 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 83—13  [83/504; 83/507; 83/508.2; 83/880; 225/3] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for controlling a slitter-scorer apparatus, comprising the steps of:
supplying a paperboard sheet along a feed line; and
moving a slitter/scorer including at least one of a slitter and a scorer in at least one of a vertical direction by a mechanism for vertically moving said slitter/scorer and a widthwise direction by a mechanism for horizontally moving said slitter/scorer to an operative level where a surface of the paperboard sheet is processed thereby,
wherein each of said mechanism for vertically moving said slitter/scorer and said mechanism for horizontally moving said slitter scorer includes a servo motor,
and when said slitter/scorer moves from a first widthwise position of a first operative position to a second widthwise position of a second operative position, said slitter/scorer is caused to start moving only in the vertical direction while a level of said at least one of said slitter/scorer is between a bottom surface of the paperboard sheet and a top surface of the paperboard sheet, and then said slitter/scorer is moved simultaneously in the vertical direction and in a cross machine direction which said cross machine direction is oriented from said first widthwise position to said second widthwise position in part along a first diagonal path portion disposed on a first line and thereafter said slitter/scorer moves in part along a second diagonal path portion disposed on a second line that intersects the first line so that said slitter/scorer moves diagonally toward said second cross machine position before said slitter/scorer again moves only in the vertical direction and after said slitter/scorer initially moved only in the vertical direction.