Machine for slitting and transversely cutting corrugated board

Claim 1

APPARATUS INCLUDING FIRST MEANS PROVIDING A WEB MOVING LONGITUDINALLY ALONG A GENERALLY HORIZONTAL FEED PATH; SECOND MEANS FOR SLITTING SAID WEB LONGITUDINALLY INTO A PLURALITY OF PARALLEL MOVING WEB SECTIONS; THIRD MEANS DISPOSED ALONG SAID FEED PATH IN POSITION TO RECEIVE SAID WEB SECTIONS AND OPERATE THEREON, SAID THIRD MEANS INCLUDING ENTRANCE CONVEYORS POSITIONED AT DIFFERENT HEIGHTS; FOURTH MEANS FOR SUPPORTING AND GUIDING SAID WEB SECTIONS INTO SAID ENTRANCE CONVEYORS; SAID FOURTH MEANS INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF ELEMENTS SPACED ACROSS SAID FEED PATH; POWER OPERATING MEANS FOR MOVING DISCRETE ONES OF SAID ELEMENTS FROM PRESENT TO SELECTED SUBSEQUENT POSITIONS WITH RESPECT TO SAID FEED PATH; SWITCH MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID POWER OPERATING MEANS FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION THEREOF; COMMAND MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID SWITCH MEANS FOR INITIATING OPERATION OF SAID POWER OPERATING MEANS; PRESELECTION MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID SWITCH MEANS FOR CHOOSING A SUBSEQUENT POSITION FOR EACH OF SAID ELEMENTS WITHOUT DISTURBING ITS PRESENT POSITION UNTIL SUBSEQUENT OPERATION OF SAID COMMAND MEANS; SAID SWITCH MEANS ACTUATING SAID POWER OPERATING MEANS RESPONSIVE TO ACTUATION OF SAID COMMAND MEANS TO SIMULTANEOUSLY MOVE SAID ELEMENTS TO THEIR SAID SUBSEQUENT POSITIONS CHOSEN BY SAID PRESELECTING MEANS.