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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7228294 | Electronic cam device and method of preparing cam data in electronic cam device A method of automatically generating the cam data capable of realizing such a smooth cam profile that an acceleration at a designated point is zero without necessitating a special technique, comprising the steps of first obtaining an inclination at each designated p... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7213493 | Infeed apparatus for a sheet material article trimmer An infeed apparatus for a sheet material article trimmer includes a pusher element for moving a sheet material article to be trimmed on a front table of the trimmer and into engagement with a backstop of the front table. The pusher element is moved by a driver which... | 05/08/2007 |
| 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 |
| 6752055 | Turret type product receiver/unloader for slugless shear A turret assembly for receiving and holding lengths of re-cut tubing cut or sheared from a longer-length workpiece by a re-cut device. The turret assembly includes a motor, a plate and a plurality of accumulator members. The accumulator members are supported by the ... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6397714 | System for adjusting the position between a waste ejector and a cutting cylinder The cutting cylinder of a rotary cutting machine has at least one radial needle for retaining waste projecting radially from its surface. A waste ejector has a rectilinear part parallel to the generatrix of the said cylinder and traversed by at least one ... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6234053 | Label stacker for a rotary machine/apparatus A label stacker for stacking labels (6) from a rotary punching apparatus is provided with a punching roll (14) with cutting edges (16) and a smooth counter-pressure roll (15) for, during operation, jointly punching labels out of a thin web (3) conveyed be... | 05/22/2001 |
| 5566601 | Apparatus for cutting containers, away from a foil web An apparatus for cutting away containers, arranged in rows in a foil web having support platforms, which are rotatable perpendicular to the conveying direction and are surrounded by receptacles of a vertically movable die. To cut the containers away from ... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5044240 | Apparatus for conveying and cutting a product into discrete pieces An elongate product is divided into a plurality of longitudinal strips by frictionally engaging the product between a pair of spaced flexible conveyors defining a longitudinal feed path therebetween and feeding the product at a desired orientation into a ... | 09/03/1991 |
| 5029842 | Signature handling apparatus A signature handling apparatus includes a first conveyor which sequentially moves signatures to a discharge station. At the discharge station, the signatures are sequentially transferred to a receiving conveyor. A corrugator assembly is located at the dis... | 07/09/1991 |
| 4985012 | Apparatus for stripping scrap from die cut blanks An apparatus for stripping the scrap portion from a die cut blank includes a stripper pin carrier providing a pattern of stripper pins supported in a resilient compressible material layer in which the stripper pins are demountably embedded. The stripper p... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4953430 | Severed adhesive tape supplying device An adhesive tape delivering, cutting, and supplying device which includes a tape delivering member, a tape transferring member from a roll tape to a tape to be cut, a cutting member, and a tape supply member for attaching the tape to a rotary ring, whereb... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4879931 | Method for transporting away panel sections cut off a workpiece panel along a cutting plane in a panel saw A method for transporting panel sections away from a panel saw, and an apparatus for accomplishing same. Each panel section is lifted clear of the vicinity of the panel saw after being cut off from a workpiece panel and deposited on a conveyor for transpo... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4856395 | Cutting mechanisms This invention relates to a cutting mechanism and its method of operation in "cutting side-lock" portions from "green state" roofing tiles. The tiles are manufactured in a conventional concrete roofing tile making plant in which mortar fed to a hopper ext... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4811641 | Apparatus for cutting and dividing a continuous stream of printed products Apparatus for cutting and dividing a continuous stream of printed products, in which the paper sheet is folded by means of a longitudinal folding system and is then sheared to the format length, and in which the continuous stream of printed products is di... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4766756 | Continuous processing machine assembly for bending long rods or tubes A continuous processing machine for bending long metal rods includes a rod bundle handling machine for separating a bundle of rods and advancing the rods one after the other, a rod cutting station and a rod bending station provided downstream of the handl... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4766754 | Continuous process for bending long rods or tubes A continuous process for bending long metal rods comprises separating and feeding a bundle of rods and advancing the rods one by one to a rod cutting station downstream, cutting the rods and feeding them to a rod bending station downstream of the cutting ... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4765212 | Chip remover for machines which perform cutting operations, especially on metal workpieces Chip remover for machines which perform a machining operation, especially on metallic workpieces, such as strip edging machines, turning machines, etc. The chip remover has a stretched spiral rotating about its longitudinal axis with successive turns spac... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4760764 | Process for the continuous manufacture hour glass-shaped pads A method for manufacturing egg timer-shaped absorbent pads in which an absorbent material continuous strip of uniform thickness and uniform width is feed along a longitudinal path and divided in the longitudinal direction, along a continuous wavy cutting ... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4693154 | Method and apparatus for dividing and further treatment of units of goods A method and an apparatus for splitting pieces of material (1) into smaller units for further handling, whereby the piece of material (1) is split-up into preferably sector formed units which are placed on a rotatable solid or ringformed plate (10) built ... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4691603 | Cutting apparatus for cutting sheet material Cutting apparatus for cutting moving sheets or webs. A rotatable cutter carrier and a rotatable backup member are respectively provided with cutter blades and grooves, which cooperate in the plane of the sheet and are moved by planetary gear trains throug... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4669644 | Production of paper with decorative, non-rectilinear edges A method and apparatus of trimming a travelling web of paper along the longitudinal direction of the web comprising transporting the web through a trimming station and continuously trimming said web in said station, wherein said method comprises supportin... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4612842 | Apparatus for cutting filamentary material A modification to a reel type staple cutter that includes a housing surrounding the cutter reel. The housing has a cam slot sized to permit passage of a single tow but to prevent passage of a knot tieing together two ends of tow. As the cutter turns the k... | 09/23/1986 |
| 4608115 | Revolving transfer roll An apparatus including a revolving roll for applying to a sheet of a first material continuously moving in a first direction at least one discrete length of a second material with the length of the discrete length at an angle to the first direction. The d... | 08/26/1986 |
| 4606250 | Apparatus for producing blanks from a web An apparatus for producing blanks from a web including a pair of relatively movable upper and lower blades for severing therebetween blanks from a web along a predetermined cut line established by cooperative cutting edges of the blades, an end feed path ... | 08/19/1986 |
| 4588871 | Fabric cutting apparatus and method The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for cutting pieces of fabrics of uniform thickness and for stacking these pieces. The method generally includes arranging and maintaining a length of unrolled fabric on a cutting table which comprise... | 05/13/1986 |
| 4406197 | Method and apparatus for transporting rod-shaped articles A filter rod making machine discharges several parallel filter rods which move lengthwise and are severed at regular intervals to yield files of axially aligned filter rod sections. Such sections are transported axially to a first transfer station where t... | 09/27/1983 |
| 4338836 | Slicing machine with slice-depositing device A cutting machine, especially for foodstuffs such as wurst, forms slices of the product which are picked up on a cylindrical drum which has retractable pins and which, upon take-up of the slices, deposits them upon a plate by swinging downwardly toward th... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4309928 | Apparatus for simultaneously cutting wire segments from a plurality of wires An apparatus for simultaneously cutting wire segments having acutely angled ends from a plurality of wires including guide apparatus and feeding apparatus for the wires, and a cutting device comprising a base, reciprocable shear plate and clamp plate, eac... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4307594 | Delivery system for hot-rolled workpieces A workpiece issuing from a rolling mill is directed by a tubular guide to pass above the knives of a flying shear that is driven in a drive train used to rotate a cam used to pivot the guide tube and direct the workpiece into the shear. The workpiece move... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4302994 | Method of and apparatus for removing front and rear segments of rolled wire A method of and apparatus for removing front and rear segments of rolled wire or wire rod which, in the form of winding packages, is supplied to the apparatus (connected before a collecting device) and is subdivided by separating procedures into good wind... | 12/01/1981 |
| 4296660 | Device for feeding rod-like articles The device for feeding filter plugs to a demand drum comprises, in combination, a gravity-feed hopper containing a supply of multiple length filter rods, the hopper being closed, in correspondence of its bottom end, by a rotating fluted drum wherein each ... | 10/27/1981 |
| 4295842 | Stripping device for removing waste sheet board A stripping device for removing waste sheet material from the vicinity of a cutter. In one embodiment, a plurality of pins are mounted to a rotatable drum positioned adjacent a rotary steel cutting die. The die includes knives for cutting a sheet of mater... | 10/20/1981 |
| 4261236 | Device for converting the axial movement of cylindrical rod-shaped objects into a lateral translation This device for causing elongated cylindrical objects such as cigarettes delivered in the form of a continuous line to penetrate successive recesses formed in a rotary drum is of the type wherein a transfer device is interposed for accelerating the veloci... | 04/14/1981 |
| 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 |
| 4112800 | Apparatus for successively dispensing from a can of a jellied product slices of a cross sectional area less than that of the can A dispenser for use with a can of a jellied product has a holder to support an opened can in such an inclined position that with its open end downwardly its contents slide against a fixed retaining plate. An insert divides the contents into longitudinal s... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4099433 | Apparatus for providing adhesive strips of predetermined length Apparatus for providing adhesive strips having a predetermined length includes a rotatable reel for support of a roll of adhesive tape. A conveyor, which may be a rotatable turn table, is provided for supporting thereon a plurality of adhesive strips whic... | 07/11/1978 |
| 4089243 | Cheese making apparatus An apparatus for the continuous matting and milling of cheese curd. The apparatus includes a housing which houses an upper, water-permeable, endless conveyor belt and a lower endless conveyor belt which operates in the opposite direction to that of the fi... | 05/16/1978 |
| 4084465 | Sugar cane planter A sugar cane planting machine for eliminating the excessive manual labor previously required to plant sugar cane stalks. The uncut stalks are loaded in the rear of a tractor-pulled cart at the bottom of which is positioned a conveyor-like belt for moving ... | 04/18/1978 |
| 4062258 | Feedstock cutting and feeding device for forming machines A feedstock cutting and feeding device for forming machines having a reciprocating cutter which will cut the feedstock in one, short stroke and hold the cut feedstock in a position to be easily introduced to a transfer disc by the advancement of the feeds... | 12/13/1977 |
| 4048888 | Machines for cutting cardboard and other articles A machine for cutting cardboard and similar articles comprises a stationary platen mounted on the machine frame and an oscillating movable platen pivoted thereon to receive sheets one at a time from a magazine, means for delivering the sheets from the mag... | 09/20/1977 |
