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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7540222 | Apparatus for cutting series of medicine packets An apparatus for cutting a series of medicine packets discharged from an automatic medicine packaging machine into individual doses to automatically load the cut medicine packets on a loading device is disclosed. The apparatus includes a feeding device for feeding t... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7299728 | Loaf end trimming station for slicing machine A loaf end trimming station for a high speed food loaf slicing machine, includes a frame, a first knife and a second knife spaced apart along the frame and oriented in positions corresponding to a lead end trimming location and a trailing end trimming location of a ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7231857 | Depaneling systems A depaneling system is disclosed for cutting a panel. The depaneling system comprises a tooling apparatus and a cutting apparatus. The tooling apparatus helps hold the panel in place with suction during cutting of said panel and collects dust particles generated by ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 6979153 | Deep-grooving insert having stepped cutting edge A deep-grooving chip-forming cutting insert includes a rear mounting portion, a front cutting portion, and a pair of side walls, each side wall extending along the front and rear portions. The front cutting portion includes a front end surface, a top surface, and a ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6536318 | Loose lamination die with rotating blanking station In a method and apparatus for rotating loose laminations in a loose lamination die, a strip is fed through the die to a rotatable blanking chamber of a blanking station. There, a punch engages with a die ring to punch a lamination free from the strip. The... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6523445 | Loose lamination die with rotating blanking station In a method and apparatus for rotating loose laminations in a loose lamination die, a strip is fed through the die to a rotatable blanking chamber of a blanking station. There, a punch engages with a die ring to punch a lamination free from the strip. The... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6361639 | Method of manufacturing an index divider sheet assembly A method for manufacturing an index divider sheet assembly adapted for feeding into ink jet printers and the like for a printing operation on the sheet body and/or the index tab of the assembly. The assembly includes a divider sheet having a tab extending... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6055896 | Stacking machine and method The disclosure relates to a stacking machine which cuts a multiply rope into bundles, clamps the lead ends of the bundles against a conveyor which moves the bundles to stacking stations where the bundles are collected in stacks. Completed stacks are trans... | 05/02/2000 |
| 5970833 | Stacking machine and method The disclosure relates to a stacking machine which cuts a multiply rope into bundles, clamps the lead ends of the bundles against a conveyor which moves the bundles to stacking stations where the bundles are collected in stacks. Completed stacks are trans... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5618759 | Methods of and apparatus for immobilizing semiconductor wafers during sawing thereof A method of immobilizing both (i) a semiconductor wafer (16) during the sawing thereof to form individual chips (18) and (ii) the resulting chips (18) as and after sawing of the wafer (16) is completed. A negative pressure is applied to the wafer (16) thr... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5250134 | System and method for forming an overwrap web provided with inserts Paper stock is unwound, printed, folded, laminated and cut to form inserts. The laminated inserts are applied to an overwrap at an appropriately spaced interval. The resultant overwrap can then be wrapped around cigarette packs to provide each pack with a... | 10/05/1993 |
| 4905157 | Control method for shearing bars in bar steel line A control method for shearing bars in a bar steel line provided on the final end side of a bar steel production line so as to shear collectively and simultaneously to desired lengths a plurality of bars obtained by dividing a bar steel blank and arranged ... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4856393 | Method for die cutting plastic foam A die cutter for cutting a product from a sheet of material. The die cutter has a rule die blade, which defines the shape of the product. The die blade is held by a die holder, which has an opening corresponding to the die blade, so that the cut product c... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4777711 | Stacker A stacker for a flexible strand, such as a flimsy wire, comprises: (a) a conveyor having an elongated endwise traveling stretch onto which the strand is fed to be carried endwise on the stretch, (b) a gripper to grip a trailing portion of the strand as forward exte... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4674375 | Mechanism for slitting and merging sheets A mechanism for slitting a sheet into a number of individual smaller sheets and thereafter merging the smaller sheets together and mechanism for adjusting the angle of merge.... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4526074 | High-speed apparatus and method for trimming thermoformed articles A high-speed apparatus and a method for successively trimming a plurality of thermoformed articles from a surrounding continuous web of a thermoformable foam plastic film material. A male locator urges the thermoformed articles molded into the web against... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4266455 | Long-sized wire transfer apparatus A long-sized wire transfer apparatus for use with a wire cutting machine or the like including a wire feed mechanism and a cutter blade assembly which opens and closes to cut into predetermined lengths a wire intermittently fed in by the wire feed mechani... | 05/12/1981 |
| 4216689 | Weight controlled bread loaf slicer Bread loaves 12 are fed by spiked conveyor 13 into a slice cutter 14 and then to a pocket 29 on an indexing turret 16, where the slices are impaled on parallel pins 31. When the turret intermittently rotates a pusher 34 strips the slice group from the pin... | 08/12/1980 |
