Abstract: The device for sharpening a cutting blade presenting a sharp edge includes at least one grinding wheel provided at least on the surface with abrasive material. The grinding wheel has a cylindrical body presenting a V-sectioned peripheral groove, and is mounted to rotate freely about an axis contained in a plane generally parallel to the sharp edge of the blade and perpendicular to the median plane of the blade, with the axis being inclined by a predetermined angle with respect to the normal to the median plane of the blade. The sharpening device is further constructed to place the blade and the grinding wheel in contact and to provide for relative displacement of the blade and the grinding wheel in a direction parallel to the sharp edge of the blade.

Abstract: An apparatus to effect the dicing of credit cards to prevent their inadvertent and unauthorized use is provided to include confronting faces, with the first face of a first housing having a matrix of lug members in a parallel relationship received within lug openings defined by orthogonally intersecting rows of first and second cutter blades. The apparatus is arranged to include slide drawer structure to permit the selective accommodation for disposal of the pieces thusly cut.

Abstract: A storing and dispensing container comprising a carton (10) including opposing end panels (15) having corresponding recesses 25 therein for seating a cutting means (24) which is releasably engageable therein. Slots (16) and pendent slots (56) are included in end panels (15) so that a rod(18)with a roll of paper (20) thereon can be supported in the slots (16), (56). Rod (18) includes an additional length (22) at one of its ends adjacent one of the end panels (15) for mounting a tape dispenser (21) thereon and which is handy for assisting securing paper torn off by the cutter (24) onto an article, box or the like. Carton folds up into a closed mode for storing and carrying one of more rolls of paper (20) therein.

Abstract: Disclosed is a punch pressing machine requiring no turret, having punch units and die units as die sets, the number of which is not inferior to a turret punch pressing machine, and exhibiting a working accuracy superior to the turret punch pressing machine. A plurality of punch units and die units are disposed in two or more lines on a mounting plate member. A hammer member confronting the respective punch and die units is positioned in X-and-Y axis directions, whereby a workpiece can undergo necessary punch press working.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for cutting stacked, sheet-like material, having a table surface which has a working zone, above which a cutting blade and a press beam are located, an entry zone behind the working zone for receiving the material to be cut and an exit zone in front of the working zone for receiving the cut material, a feed device for the material to be cut, which feed device has teeth which engage grooves of the press beam when the feed device is in its foremost position, and also a side stop for aligning the material to be cut by means of a pressing slide movable in the area of the working zone in the direction of the line of cut, where the feed device extends essentially over the entire width of the table surface, and the pressing slide is effective solely in the area of the working zone formed between the cutting plane and the foremost position of the feed device, thus allowing alignment of the material to be cut in direct proximity to the cutting plane.

Abstract: A scribe-and-break tool for fracturing the free end of an optical fiber that is especially suitable for hand-holdable configurations and field use which has an elongate body with a plunger that is interrelated to a blade for scribing the free end of an optical fiber retained in tension within a depressible head that extends outward from the body and is depressible inward to bring the free end of the optical fiber into contact with the blade, thereby scribing the free end of the fiber causing the free end to break off.

Abstract: A convenient, contamination-free dental floss dispenser assembly having a housing and at least one roll of dental floss mounted for rotation therein. The housing having a dental floss dispensing orifice and cut-off means for cutting off pieces of the dental floss. The floss being free from engagement with the housing and spaced away by at least one-half inch from the housing when the floss extends from the orifice to the cut-off means. Accordingly, the floss free of retaining means, may be gripped by the fingers without touching or contaminating any other part of the housing. The dispenser may also incorporate a means for securely holding the assembly against movement without engagement of the housing by either hand during the dispensing and cutting off of the floss.

Abstract: A cage member arranged for supporting a mixing bowl is utilized in automatic mixing machines and includes an annular band having a base plate positioned below the annular band in a coaxially aligned relationship, with a plurality of support bands extending from the base plate to the cylindrical band. L-shaped locking flanges are pivotally mounted in a spaced relationship about the cylindrical band for positioning over an upper edge of an associated bowl structure. A modification of the invention includes the base plate resiliently mounted onto an underlying positioning cup for disengagement of a bowl captured between the base plate and the locking flanges.

Abstract: A rubber tire component reclamation technique which provides tire rubber fragments classified according to size. Preferred apparatus for rubber tire component reclamation includes a feed hopper for receiving pieces of discarded tires, a granulating chamber coupled to the feed hopper for cutting the received pieces into smaller fragments, and an exit chute providing an output from the granulating chamber through which tire fragments fall. An air flow is induced upwardly through the exit chute to urge the less dense components such as yarn and fabric upwardly against gravity and out of the upper portion of the chute. The air flow is of sufficient force to prevent commingling and compaction of the less dense components with the remaining components of the tire fragments. A magnetized drum is located near the lower end of the exit chute for segregating the ferromagnetic components of the tire fragments.

Abstract: A method for cutting at least one elongated workpiece (13b) with a saw head assembly (10b) having a cutting blade (11b). The saw assembly (10b) further includes a guide mechanism for providing relative guided movement between the cutting blade (11b) and the workpiece (13b) along a cutting line (14b). The method comprises the steps of placing the workpiece (13b) across the cutting line (14b). Further, moving at least one of the cutting blade (11b) and the workpiece (13b) along the cutting line (14b) from a starting position (28b) on one side (27b') of said workpiece (13b) to a parked position (37b) on an opposite side (27b) of the workpiece (13b). In the parked position, the entire cutting stretch is positioned beyond the workpiece (13b). Next, the cut part or portion (32b) is displaced away from the cutting line (14b) using the workpiece (13b), while the cutting blade (11b) is in the parked position (37b).

Abstract: A perforated web transporting and separating system in which two longitudinally spaced drive mechanisms move the web, an upstream drive and a downstream drive. A platen supports and guides the web; the platen has two sections, and one section can be slightly rotated in the plane of the web with respect to the other section. In separating the web along a row of perforations, the web is driven to a point where the row of perforations is between the platen sections. The upstream drive is stopped while the downstream drive continues to attempt to drive the web, creating a tension in the web across the row of perforations. With the web in tension, one section of the guide platen is articulated relative to the other, tearing the web along the tensioned row of perforations.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for dividing a flat glass panel (14) are described. The panel (14) which is to be divided and which is raised away from its substrate is securely held in its part regions by two clamping devices (10, 12) which are pivoted in opposite directions about a common pivot axle (4) and thus exert on the panel (14) a bending resulting in breakage along the score line (30). Simultaneously exerted on the clamping devices (10) which are, moreover, arranged to be displaceable in the direction of their connection line is a force which presses the clamping devices apart and which at the moment of breakage of the glass panel results in the two part panels moving apart, so that the broken edges cannot strike against one another. The part panels can be deposited again on a substrate after breaking. The invention further provides for marginal strips to be broken off the panel (14) to be divided, in the raised state thereof directly before dividing.

Abstract: A sawing machine having a spindle and circular saws thereon adapted to rotate with and axially slidably mounted on the spindle. A movable joint member or a one-way clutch is provided between the spindle and the saws. While the spindle is rotating at a low speed or is at a stop, the joint member or the clutch is in its inoperative position, keeping the saws disengaged from the spindle so that the distances between the adjacent saws can be adjusted freely. When the spindle begins to rotate at a high speed, the joint member is moved outwardly or the clutch is engaged by centrifugal force, thus locking the circular saws to the spindle.

Abstract: A method of reducing the oil content of cuttings, in which the cuttings are introduced into a drum-shaped space, where an elevated temperature is predominant and subjected to a hammering treatment in that space and the drum-shaped space is permanently heated from without so that during the performance of the hammering treatment the temperature in the interior is maintained in the vicinity of, but below, the cracking temperature of the oil in the cuttings to be treated, while further the pressure in the spaces is maintained at a value of at least 0.3 bar gauge.

Abstract: The subject invention relates generally to devices for facilitating the temporary attachment of objects to a steering wheel and has particular reference to a device for removably attaching a fly tyer's vise to a steering wheel or other suitable structure. The preferred embodiment consists of a flat strip of metal bent into the shape of a "U" or a "V" and treated so as to achieve a non-skid, protective surface. Several rubber "spacers" may accompany the device for adaptation to structures smaller in diameter than the standard boat or automobile steering wheel; the device sides may also be indented or expanded to obtain a more secure fit. The device is sufficiently wide to accommodate an optional variety holes and notches for holding fly tying equipment. A piece of impressionable, foam rubber-like material can be attached to the device for stowing completed flies. The device is slipped around a steering wheel, open end facing out.

Abstract: A sheet perforating punch formed of hard polymeric material formed of a punch plate with punching teeth and a die plate with holes intended to be registered with the teeth, snap-together hinging being provided for rotatably coupling the two plates together along respective edges thereof so that the registration of corresponding ones of the holes and teeth are fixed and so that no discernible relative axial displacement or travel of the two plates is permitted.

Abstract: A lower jaw 4 is tiltably connected to the front end of a swing arm 3, an upper jaw 6 openably and closably connected to the lower jaw 4, a hydraulic cylinder 8 interposed between the upper and lower jaws to open and close the jaws, and a protective cover 11 connected to the lower jaw 4 by a link 12 and to the upper jaw 6 by a pin and adapted to follow the opening and closing movement of the upper jaw 6 by a pin while covering the piston rod 10 of the hydraulic cylinder 8. A plurality of straight lower cutting blades are formed on the upper surface of the front end of the lower jaw 4 and a plurality of pointed upper cutting blades 7 are formed on the lower surface of the front end of the upper jaw 6. These upper and lower cutting blades are disposed to mesh with each other in zigzags as viewed from the side. When the upper and lower jaws are closed, concrete is finely broken in the clearances between the upper and lower cutting blades.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the operation of a skewed orbiting saw which is employed for transversely cutting continuously advancing elongated lengths of multi-ply material into shorter lengths, the means for varying the speed of advance of the lengths of material.

Abstract: An apparatus for bonding thin film supplied from a continuous roll to at least one bonding surface along the entire length of a discrete printed surface base plate and efficiently cutting the film to a proper length which covers an entire planar surface of the board. Each board is conveyed to a film bonding position and the leading end of the continuous film is transported to the film bonding position that is held by suction. A compression bonding roller moves across the surface of the board and automatically feeds film and bonds the film to the board while leaving a portion of the film loose over the trailing end of the board. A cutter comprising a rotary blade and a fixed blade disposed across the direction of movement of the film and the board is mounted on a slide bed which is moveable towards and away from the film. The rotary blade is obliquely oriented in order to permit the cutting of the film when the blade is rotated in opposition to the fixed blade.

Abstract: A radial arm saw guard with operational interlock and adjustable outfeed user barrier is disclosed. The radial saw includes a motor driven saw blade that is mounted on a yoke depending from a supporting arm that overhangs a worktable. The motor driven saw blade is movable relative to a worktable mounted fence in order to enable the motor driven saw blade to be operated for rip cutting of workpieces longitudinally relative to the fence and for cross cutting transverse relative to the fence. A blade guard is mounted in fixed position relative to the yoke for covering at least approximately an upper half of the motor driven saw blade. An adjustable outfeed user barrier is mounted to the upper blade guard for operation between an upper disengaged position exposing the motor driven saw blade and a lower engaged position covering an outfeed end of the motor driven saw blade to protect a user during rip cutting.