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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7207250 | Process and device for moving and positioning sheets of glass In a system for cutting glass sheets into shapes there is at least one cutting site (A, B). In order to align the glass sheet which is to be cut or the glass sheet shape into a defined position, on the edge of the tables I and II there are contact edges (21, 44, ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 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 |
| 6931973 | Slicing-machine drive A slicing machine has a blade having an edge, and a carriage adapted to carry a foodstuff to be sliced and displaceable past the blade edge in forward and reverse directions. A reversible drive on the support is connected to the carriage for displacing it in both di... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6918586 | Method and apparatus for providing positive control of a printable medium in a printing system The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for providing positive control of a printable medium in a printing system such that high speed processing of the printable medium can be achieved without damage to the product (e.g., printed signatures). Ex... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6883409 | Device for cross/cutting material strips, in particular cardboard strips A device for cross cutting a cardboard web in which, both the blade drums, a sheet transport conveyor accelerates the sheets and then the sheets are positioned to shingle the sheets on a further conveyor. The sheet transport conveyor has a rerouting roller at the ou... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6666006 | Sheet feeder and sealer for automatic slicing machine A slicing machine has a main housing having a horizontal conveyor surface and a subassembly in the main housing for cutting slices from a foodstuff and depositing them on the conveyor surface. A supply housing immediately upstream of the main housing carr... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6640681 | Method and device for slicing food products The invention relates to a method and to a device that allows portions of similar slices to be obtained even if the product that is sliced is changed. To this end, the slice surface is monitored. Incomplete portions are transferred to a park position subj... | 11/04/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6557446 | Apparatus for cutting and sorting diagnostic strips Diagnostic strips of the kind which are exposed to biological fluids such as blood or urine to detect or monitor medical conditions are cut sequentially from elongated cards by a reciprocating shear blade. The cards may be ones which exhibit defective are... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6412379 | Automatic punching apparatus A scraping bar is disposed between the positions corresponding to endless chains of a thin sheet material transferring member. A nipping mechanism is disposed behind the scraping bar in its travelling direction. A thin sheet material having been subjected... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6354300 | Pusher/cutter drum arrangement for positioning and cutting rod-shaped objects A pusher/cutter drum arrangement for use in the tobacco-processing industry for longitudinal-axial positioning and cutting of rod-shaped objects includes a rotating trough drum containing receiving troughs for receiving, respectively, the rod-shaped objec... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6318224 | Slicing of products A method of and apparatus for slicing products, such as of foodstuffs, has a slicing station at which slices are cut from a product fed to the station. The cut slices fall on a receiver arranged below the slicing station, and the vertical distance between... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6227087 | Liquid jet cutter for cutting a rolled dough product A cutting apparatus cuts a rolled dough product. The apparatus includes a conveyor conveying a rolled dough cylinder along a dough travel path. A nozzle is coupled to a liquid source providing liquid under pressure and is directed toward the dough travel ... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6196097 | Bacon slicer system A bacon slicing system (10) includes a conveying system (20). The conveying system (20) is mounted for sliding between a first and second lateral position. The conveyor belt (65) of the conveying system (20) is rotatable in a longitudinal direction which ... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6170371 | Apparatus for transporting signatures The present invention generally relates to transporting signatures within a folding apparatus. Exemplary embodiments include at least one pair of cooperating cutting cylinders, each having at least one of a knife and an anvil. A conveying plane extends in... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6158315 | Method, device and cutting tool for producing individual pieces of dough from a continuous line of dough Method for producing individual dough pieces from a continuous line of dough, in which a row of separate, individually complete contours running diagonally or perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the line is cut out of the end section of the lin... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6092449 | Stacker for labels and the like There is disclosed a stacker used in conjunction with a cutter, wherein the stacker has a roller assembly which is pivotally mounted to facilitate in servicing and for clearing jams. The stacker is positioned close to a cutter assembly to enable short lab... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6092802 | Process for the manufacture of printed products and an arrangement for implementing this process A process for manufacturing printed products from a web of paper printed on according to a predetermined page sequence and subsequently cut crosswise, or crosswise and lengthwise to form individual sheets which can be optionally turned by 90°, relative t... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6067992 | Cigarette manufacturing machine having a shaving device A cigarette manufacturing machine having a shaving device for shaving a bead of tobacco fed along a given path, wherein two tubular shaving bodies, arranged eccentrically one inside the other and having respective serrated annular end edges having a tange... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6067883 | Method and apparatus for providing positive control of a printable medium in a printing system The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for providing positive control of a printable medium in a printing system such that high speed processing of the printable medium can be achieved without damage to the product (e.g., printed sign... | 05/30/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5974928 | Device for cutting a strip of sheet material into blanks A continuous strip of sheet paper material is divided into blanks by a device comprising a cutter and an anvil rendered capable of sliding movement one in relation to the other and establishing a cutting position toward which the strip is advanced by way ... | 11/02/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5918444 | Cold cut slicer with packaging device A cold cut slicer having a packaging device is comprised of a sheeting roll having a pulling-out device, and a cutting device for supporting sheets or covering sheets, which are grasped by a swivel arm having evacuatable suction heads and which are brough... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5865082 | Apparatus for transporting signatures The present invention generally relates to transporting signatures within a folding apparatus. Exemplary embodiments include at least one pair of cooperating cutting cylinders, each having at least one of a knife and an anvil. A conveying plane extends in... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5819620 | Installation for cutting sheet material The invention relates to an installation for automatically cutting sheet material, the installation comprising at least one cutting device and at least one device for stacking sheets for cutting. The cutting device comprises a bench, and a cutting head mo... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5806392 | Producing shaped articles Shaped articles are cut from a web by correspondingly shaped cutters on a drum cooperating with an anvil drum. The web is engaged by conveyor bands which pass around the cutter and anvil drums and form a continuing conveying path for the web away from the... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5732609 | Sheet saving diverter for corrugator A corrugator dry end includes a sheet saving diverter positioned immediately downstream of a rotary shear and a conventional scrap diverter. Useable sheets may be cut to selected useable lengths, diverted and stacked without damage, and without slowing th... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5680802 | Method and apparatus for bucksawing logs Previous methods of bucksawing logs slow the throughput of a sawmill in that the conveyor line is stopped while a given log is bucksawed to length. The present invention provides a method for bucksawing a log which improves the throughput speed, comprisin... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5499564 | Method and apparatus for forming a spread An apparatus for forming a spread of generally thin, pliable material from a roll thereof onto a table includes a cradle for holding the roll of the material which is selectively operable to rotate the roll of material for feeding a web of material genera... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5415389 | Storage and stacking device for sheets of laminar material An automatic storage and stacking device for sheets of laminar material, such as corrugated cardboard or the like, comprises a transportation unit which removes the sheets of laminar material from a cutting group, overlaps them and conveys them towards a ... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5255584 | Device for cutting and stacking of products packed in a foil tube The device for cutting and stacking products is based upon product slices which are packed in the form of a chain in a foil tube whereby the individual product slices are separated from one another by sealing seams which run perpendicular to the width of ... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5251523 | Extruded plastic cutting assembly and machine A cutting machine for cutting elongated, extruded plastic articles includes a cutter assembly composed of a pair of side-by-side, plate-like cutting die bushings having a transverse article opening formed therethrough configured and dimensioned to accommo... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5228554 | Material take-off ramp and system for a conveyor cutter bed and method of use A cutter for cutting closed shape pieces into sheet material has a bristle bed conveyorized member advancing the sheet material from a receiving end to a discharge end past a cutting tool performing a cutting operation on the material. Disposed at the dis... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5179883 | Apparatus for dividing wood An apparatus for finishing wood (cants) comprises a circular saw (6) which can be reciprocated (double arrow 7) in the cutting plane (11), and several clamping trestles (1) for holding the piece of wood to be divided, these trestles being adjustable perpe... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5154689 | Blank forming machine with a front waste removal device A machine, which is designed for converting sheets into blanks for forming packages, has at least an infeed station, a processing station for cuting and creasing the sheets of material into blanks, which processing station includes an upper and lower plat... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5142956 | Apparatus for spacing and reorienting croissant dough pieces An apparatus for spacing and orienting croissant dough pieces has a dough-spacing device located at the position where the dough pieces are transferred from the upstream conveyor to the downstream conveyor, which dough-spacing device places the dough piec... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5101702 | Slicing machine with alternate-slice stacker An apparatus for cutting slices from two foodstuffs and for stacking the slices has a blade having an input side and an output side and an input table on the input side adapted to support the two foodstuffs next to each other and displaceable on the input... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5038647 | Cutting-off machine for cutting logs of paper material and the like A machine is described for cutting large diameter wound logs of paper or similar web material such as toilet tissue and the like into relatively small discs for use specially in institutional dispensers. The machine includes a cradle and transport means f... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038648 | Adjustable shear blade blanking press with automatically centered blank pusher An adjustable shear blade blanking press with an automatically centered blank pusher has a guide over which a strip of sheet material to be cut into blanks can be guided device extending a cross the guide transversely to the guide in a guide direction, at... | 08/13/1991 |
