Abstract: A self-contained machine for simultaneously slicing and perforating severally the baked goods, such as English muffins, bagels, buns, rolls or the like, in two rows; the machine including a framework on which are mounted but a single motor, a split belt conveyor, a slicing station and a perforating station, and drive mechanisms severally operatively connecting the motor with the conveyor, slicing station and perforating station, the slicing station including a horizontal serrated wheel and guide cooperating with one of the split belts and each other for proper slicing of the baked goods in one row, and the perforating station including a cleated belt arranged on edge, a perforating member and a guide cooperating with the other split belt and each other, for proper perforating of the baked goods in the other row.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of trimming a travelling web of paper along the longitudinal direction of the web comprising transporting the web through a trimming station and continuously trimming said web in said station, wherein said method comprises supporting a portion of said web on a support surface in said station such that a portion of said web to be trimmed off overhangs an edge of said support surface, contacting said overhanging portion of said web with a travelling endless member which crosses the edge of the said support surface to trap the overhanging portion of the web between the endless member and a tearing support member adjacent said edge to shear said overhanging portion continuously from the web.

Abstract: A machine for destroying used syringes. A box includes a pair of bearing rods extending internally thereacross which slidably receive a carriage having a pair of spaced apart knives mounted thereto. A funnel mounted within the box is positioned beneath an aperture provided in the top wall of the box to receive the syringe to be destroyed. A pair of clamps mounted beneath the funnel releasably hold the syringe as the carriage moved by a linear actuator forces the knives to engage and sever in multiple locations the syringe. The clamps release the severed syringe allowing the parts to fall into a container removably positioned within the box.

Abstract: A device for the destruction of an injection needle has a sleeve (6; 14) in which the needle (3) mounted on a syringe may be inserted. The sleeve includes projections (9; 16) located beneath one another and projecting from opposite sides towards the path of movement of the needle within the sleeve. The projections are forced, by means of an actuator (5; 16) which is movably disposed in the sleeve and, as a result of engagement with the needle holder (4) is entrained in the movement of the needle, to move towards and into the path of movement of the needle so that the needle is bent or broken between these projections and is, in such a manner, rendered unusable.

Abstract: A method for feeding plant cells in a planting machine, whereby a unified line of cells consisting of plant cells connected to each other is detached from a unified cell sheetcomprising plant cells, the unified line of cells is shifted downwards on upwards through cutting apparatus which direct a cutting effect at the joints between the individual plant cells in the unified line of cellseither from the same direction or from the opposite direction as compared with the direction from which the plant cells are supported during the shifting, in order to cut the cells in the line of cells loose from each other, and the detached plant cells are passed to a distributor in order to feed the plant cells as separated from each other to the planting device. The cutting loose of the plant cells takes place totally automatically when the plant cells are shifted from the cell sheet to the distributor, and does not require any extra movements for cutting loose.

Abstract: In a manufacturing operation, a stretched diaphragm is used to support a quantity of small parts which are individually secured to the diaphragm in predetermined spaced relation. An individual part is elevated relative to the remainder of the array, for purpose of inspection or test, by displacing and even further stretching the associated portion of the diaphragm; then it is permitted to return to its original place in the array. When the parts are to be incorporated into manufactured assemblies each selected part is again elevated by displacing and stretching the associated portion of the diaphragm. The method is applied to the manufacture of microminiature electric circuits in which a flat wafer is first formed, and the wafer is then cut into a number of chips which must be individually tested and then they are incorporated into circuit assemblies.

Abstract: A stationery burster having substantially abutting, rotatably mounted, first and second infeed rolls, substantially abutting, rotatably mounted first and second outfeed rolls spaced from the infeed rolls along a path of stationery travel and a relief in the peripheral surface of the first infeed roll. A rotatable drive is provided for the second infeed and second outfeed rolls such that the peripheral speed of the second outfeed roll with be greater than that of the second infeed roll. The first rolls in each set are idler rolls. The spacing between the infeed and outfeed rolls may be adjusted to accommodate stationery of differing form lengths.

Abstract: Methods for separating and stacking sheets of paper, cardboard and the like delivered from sheet punching machines and consisting of useful and waste portions connected together by small fillets are disclosed. The methods include supplying punched but unseparated sheets onto a severing table, severing the sheets in order to form separate stack portions and depositing these separate stack portions onto a stacking surface after withdrawing the severing table from under the stacked portions.

Abstract: A muffin holder and safety guard comprising a box-like member having an open end and dimensioned to receive a muffin separator therein. The holder and safety guard further includes means for releasably holding a muffin or like bakery product within the holder. When a muffin separator is inserted into the box-like member the muffin is impaled on prongs of the muffin separator, and when the muffin separator is withdrawn from the box-like member the muffin is released for subsequent separation.

Abstract: A cutting device for cutting sheets of material wherein a cutting member co-operates with a bed of upstanding pins which support the sheet. Although the cutting member may be a knife, it is preferably composed of a line of upstanding pins which are sufficiently long to penetrate through the material to be cut and to enter the bed of upstanding pins. The cutting device may comprise two drums mounted for rotation in opposite senses about parallel axes, one drum carrying the cutting member and the other the bed of pins, the tips of the pins being aligned with the cylindrical surface of their associated drum.

Abstract: Gapping apparatus includes offset knife sets adapted on closing to break the legs of the U-shaped fastener elements in the desired gap zone. Cutters are also provided to sever the end cords of the elements so that parts of the fastener elements in the gap area are completely liberated upon the opening of the apparatus. Indexing means are provided.

Abstract: A machine for slicing rolls between the tops and bottoms thereof while arranged in clusters of a predetermined number of separably adjoined rolls by cutting into one side of the rolls in such clusters along but spaced from a longitudinal joint between adjacent rolls in said clusters. The slicing is effected by a plurality of disc type knives supported on the lower ends of vertical spindle shafts supported in a cutter head frame mounted above a conveyor which feeds clusters of rolls to said knives, said spindle shafts being rotatably supported within bearings in a plurality of bearing blocks adjustable between opposite sides of said cutter head frame by coengaging worm and worm gear means operable readily by manually-engageable members supported adjacent the forward end of said cutter head frame.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for stripping a protective coating from multi-conductor flat ribbon containing a plurality of parallel, spaced optical fibers. The ribbon is clamped to the periphery of a rotatable cylindrical stripping wheel and a cutting blade is brought into contact with, and cuts into, a portion of the protective coating. The stripping wheel is rotated to cut the protective coating while simultaneously optimally bending the fibers preparatory to subsequent fiber breaking operation.An alternative embodiment is directed to shaving a small section of the protective coating and capturing that section in a clamp. The clamp is moved away from the ribbon to peel a portion of the protective coating therefrom as the cylinder is simultaneously rotated to optimally bend the fibers preparatory to the fiber breaking operation.

Abstract: 1. A method of inducing rapid failure in a shape that is under stress and is composed of cold rolled steel comprising applying against a surface of said cold rolled steel shape a mixture composed of lithium metal, lithium chloride and potassium chloride, rapidly heating that mixture as well as the surface of the steel shape in contact therewith sufficiently to melt the mixture but below the annealing temperature of the steel, and maintaining that temperature until the steel shape cracks.

Abstract: A chopper for severed margins of multi-folded paper is provided wherein the margins are slit off the sheet and then chopped into small pieces which occupy a minimum amount of space and which present a simplified disposal problem.