Abstract: Apparatus for manufacturing thin metal strip from a cylindrical metal workpiece includes rotatable workpiece support structure for concentrically mounting the workpiece, drive means for rotating the workpiece about its axis, holder means for supporting a cutting tool adjacent the peripheral surface of the cylindrical workpiece on the workpiece support structure, a cutting tool secured in the holder means, the cutting tool having a sharpened edge that is defined in part by a rake face that has a length of less than one millimeter, feed means for advancing the sharpened edge of the cutting tool transversely of the axis of the workpiece to peel a continuous thin metal strip from the workpiece, strip tensioning means for subjecting the strip to tension as it is peeled from said workpiece, and strip direction control means between the cutting tool and the strip tensioning means for varying the strip exit angle of the tensioned strip relative to the rake face of the cutting tool as the strip is being peeled from th

Abstract: Apparatus for shearing and coiling strip material, the apparatus including a rotatable mandrel adapted to receive strip material thereon, a first cutter in fixed position proximate the mandrel, and a second cutter removed from the mandrel in a first position but movable to a second position adjacent the first cutter to effect a cutting operation, the first and second cutters having, respectively, first and second guide surfaces which, when the second cutter is in the second position, form a substantially continuous entry surface adapted to urge a cut end of the strip material into engagement with the mandrel.