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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7444911 | Slitter blade assembly A disk-shaped rotary blade of a slitter blade assembly has a cutting edge and a first beveled surface facing a drum-shaped rotary blade of the slitter blade assembly and progressively spaced from the drum-shaped rotary blade toward the cutting edge. The disk-shaped ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7444912 | Portable sawmill with bi-directional cutting circular saws A portable sawmill with bi-directional cutting circular saws includes a saw support pivotally mounted to a primary support structure for pivotal movement about a pivot axis which is transverse to the direction of movement. Two circular saws are rotatably mounted one... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7377201 | Food processing apparatus for forming strips, slices and cubes A food processing apparatus comprises a first and second shaft and first, second, third and fourth subsets of blades. The first and second subsets of blades are mounted to the first shaft. The blades of the first subset of blades are separated by a first displacemen... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7163287 | Combined cutter and slitter module for a printer A combined cutter and slitter module for a wallpaper printer, the combined cutter and slitter module comprising: at least two end plates, a media web able to pass between the at least two end plates; at least two slitter rollers rotatably held between the at least t... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7127985 | Method and apparatus for creating consumer friendly hay bales A method and apparatus for providing easy to be handled, convenient, partially sized bales of hay, fastened together to form a single, “full-size” bale of hay. These partially sized bales made by a baler and then combined together via a bale aggregator. ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7040207 | Log merchandiser A log merchandising apparatus includes feeding and staging feeders and a plurality of pivoting overhead truss-mounted saws. The saws are travelling saws, reversibly and independently movable along the longitudinal axis of the log by means of a rack and pinion drive ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7028598 | Apparatus for longitudinally perforating a web of paper in a rotary printing press A rotary printing press has a folding station where the printed web is perforated both transversely and longitudinally in order to expedite subsequent folding thereof into signatures. In order to incorporate a longitudinal perforator into the folding station without... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7017460 | Method and arrangement for adjusting feed rate of a crosscut saw A method and arrangement for adjusting a feed rate of a crosscut saw (1), in particular, in a harvesting head of a forest machine during the crosscutting of wood (9) in the apparatus. A feed force (F) of the crosscut saw and/or a rotating rate (vc... | 03/28/2006 |
| RE39018 | High speed method of aligning cutting lines of a workplace using patterns Two imaging equipment are provided at a pair of cutting blade units, and the two imaging equipment image patterns at first positions in proximity to the center of a wafer at the same time. A controller drives drive mechanisms to align the wafer in such a way that cu... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7000302 | Process for preparing a radio frequency cable for coupling Radio frequency cables have a inner circular conductor and an outer circular conductor. The inner and outer circular conductors are usually formed from copper and are separated by a heavy insulation layer usually cellular polyethylene. The outer side of the outer co... | 02/21/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6931703 | Rail producing method and producing equipment The present invention provides a method and equipment for producing a rail, the method and equipment being capable of lowering a bend at an end of a rail effectively and the truncation amount thereof. The present invention is a method for producing a rail, character... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6802663 | Media cutter and slicer mechanism for a printer A printer for creating specialty-sized prints where media is advanced through the printer along a media advancement path, the printer including a housing, a printing mechanism disposed in the housing and configured to place a desired print on the media, a cutter mec... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6729218 | Device for cutting potatoes or other vegetables into slices or sticks A device (1) for cutting potatoes (5) or other vegetables into slices or sticks, comprising a cutting member (2) with a supply tube (3) and a discharge tube (4) connected thereto. The device is designed for moving potatoes (5 | 05/04/2004 |
| 6705190 | Lumber trimmer A lumber trimming device for trimming elongate workpieces conveyed on an infeed conveyor in a laterally disposed orientation relative to an infeed direction. The lumber trimming device includes a gang of laterally spaced apart drop saws wherein the drop saws are ind... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6612209 | Food processing apparatus A food processing apparatus for conveying food items such as carrots and the like to a cutter comprises a conveyor having a plurality of pockets for receiving the food items. The conveyor moves in a conveyor direction to the cutter for topping, tailing, o... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6606985 | Dual-cutting method devoid of useless strokes Disclosed is a dual-cutting method devoid of useless strokes of cutting blades across a workpiece. The work piece has cross lines drawn in the form of lattice, and it is divided into the intermediate and opposite side zones. Two lines of substantially equ... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6415698 | Apparatus for cutting wafer sandwiches An apparatus for cutting a wafer sandwich into a plurality of rectangular pieces has a support surface defining a transport path extending longitudinally through a longitudinal-cutting station and a transverse-cutting station. A plurality of stationary an... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6382067 | Lumber positioning apparatus for end trimming An apparatus for positioning lumber pieces for end trimming, by means of a succession of gates mounted on traveling chains set at a converging angle with the even end line of uniformly spaced lumber pieces carried transversely on parallel chains towards a... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6345616 | Cutting machine A cutting machine comprising cassette supporting means, disposed in a cassette bearing area, for supporting a cassette accommodating a plurality of workpieces; a chuck table disposed substantially horizontally movably between a chucking area and a cutting... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6311828 | Stepped positioning fence A board positioning device selectively positions in a lateral direction in a generally horizontal plane a board translating in a longitudinal direction in the horizontal plane, wherein the board is aligned along its length in the lateral direction. The de... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6276250 | Method and apparatus for separating a pipe from a cable A method of separating a pipe (1) from an elongate flexible element (2) used to pull the pipe (1) from the ground comprises drawing the flexible element (2) past or through separating means which splits the pipe (1) along its length as it passes to thereb... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6227091 | Outer-turn trimmer for wire coils on hook conveyor A hook conveyor moves a succession of coils having outer turns through a trimming station in a transport direction with each coil lying at the station in a plane generally parallel to the direction. A trimming apparatus has a pair of supports flanking the... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6142050 | Cutting machine for elongate workpieces A cutting machine (A) simultaneously cuts an elongate workpiece (a) into one or more building products, wherein each product is of a predetermined length. The machine includes a frame or foundation (1), which supports an input or carry-in conveyor (2) for... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6142138 | High speed method of aligning cutting lines of a workpiece using patterns Two imaging equipment are provided at a pair of cutting blade units, and the two imaging equipment image patterns at first positions in proximity to the center of a wafer at the same time. A controller drives drive mechanisms to align the wafer in such a ... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6128992 | Saw for removing top and bottom pallet deck boards A saw for removing opposing deck boards from a pallet. A pair of band saws are suspendedly and pivotally mounted to a frame. Guide fingers extend between the saw blades to engage the opposing surfaces of pallet deck boards to automatically position the sa... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6102023 | Precision cutting apparatus and cutting method using the same Disclosed is an improved precision cutting apparatus comprising a chuck table for holding a workpiece, and first and second cutting means each including a spindle unit having a blade attached thereto. The first and second cutting means are series-arranged... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6098513 | Assembly to shear rolled sections Assembly to shear rolled sections (11a, 11b) coming from two parallel, adjacent rolling lines, the assembly comprising for each rolling line a feeding unit (13a, 13b), shears (12a, 12b) for shearing to size and a single scrap shears (14) with two pairs of... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6092452 | Device for lengthwise slitting a web and method relating thereto A method is described for changing between jobs in a device for slitting a web (N) into a plurality of lengthwise strips (L1, L3, L5, L1', L3', L5') with two series of slitting tools (25, 25B). At the moment of the job changeover, the tools of a first ser... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6085627 | Apparatus for cutting a cellular polymer surface with multiple continuous platforms Apparatus for continuously shaping a compressible or cellular polymer material, such as polyurethane foam, by cutting portions of the material from a surface of one or more slabs of material (180) includes two compression rollers (146, 146a), two moving p... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6058822 | Size reduction apparatus A shredding apparatus is described which comprises at least one module of a pair of counter-rotating cutting assemblies located in spaced apart parallel relationship wherein each assembly comprises a driving shaft upon which is mounted one or more cutters... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6041577 | Method and apparatus for slicing elongated food articles into slabs and transferring the slabs to containers The apparatus of the present invention includes an indexing feeder for feeding the elongated food articles, a first slicing station and a second slicing station disposed along the indexing feeder for slicing the food articles into slabs, and a container c... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6032564 | Saw carriage A saw carriage or module for manually, semiautomatically or automatically cutting stems typically supplied by a stem handling apparatus, which stem handling apparatus delivers full-sized, substantially tree-length stems to one or more of the saw carriages... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6016731 | Recompacted hay bale cutting and stacking system A compressed hay bale cutting and stacking system includes a compressed bale cutter and a stacker arranged to stack half-cut or quarter-cut bales in multi-tier stacks while maintaining slices of the bales in substantial alignment. The bale cutter is orien... | 01/25/2000 |
| 6009784 | Device and method for processing ply material A device for processing ply material comprises a stationary device base; first and second transverse slides, first and second working units, and a controller. The first and second transverse slides are simultaneously displaceable in first and second conto... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5975180 | Machine for the production of panels including specified displacement means In a process and apparatus for the production of panels, plates or sheets are cemented on opposite sides of an intermediate layer of honeycomb with transverse openings constituted by a network of strips of constant width defining the openings. The edges o... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5887504 | Recompacted hay bale cutting and stacking system A compressed hay bale cutting and stacking system includes a compressed bale cutter and a stacker arranged to stack half-cut or quarter-cut bales in multi-tier stacks while maintaining slices of the bales in substantial alignment. The bale cutter is orien... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5842461 | Dicing machine A dicing machine of the present invention is provided with two spindles, which are arranged parallel to one another in the direction of the Y-axis and face one another. A workpiece is moved toward the spindles in the direction of the X-axis, and two blade... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5819613 | Saw mill apparatus and method Saw mill apparatus and method are disclosed which provide improved cutting of logs. The saw mill apparatus supports and advances a log towards the saw mill's saw assembly and cuts the log longitudinally by a pair of parallel band saws. Blade guides are mo... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5813302 | Sawing apparatus Sawing apparatus including a support, a first saw (3) and a feed table (4) which is designed to support a log to be sawn and which is movable to and fro relative to the support in order to move the log past the first saw. The apparatus includes a second s... | 09/29/1998 |
