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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7895928 | Shear device A shear device is disclosed. The shear device includes a material guiding mechanism, a shear head including a shear blade disposed proximate the material guiding mechanism, and a linkage for translating a first movement of one of the shear head and the material guid... | 03/01/2011 |
| 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 |
| 7168353 | Material handling systems A material handling system for a table saw that controls the orientation and speed of material as it moves through the system. The material handling system includes an idler device having upper and lower support surfaces configured to maintain a piece of processed m... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7140284 | Device for cold cutting elongate members along a longitudinal axis A cold separation device for separating an elongate metallic member along its length. The device has a separation unit having a driven blade, support member to support the elongate member upstream and downstream of the separation unit. The device further has to feed... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7140288 | Device for shaping a food product A method and cutting device makes incisions in an elongated food product, like a hot dog or sausage, to form a pattern or character after the product is cooked. One form of the cutter includes a hinged housing into which the food product is positioned. The housing i... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7090418 | Tape printing apparatus having a tape discharge mechanism and method of discharging a tape A tape printing apparatus including an internal unit having a print mechanism, a cutting mechanism, and a tape discharge mechanism that safely and reliably discharges tapes at a suitable speed to a proximate location relative to an apparatus main body. When printing... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7073420 | Hydraulic cutting device for cutting a raw aluminum material A hydraulic cutting device for a raw aluminum material includes an input tract for transporting the raw aluminum material to a cutting seat to be cut by the incorporation of a movable cutting block and a fixed cutting block. A measuring device is provided to measure... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7040207 | Log merchandiser A log merchandising apparatus includes feeding and staging feeders and a plurality of pivoting overhead truss-mounted saws. The saws are travelling saws, reversibly and independently movable along the longitudinal axis of the log by means of a rack and pinion drive ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6971423 | Method and apparatus for singulating, debarking, scanning and automatically sawing and sorting logs into lengths A log handling and cutting system which cuts logs into lengths, and allows for maximum use of fiber. The system includes equipment for singulating the logs, optimally removing the bark from the logs, scanning the true log image, cutting the logs to length, and sorti... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6955107 | Equipment for cutting particularly a paper web with a water jet Support and positioning means (10) and a cutting head (13) supported on them extend in the operating position of the area of the edge part (14′) of a paper web (14). In the cutting head (13), there is a support surface (16... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6929460 | Dough handling apparatus A dough cutting apparatus is disclosed including a plurality of dough cutting members (6), each of which is adapted for cutting a desired shape out of a strip of dough. Each dough cutting member is spaced apart from an adjacent cutting member by a predetermin... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6923101 | Continuous log bucking saw system and method A high-throughput, high-end-product-recovery, lineal log bucking device featuring continuous stem travel during the cutting process by using a simple and efficient machinery design for economy of equipment and monies. The apparatus includes: (1) a saw for cutting st... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6918729 | Method and device for trimming a book A method for trimming a single book having a front edge and two side edges includes transporting a book in a transport direction so that the front edge is parallel to the transport direction, cutting the front edge of the book using a first reciprocating knife when ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6612213 | Double-cut lobed belt diverter A method and device for diverting signatures is disclosed. A first cutting device partially cuts a web, while a second cutting device downstream of the first cutting device fully cuts the web so as to form a plurality of signatures. At least one first bel... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6318049 | Slitter machine for tab lock cases A slitter machine of the type where tab lock cases of varying height, width, and length are advanced therethrough in a product flow direction on a machine bed by a main drive motor, is presented. The slitter machine includes a frame, a centerline, a leadi... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6182547 | Unloader conveyor for a blanking die A steel blank can be removed from the space between a lower stationary die and an upper movable die by employing a belt conveyor in a cavity in the upper die. The frame for the conveyor belt mounts an array of permanent magnets that exert a magnetic pick-... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6038951 | High speed flying shears High speed flying shears with contrarotating blades (13) fitted to blade-holder drums (30), the shears comprising an upstream one-channel switch (16) of a start-stop type which conveys the rolled stock (11) lengthwise into sharing area and can be oriented... | 03/21/2000 |
| 5996456 | Punching apparatus An apparatus for punching transversely throughgoing coaxial holes in spaced walls of a workpiece has a holder supporting the workpiece and an outer tool part formed with a pair of transverse bores and displaceable between an advanced position engaged over... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5865081 | Anti-roll rake An apparatus for cutting thin tissue sections using an anti-roll rake. The anti-roll rake comprises a rake head for engaging the cut tissue section and leading it away from the specimen block without rolling. The rake head is hingedly mounted to a mountin... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5768963 | Method and apparatus for punching a stack In the punching of a stack (7) of sheet-like articles, especially labels made from paper or paperboard, with a punching knife (4), a punching ram (3) which can be moved to the punching knife (4) and a counter-pressure plunger (5) which is guided through t... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5347898 | System for assorting small product pieces cut from work pieces A method and system for assorting a number of small product pieces (G) cut off from a large work sheet (W) which is processed by a cutting machine (1) to form small product parts (G). The system includes a cutting-off device (71) for cutting off the small... | 09/20/1994 |
| 5241744 | Method of individually inserting terminals connected in a strip and apparatus for carrying out the method An apparatus is described for individually inserting successive components of a series of components having mounting legs by movement of the components along an insertion direction to introduce the mounting legs into holes in a substrate at an insertion s... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5135727 | Automatic single crystal ingot disconnector for single crystal pulling apparatus An automatic single crystal ingot disconnector which is mounted on the uppermost chuck of the conventional single crystal ingot removing assembly, which uppermost chuck assembly is adapted to shift in the axial direction of the ingot being chucked; the pr... | 08/04/1992 |
| 4966060 | Very high speed flying shears Very high speed flying shears (10) which is suitable to shear rolled stock (18) travelling even at more than 100 meters per second and comprises two knives (14) with blades (17) able to contrarotate in relation to each other at a preset speed at least in ... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4919027 | Sheet diverting and delivery system An apparatus for diverting and delivering sheets in which the sheets are positively controlled throughout the entire operation. Initially, a continuous web of paper passes between opposing cylinders comprising a rotary cutter. The lead edge of the web is ... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4912959 | Overhead magnetic blank unloading conveyor A conveyor belt apparatus is mounted between the upper and lower die shoes of a press for removing a metal blank from the press. The conveyor has magnetic means for magnetically attracting the workpiece to the underside of the belt as it is being moved fr... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4846030 | Scrap removal apparatus and method This application discloses removing scrap trimmed from a moving web with a series of pins mounted upon a disc which brings the pins into an impaling engagement in the scrap. The movement of the pins into such engagement is carefully synchronized between t... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4807503 | Hydraulic food convergence cutter apparatus and method In a hydraulic food cutting apparatus having mixing tank 13, food pump 14, converging tube segment 11 for accelerating and aligning food product to be cut, deceleration loop 18 and separating means 20 a method and means for reducing turbulent flow of cut ... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4708042 | Punching machine With a punching machine with at least one punching carriage, which can be moved transverse to the advance direction of a material belt, with a piston cylinder unit arranged in the punching carriage, which effects the punching stroke of a tool stamp and, w... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4694716 | Machine for cutting solid bodies A cutting machine for solid bodies such as rubber tires according to the invention comprises a blade base 14 moved vertically by pressing cylinders 1. Downwardly directed cutting blades 18 are mounted on the underside of the blade base 14. These blades 18... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4596173 | Bobbin separating unit A bobbin separating unit, includes at least two first and second serially connected bobbin separating devices, the second bobbin separating device having a given upper level, the first bobbin separating device including a feeding device being controllable... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4586409 | Slicing machine for cold cuts A slicing machine with a carriage for the goods to be sliced, a blade against which the goods are drawn to form a slice, a mechanism for carrying away the slices and a blade-cleaning member which is disposed along the rear of the blade and serves to defle... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4535662 | Method and apparatus for gathering beverage straws and the like The leading end of a continuous tubular supply is fed past a rotating flywheel into a guide. When the leading end reaches the back of the guide, a blade mounted on the flywheel severs the supply to form a straw or stirring stick. The straw is immediately ... | 08/20/1985 |
| 4512227 | Apparatus for the automatic shearing of a sheet metal in several pieces of different size Automatic shearing apparatus is provided which includes a shear provided with a shearing blade, a feeding unit for feeding sheet metal to the shear, and at least one movable carrier arranged downstream of the shearing blade. The movable carrier is control... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4507995 | Arrangement for removing workpieces from a cutting press A cutting press equipped for handling and treating or working plate-shaped workpieces or articles, especially of sheet metal, includes at least one cutting tool which is driven from a main drive of the machine through transmission components and its own d... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4506572 | Bobbin separating unit Bobbin separating unit, including a first charging device, a second charging device downstream of the first charging device in flow direction of the bobbins, a first separating device, and a second separating device downstream of the first separating devi... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4505173 | Three-knife cutting machine The invention concerns a three-knife cutting machine, in which dogs on a conveying chain in machine tempo transport the material to be cut from a magazine and into a transfer station, in which pushers moveable in the direction of transport take over the m... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4495746 | Packaging apparatus for producing and feeding blanks to a packaging station The efficient machine conveyance of inexpensive, very thin-walled packaging material, especially plastic foils, presents special problems because of the low degree of firmness of these foils. In the present apparatus, the front end of a sheet of such mate... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4468993 | Small log bucking system A bucking station for small logs is disclosed, in which a log is scanned to determine its size and shape, the resulting data are analyzed by a computer which determines the optimum locations for cuts, and the proposed cut locations are displayed on the lo... | 09/04/1984 |
