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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7316556 | Apparatus for cutting dough with nested pattern cutters A method is provided for producing individual dough products, comprising the steps of conveying a continuous dough sheet along a travel path, engaging a first die cutter with a first portion of the dough sheet to cut a first portion of the peripheral shape of at lea... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7171884 | Resilient cutting blades and cutting devices Steel reinforced tire fabrics are cut with long rigid bar blades, circular disc blades and disc and anvil blades. All of these blades may have an open relatively deep slot spaced close to the cutting edge that creates a resilient cantilevered spring element that inc... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7013776 | Device for cutting optical fiber and a method for cutting optical fiber An optical fiber cutting device provided with a speed reducing part which transmits drive force by reducing the drive speed of the external drive force, a drive force transmission part which transmits the drive force from the speed reduction part to the cutting blad... | 03/21/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6694850 | Cutter for cross cutting of reeled webs Cutter for cross cutting of reeled webs comprising a rotary cutting assembly including a blade and a counter blade rotated in synchronism with an advancement assembly of the web. The rotation axes of the blade and of the counter blade are displaceable rel... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6142688 | Apparatus for printing on elongated medium to be printed An apparatus for printing on an elongated medium to be printed has a printing head for printing based on printing data, transporting device for transporting the medium relative to the printing head, completely cutting edges for completely cutting the medi... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6077016 | Method and apparatus for roughening a book block spine formed of compressed printed sheets An apparatus for roughening a surface of a book block spine formed of a plurality of individual printed sheets clamped together. The apparatus includes a roughening tool which has a tool bit holder having a rotary axis and a radial face; a plurality of cu... | 06/20/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5787776 | Food slicer A food slicer includes a feeder for feeding a lump of food in one direction, an end detector for detecting an end portion of the lump of food fed by the feeder, a cutter for cutting the lump of food from its leading end into slices, and slice receivers ar... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5775190 | Food slicer A food slicer includes an end detecting device for detecting end portions of a food fed by a feeder. A retaining member is arranged to be movable with the food in a feeding direction of the feeder and to be retractable at substantially a right angle to th... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5697275 | Slicing station, with shear edge member, for a food loaf slicing machine A slicing station for a high speed food loaf slicing machine that slices one, two, or more food loaves simultaneously using one cyclically driven knife blade; the slices are stacked or shingled in groups on a receiving conveyor located below the slicing s... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5649463 | Slicing station for a food loaf slicing machine A slicing station for a high speed food loaf slicing machine that slices one, two, or more food loaves simultaneously using one cyclically driven knife blade; the slices are stacked or shingled in groups on a receiving conveyor located below the slicing s... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5435714 | Apparatus 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... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5404777 | Yield improving food slicing method and slicing apparatus Method and apparatus for improved slicing of large food sticks, loafs and the like are provided. A slicing blade having a flat top surface or top flat land width along its cutting edge provides generally longitudinal forces on the food product being slice... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5320014 | Yield improving continuous food slicing method and apparatus Method and apparatus for improved slicing of large food sticks, loafs and the like are provided. A slicing blade having a flat top surface or top flat land width along its cutting edge provides generally longitudinal forces on the food product being slice... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5308002 | Food slicer A hand-driven food slicer which includes a gear box with a shaft extending from it and within the gear box there is a driven gear and a driving gear, the driven gear being adapted to rotate a slicing mechanism in a housing atop the device which has a char... | 05/03/1994 |
| 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 |
| 5282406 | Slicing machine A slicing machine includes a blade-plate assembly and a stationary support structure capable of slicing multiple as well as varied food products at the same time. The blade-plate assembly includes a spiraled outer edge support plate and a circular blade h... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5163628 | Food slicer A kitchen appliance for slicing food has a slicing cylinder arranged rotatably in a housing. Material to be sliced is pressed against the slicing cylinder by means of a pusher which can be moved into a feeding chamber. The wall of the feeding chamber loca... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5123830 | Dough portioning machine A dough portioning machine includes a plurality of dough feeders for feeding dough under pressure from a hopper to a plurality of orifices. The dough blossoms through an open mouth of the orifice and is cut by a rotating wire moving in a circular path acr... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5050471 | Apparatus for supporting and guiding cigarette rods and the like A cigarette rod which is repeatedly severed by the orbiting knife of a cut-off is supported by a tubular guide which has a slot for the knife and is moved with the rod in the course of each severing operation to thereupon move back to a starting position.... | 09/24/1991 |
| 4934232 | Circular cutting machine A circular cutting machine is described which is characterised in that a product supply carriage, into which the guide for the material to be cut, the feed device and means for holding the material to be cut are integrated, can be switched over between an... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4919025 | Method and apparatus for processing continuously manufactured tubing A continuously fed tube is momentarily halted at a cutting station and quickly cut by a rotating knife. The tube is continuously advanced from driving rollers to idler rollers and passes through intermediate pinch rollers which are cam controlled in synch... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4913019 | Ham loaf size sensing means in a ham slicing machine In a ham loaf slicing machine having a rotary cutter supported for cyclical orbital movement into and out of a slicing station, a ham loaf size sensing mechanism is provided in a collar having an aperture for supporting a ham loaf in position at the entra... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4843932 | Drive and bearing arrangement for a cutting head of a circular cutting machine A drive and bearing arrangement for a circular cutting machine is described which is characterized by its high operational reliability, long working life and precise knife guidance. For this purpose a particular bearing arrangement is provided for support... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4833959 | Apparatus and method for making bread crumbs A method and apparatus for producing homogeneous bread crumbs including a conveyor for conveying bread loaves that securely holds the bread loaves while they are sliced by a rotary involute knife slicer into slices of substantially uniform thickness, a di... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4821616 | Machine for cutting food products such as in particular vegetables This machine is of the type comprising a frame (1) supporting a hopper (2) for charging the products, a cutting plate, an ejection plate (6a, 6b) for ejecting the cut products disposed under the cutting plate (4), and a device (13) for driving in rotation... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4817479 | Slicing apparatus and process for producing a cooked, sliced meat product Slicing apparatus particularly adapted for slicing raw and cooked meat includes a feed tube through which chunks of raw or cooked meat are fed under pressure against an immediately adjacent cutter which includes at least one cutting edge and forms a stop ... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4817481 | Vegetable cutting device A cutting device for cutting a vegetable and the like including a cup-shaped lower housing, an inverted cup-shaped upper housing with a connecting apparatus for connecting these housings, a cutter disk arranged in the lower housing, and a fixing apparatus... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4805503 | Loaf slicing machine A loaf slicing machine includes a cutting blade arranged to rotate about a center axis thereof while moving around an orbital axis to thereby cut the loaf cyclically, a feed member for intermittently advancing the loaf toward the cutting blade and extendi... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4799413 | Cutting arrangement for intermittent cutting of web material A cutting arrangement for the cutting to shape of a web-shaped material, such as paper webs (2) in printing presses. The arrangement consists of a cutting element (8) and a backing element (3) over which the paper web runs, in conjunction with which one e... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4771664 | Apparatus for the cutting of foods An apparatus for cutting foodstuffs, such as meat, and particularly bacon and sausage, is disclosed. The apparatus includes a carrying body from which holding flanges extend forwardly. Front and rear guide frames are supported in the holding flanges. Latt... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4719831 | Bacon slicing apparatus An apparatus and method for maintaining control over the orientation and position of the trailing end of a slab of bacon as the trailing end passes through a continuous bacon slicer, which apparatus and method involve depending from a linkage supported ab... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4712458 | Food loaf slicing machine with improved stacking characteristics A high volume food loaf slicing machine in which a rotating and orbiting knife slices the loaf as it advances through a slicing station. The turbulent air generated by the rotating and orbiting knife is reduced in the vacinity of the stacking slices by ba... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4709608 | Apparatus for securely holding a loaf food product during slicing A method and apparatus for holding a loaf food product in order to allow an automatic slicing system to slice the loaf to preset slice thicknesses. The loaf food product is securely held by a pair of loaf engaging members which are fastened to the inner e... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4709130 | Apparatus for severing a strip-like or wire-like electrode of a spark erosion machine An apparatus for severing a strip-like or wire-like electrode of a spark erosion machine has a belt conveyor formed by two belts positioned face-to-face and having formed in the belts corresponding cutting openings. Cutting elements and pressure plates en... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4703765 | Precise portion packaging machine A machine for forming, continuously, distinct portions of smokeless tobacco in a pouch or pocket form, and continuously forming a chain of individual pouches containing the distinct portions of smokeless tobacco, cutting each pouch from a string of pouche... | 11/03/1987 |
| 4685364 | Rotary slicer for comestible products A rotary slicer 20 for comestible products. A stationary magazine 26 supports a product upright as a rotary table 38 carries a rotary knife 40 in an orbit that passes beneath the magazine. A freely rotatable center plate 80 of the blade facilitates moveme... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4671150 | Apparatus and method for cutting pipe into small pieces An apparatus and method for cutting a pipe into a multiplicity of small pieces are provided wherein the pipe is fed by rotating the pipe about its longitudinal axis and simultaneously moving the pipe in a direction generally parallel to the longitudinal a... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4630658 | Counter rotating double disc chunker A device for disintegration of wood material such as roundwood, tree-tops, branches, waste wood, etc to firewood of a suitable length, said device comprising cutting members for the disintegration. In order to reduce the energy need the invention device c... | 12/23/1986 |
