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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7390243 | Sharpener for blades of food slicers A sharpener to sharpen the edge of a food slicer blade includes a non-planar abrasive surfaced rotatable disk mounted on a supporting structure. The supporting structure includes one or more surfaces designed to align with at least one of a push bar, thickness contr... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7134937 | Food product slicer with knife sharpener and associated knife guard A food product slicer with a rotatable slicer knife includes a knife sharpener and an associated knife guard assembly with a guard member positioned for protecting the edge of the knife when the sharpener is positioned in its standby, or non-sharpening state. ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7073421 | Slicing machine, and method of use and components thereof An ergonomically designed food slicing machine including a rotatable blade (800, 2800) for slicing bulk food product, a motor (1400, 3400) operably connected to the rotating blade (800, 2800), and a base (100) portion located below the ro... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7047855 | Apparatus for cutting pieces of material into appropriate shaped portions An apparatus for cutting a material having prevalently two-dimensional extension into appropriately shaped portions, in particular for cutting a fabric or the like into shaped portions for the manufacture of clothing items or other items, comprising a support frame ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6955108 | Sawing device for sheets of wood, plastic or the like A sawing device for sheets of wood and plastic material has a support with at least one transport belt. The transport belt has longitudinal profiled sections arranged in the transport direction of the transport belt. The longitudinal profiled sections are positioned... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6709319 | Sharpener assembly for a food slicer and related method A sharpener assembly for a food slicer includes a rotatable frame with a sharpening member and a truing member operatively connected for rotation with the frame. The frame is mounted on a food slicer to place the sharpening member and truing member on opposed sides ... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6698325 | Machine for skiving or splitting nonmetallic planar workpieces A machine for skiving or splitting nonmetallic planar workpieces, in particular plastic-coated paper-like workpieces, is disclosed. The machine has a motor-driven moving knife, in particular a bell knife or hoop knife, whose cutting edge moves around a cl... | 03/02/2004 |
| 5775189 | Cutting machine A cutting head is provided also with a notching blade to enable it to cut a length shorter than the blade width of a round blade. In order to eliminate the need for compressed air supplying equipment and simplify the mechanism thereby to make it compact a... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5209150 | Sharpening device for cold cuts cutting machines It is placed in a stationary manner in the top part of the machine and has a sharpening wheel (18) as well as a polishing device of the blade that eliminates the rough edges produced in sharpening. It has a frame (1) that incorporates a cover (3) that is subje... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5165314 | Slitting shingled sheets A method and apparatus for longitudinally slitting a continuously moving shingle of sheets of corrugated paperboard includes a thin, circular rotary slitting blade cooperating with a lower roller assembly which supports the underside of the moving shingle... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5067378 | Blade for cutting sheet material and related cutting method In a reciprocating blade for cutting sheet material, a lower cutting part includes a forward cutting edge defining portion and a rear body portion. The body portion has two parallel side faces. The cutting portion has first, second, third and fourth side ... | 11/26/1991 |
| 5027559 | Sharpening unit for leather splitting machines The sharpening unit comprises two diamond grinding wheels 6,7 mounted on respective shafts 8, 9 rotatably supported by a carriage 14 movable away from and towards the cutting blade 4 of a leather splitting machine to bring the grinding wheels in contact w... | 07/02/1991 |
| 4991481 | Blade for cutting sheet material and related cutting method In a reciprocating blade for cutting sheet material, a lower cutting part includes a forward cutting edge defining portion and a rear body portion. The body portion has two parallel side faces. The cutting portion has first, second, third and fourth side ... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4984492 | Cutting blade and method for cutting sheet material In a reciprocating blade for cutting sheet material first and second side surfaces inclined relative to one another intersect to define an elongated cutting edge. The cutting edge is offset from a reference plane located midway between the side faces of t... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4817480 | Knife sharpener A knife sharpener includes an abrasive cylinder and a rectangular block for sharpening the opposed portions of a knife edge. The cylinder and block are urged together to form a sharpening notch in which the knife edge is received. The knife sharpener is p... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4643061 | Rotary blade sheet material cutter with sharpener A cutter for cutting fabric and similar sheet materials spread on a supporting surface includes a rotary cutting blade and an associated sharpening element in the form of a rotary sharpening disk or similar element. A simplified sharpening apparatus and p... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4503866 | Cigarette or filter rod cut-off device A cut-off device for a cigarette or filter rod making machine is designed to work with a knife having an aperture which, when the knife is spent, is detected by a system including a light emitter and a detector, with an electronic timing system sensitive ... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4503643 | Sharpener assembly for the cutting cylinder of a crop harvester The cutter box which houses a cutting cylinder on a harvester has an access opening in its top wall through which an abrasive, full-length sharpening stone may be alternately inserted and removed to engage and sharpen the peripherally located knives of th... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4497143 | Device for sharpening rotating blades A device for sharpening rotating blades, in which a transverse approaching movement of a grindstone-carrying shaft towards an associated rotating blade to be sharpened is controlled, within a predetermined range, by a sensor sensitive to the speed of rota... | 02/05/1985 |
| 4472990 | Cutting device for continuous rods of smoking products A device for cutting continuous rods of smoking products, in which a rotary cutting head is provided with a radial blade inclined with respect to the axis of rotation of the head, the blade being sharpened, upon each rotation of the head, by a frusto-coni... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4276891 | Trimming devices for cigarette-making machines A trimming device for trimming the cigarette filler stream in a cigarette making machine comprises a first fixed blade and a first rotating brush member which cooperate to remove from the tobacco stream tobacco lying further than a first predetermined dis... | 07/07/1981 |
| 4189875 | Harvester cutterhead knife sharpening device A forage harvester includes a rotary cylinder-type cutterhead mounted in a housing and having a plurality of knives with cutting edges that generate a cylinder as the cutterhead rotates. A sharpening mechanism for the knives includes a pair of closed hous... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4065880 | Sharpener for cut-off having a helical knife A cut-off mechanism for a cigarette or other similar continuous rod making machine comprises a rotating helical knife and a sharpening device for sharpening the knife, characterized in that the sharpening device comprises two rotary sharpening members arr... | 01/03/1978 |
| 3986304 | Sharpener for commodity slicing machine The guard cover for a commodity slicing machine sharpener extends over and protects the otherwise exposed knife edge at the knife sharpening area. The guard protects the knife edge at all times regardless of whether the sharpener is in the sharpening posi... | 10/19/1976 |