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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 6920739 | Food product marking systems and methods A method and apparatus for aligning a mark to a plurality of individual pieces of food product to be divided from a sheet of food product before the individual pieces of food product are at least partially divided from the sheet of food product. In an aspect of the ... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6684746 | Variable-length cut-off folder and method A device for cutting a web of material, the web having a web velocity and moving in a web direction. The device includes a plurality of linearly movable cutting elements capable of moving in the same direction as the web direction for cutting the web into... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6158318 | Sawing machine A sawing device for sawing a long object to a fixed size, said sawing device comprising a conveyor (1) for conveying the object to be sawn and blades (3, 4) rotated by a first power unit (2) for cutting the object. The sawing device comprises a rotatable ... | 12/12/2000 |
| 5496165 | Shaping cutter Disclosed is a shaping cutter including upper and lower blades (4) and (3) fastened at one end so as to open in the shape of the letter X and cut when they close. The upper blade has an operating lever (6) extending from the end at which the upper and low... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5386754 | Cube making and peeling machine A fruit and vegetable cubing or dicing and peeling machine comprises, superimposed onto one another, a first conveyor belt formed by a plurality of equispaced cutting cables, and a second conveyor belt including a plurality of cross cutting blades closely... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5304055 | Apparatus and methods for the production of three-dimensional food products Three-dimensional food products such as crackers, cookies, puffed snacks, puffable glassy half-products, pet foods, pasta, confections such as chewing gum, and ready-to-eat cereals are produced on a mass production basis by feeding a dough or other food c... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5249494 | Cutting machine for slice-cutting, strip-cutting or dice-cutting The invention relates to a cutting machine for tuberiform vegetables or root crops, in which a rotor (2) is mounted rotatably in a rotation casing (1), the rotor carrying the material (4) and pressing it against the inner wall of the rotation casing. The ... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5088366 | Pinfeed hole punch assist A label press for manufacturing labels on an elongated web of release liner having thereon label stock and having a longitudinal axis, the press comprising a roller for moving the web in the direction of the axis, apparatus for manufacturing labels from t... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5054257 | Cut-off device for can-container packaging equipment A strip cutoff assembly for successively partitioning an array of can-type containers connected by a continuous plastic strip as the array travels along a conveyor at a constant rate. The strip cutoff assembly includes a pair of endless chains carrying a ... | 10/08/1991 |
| 5037350 | Method and apparatus for forming meat patties having a closer-to-handformed appearance and texture Ground beef at 28°-31° F. ground to pass through 3/32-1/8 inch grinder outlet openings is spread laterally and sheeted on a moving conveyor belt to a desired patty thickness with minimum pressure and working. The sheet passes under an endless track of t... | 08/06/1991 |
| 4983155 | Paper web cutter A paper web cutter for cutting across the width of a moving web of paper in locations along the length of the web, for severing the web in two sections. Two conveyors carry the web therebetween and hold the web against each other. One conveyor carries a c... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4939967 | Cut-off machine A cut-off machine for cutting off predetermined lengths from a moving length of roll form material such as tubing adapted to be positioned downstream from a source such as a tube mill for receiving a moving length from the mill and severing plural predete... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4908217 | Apparatus for making tiles or slabs Apparatus for making tiles or slabs such as roofing tiles or paving slabs from castable material, comprises a sequence of platens on an endless conveyor which affords a substantially continuous surface onto which are laid plates and from which dividers ar... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4854203 | Continuous motion perforator A perforator has an inner drum positioned within an outer drum. The drums define a nip through which a web of photographic film or other material is fed for forming perforations in the web by punches and dies on the drums. The dies are formed in a strip c... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4748882 | Traveling guillotine An apparatus (10) particularly suited for use for purposes of effectuating the cutting to length of continuous lengths of relatively thick, soft stock sheet material (14) such as sheets of styrofoam which have a thickness of six inches or greater. The sub... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4738079 | Method and apparatus for severing packaging material between successive wrapped loads during a continuous wrapping process A method and apparatus is provided for severing packaging material which extends between successive wrapped loads during a continuous wrapping process. Wrapped loads are conveyed along a load path in a conveying direction. A severing bar which extends lat... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4581970 | Machine for prescoring English muffins or the like A machine for carrying baked English muffins along a plane, and scoring the edges of the muffins all around the outer edge surface during a single pass through the machine by controlling the rotation of the muffin about an axis perpendicular to the genera... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4429559 | Strip processing apparatus A recirculating strip processing apparatus is described comprising a recirculating stripper chain, a recirculating tool chain, a recirculating carrier follower chain and a recirculating die chain in a removable cassette for continuous processing of integr... | 02/07/1984 |
| 4294143 | Method and apparatus for cutting into segments a continuously moving web of rigid insulation Two chain-type endless belts are positioned to transversely span a continuously moving strip-like web, one belt facing each of the two major web surfaces, the belts oriented at an acute angle to the longitudinal web axis. Disk-type freely rotatable cutter... | 10/13/1981 |
| 4287801 | Device for perforating bakery goods such as English muffins A device for perforating the edges of individual bakery products to facilitate the separation of the products into portions.... | 09/08/1981 |
| 4195489 | Portion controlled frozen food The specification discloses a system and process for producing discrete chilled products having preselected weights from a semi-fluid mixture. The semi-fluid mixture is pumped along a distribution path to an extrusion manifold which extrudes a continuous ... | 04/01/1980 |
| 4182225 | Apparatus for producing fiber cans A can is provided that includes a tubular can body having a separation line extending from one end to the other with a label over it to prevent the separation line from opening during shipment or storage. The label includes a partial circumferential colla... | 01/08/1980 |
| 4086834 | Apparatus for die cutting sheets of die cuttable material Apparatus for die cutting sheets of die cuttable material comprises endless conveyor means, a plurality of platens sequentially mounted on the conveyor means, a respective cutting die mounted on each of the platens, storage means for retaining a plurality... | 05/02/1978 |
| 4007652 | Continuously variable cutting apparatus for elongated sheet members Continuously variable cutting apparatus for elongated sheet members that are continuously supplied in a longitudinal moving direction and at desired intervals of widths; comprising several first projection nozzles connected to a high-pressure liquid sourc... | 02/15/1977 |
| 3934628 | Mechanical apparatus for cutting moving work A mechanical apparatus used to accurately cut extruded artifically made fire logs to a length determined by the distance between consecutive cutting blades suitably mounted on a rotating flexible force transmitting means, for example a pair of chains, is ... | 01/27/1976 |
