Abstract: When a tube is to be cut into a plurality of sections, a tube feed assembly is operated to rotate the tube and to move the tube along its longitudinal central axis into a work station. The tube and a mandrel move into a telescopic relationship at the work station. The tube feed assembly presses an end of the tube against a stop surface on a stripper at the work station. A plurality of knives are moved into engagement with the tube to cut the tube. Relative movement between the stripper and mandrel separates the sections of the tube from the mandrel. A scrap end section of the tube is directed to a scrap receiving location. Other sections of the tube are directed to a product receiving location.

Abstract: A horizontal cutter of double-bodied bottles attached to each other at a neck which comprises means (2) for advancing the bottles (3) and a cutting device (1) of the neck of the bottles. The cutting device (1) comprises a pair of blades (7), a pair of rotating plates (4) for drawing the bottles (3) along and a plurality of drive pulleys (9) in contact with the bottles (3), in such a way that as the rotating plates (4) move so do the bottles, at the same time rotating about their axes and in contact with the blades. The horizontal cutter ensures fast and effective cutting of the bottles, while occupying little space.

Abstract: A pipe cutter having non-rotating, overlapping knives is provided. Also provided is a pipe cutter having non-rotatable overlapping knives wherein one of the knives is continuously reciprocated.

Abstract: A can is disassembled by a disassembling apparatus for measurement of can seam dimensions. The can is composed of a can body and an end member which are coupled to each other by a can-seamed region. The can body has an end opening closed by the end thereby sealing the interior of the can. The disassembling apparatus comprises a can holding mechanism (3, 6, 9) for holding the can by gripping the end member and a bottom of the can body, a rotating mechanism (2), for rotating the can about its own axis which is held by the can holding mechanism, and a cutter (23) disposed so as to orient a cutting blade toward the axis of the can for cutting the outer circumferential edge region of the end member which externally surrounds a folded portion of the can body in the can-seamed region in a circumferential direction of the can.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a tool arrangement (5) which includes a parting tool (6) or the like which is intended to cut off or remove a machined section from the raw material (3) held firmly in a holding device (2). Located adjacent the parting tool (5, 6) on the side thereof that is proximal to the raw material (3) is a bifurcate device (7) which is intended to coact with the edge region (3b, 6b) of the raw material that lies proximal to the machined section, at least when parting of the machine section (3a) is completed, so that upon axial movement of the parting tool and/or bifurcate device a given length of raw material will be withdrawn from the holding device (2). The invention also relates to a method of moving the raw material out of the holding device.

Abstract: In a lathe of a type employing a movable main spindle, the main spindle (2) is moved in a leftward and rightward direction (Y-axis direction) perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the main spindle (2) after a workpiece (W) has been machined, and during the movement of the main spindle (2), the machined workpiece (W) is unloaded from the main spindle (2). At a position to which the main spindle (2) has further been moved, another workpiece (W) to be subsequently machined is loaded on the main spindle (2). The unloading of the machined workpiece (W) is carried out by a method in which the machined workpiece (W) is ejected by a workpiece eject means (7) built in a chuck (2a) in the main spindle (2).

Abstract: In an apparatus for cutting a tubular film into an elongated strip wherein the tubular film is fed at a given velocity in flattened form from a supply reel to an expansion zone where the film is expanded into a tube, advanced after such expansion along a mandrel, cut into a flat strip while advancing along the mandrel, and the flat strip is removed from the mandrel at an angle to the mandrel axis, the mandrel is hollow and air is introduced into the hollow mandrel under sufficient pressure that the flattened film is expanded into a relatively stiff cylindrical tube that makes a sliding fit with the mandrel and resists deformation while being supported thereon, Improved positive control over the film during its expansion and advance to the mandrel is achieved by means of moving surfaces, e.g. endless belts or roller arrays, that define a diverging expansion zone and are driven at a velocity equal to the velocity at which the film is fed.

Abstract: An automatic pipe cutting device chiefly cuts a metal pipe of small thickness. This pipe cutting device has a pipe fixing element for clamping and releasing the pipe and a pipe cutter incorporating cutting bits. A pipe cutting length adjuster means with a limit switch and an optical sensor and a pipe discharger are also provided. The pipe cutting device can automatically adjust the cutting length of the pipe, the fixing, the cutting and the discharging of the pipe.

Abstract: A trimmer apparatus (10) comprising dual moveable belts (64) and (90) for removing a dome scrap (12) from a hollow, blow molded plastic bottle (14), is described. The dual belts are supported on spaced apart pulley systems (20) and (22) forming a linear path (24) along which the bottle travels. The distance between the pulley system is adjustable for different size bottles. A groove (12A) on the dome scrap is engaged by the belts which are rotating in a similar direction. However, one belt is moving somewhat faster than the other. This provides for moving the bottle linearly along the path, while spinning the bottle. As the bottle spins past a knife blade (112) the dome scrap cut from the bottle.

Abstract: Flexible tubular film is helically cut into a flat strip by feeding the tubular film in flattened form from a supply source to a film feeding means advancing the flat film tube at a predetermined velocity to a tube expansion zone in which the flat tube is expanded into a generally cylindrical tube and passed axially over a hollow mandrel slightly less in external diameter than the diameter of the expanded tube to be cut helically while on the mandrel into a flat strop that is removed at an angle to the mandrel axis. The tube is expanded in the zone by inflation with air fed through the mandrel in a direction countercurrent to the direction of tube movement and under a pressure sufficient to render the expanded tube stiff as it slides over the mandrel and resistant to deformation while being helically cut.

Abstract: A tube positioning apparatus has at least one mandrel for positioning tubes for processing. A variable tube positioning stroke length is facilitated for optimizing stroke length and for optimizing the time required to position and process tube, such as by cutting. The tube positioning apparatus comprises a slide block having a mandrel attached thereto. The slide block is actuated on a plurality of slide rails from a first position to a second position. In the first position, the mandrel is retracted and in a second position the mandrel is extended for access by processing tools, such as circular knives for cutting the tube into desired lengths. A programmable sequence timer is provided for establishing desired time intervals during which the slide block and attached mandrel are in the retracted position or the extended position.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting a continuously manufactured tube including a knife-holder carriage which is movably mounted for translation and which is provided with a knife activator, a return mechanism for returning the carriage to an initial position following each cutting of a tube section, a driving mechanism for moving the carriage which includes a first driving motor and a first clutch system and a device for determining a section length of tube to be obtained operably connected to control the function of the first clutch system after each cutting based on the desired length of tube to be cut.

Abstract: A tube cutting apparatus includes a stopping element positioned inside the tubular blank to be cut. The stopping element is movable inside the tube to cutting position. The stopping member is transferred and held at the cutting position by a flexible member attached to the stopping member. A collecting member is provided to reel in and store the flexible member when the stopping member is moved to a stored position.

Abstract: A spin trimming machine for trimming the necks of objects that have a dome molded above the trim line of the object. The machine is capable of positioning the object being trimmed in a predetermined orientation with respect to its starting orientation. This is carried out by the adjustment of the position and angle of the knife, which adjustment can be carried out while the trimming machine is operating. Preferably, the trimmed objects drop onto a conveyor belt which is porous and a vacuum manifold draws air through the conveyor belt at the point where the object is separated from the dome which holds it.

Abstract: A tube cutting apparatus designed for use in severing predetermined lengths of stock from a continuously moving workpiece includes a reciprocating carriage assembly on which is supported a driving motor directly connected to a continuously rotating cutting assembly. The workpiece is fed to the cutting assembly through an axially extending bore in the motor shaft. In one embodiment, the driving motor is fitted with end plates having integrally formed guides thereon. The cutting assembly includes a plurality of pneumatically actuated pistons each of which has either a roller or a cutting wheel secured thereto, all of which cooperate to sever the predetermined lengths of stock from the workpiece. The pistons and associated cutting wheels and rollers are designed to be actuated into engagement in response to application of fluid pressure thereto and are retracted by operation of centrifugal force resulting from continuous rotation of the cutting assembly.

Abstract: A feeder is provided for feeding a plurality of adhesive tape roll stocks to a cutting section, a tape stock holding device having a plurality of shafts to be inserted into corresponding paper bobbins of tape stocks, and a cutting blade receiving shaft device having receiving shafts to be inserted into the corresponding bobbins, are provided. At the cutting section, the tape stocks are held by the shafts receiving shafts and chucks. Each tape shock is rotated by the chuck and cut by a disk cutter.

Abstract: An automatic cutter for separating a blow molded plastic object into two parts. The cutter is capable of cutting a rectangular object into two parts. The cutter operates by grasping the blow molded object to be cut and piercing the object with a knife blade or other cutting means such as a laser. The object is then rotated and the height of the cutter is controlled depending upon the degree of rotation and the shape of the object. The method of performing the cutting operation is also disclosed herein.

Abstract: A combination tool mounted at a work station on the turret of a CNC lathe includes a cut-off tool having a tool holder body supporting a carbide cutter insert at its forward end. A bar puller mounted on the tool holder body has a pair of vertically spaced apart and forwardly extending spring fingers which carry opposing adjustable bar gripping jaws. The jaws receive and grip the free end portion of an associated bar therebetween upon further movement of the combination tool toward the bar after the cut-off tool has completed a cut-off operation on the bar.

Abstract: The invention relates to a truncation apparatus and a process of truncating tubes. The truncation apparatus includes a mandrel, a means for advancing the tube to be truncated along the mandrel, at least one knife positioned in proximity to the free end of the mandrel, a slide moveably mounted on the mandrel and an exterior abutment whose distance with respect to the knife is adjustable, in addition to at least one reference system which is longitudinally adjustable adjacent the mandrel and defines predetermined and adjustable lengths between the front end of slide and the knife, and is provided with means to stop the longitudinal displacement of the slide in a manner so as to define a selected length for the last truncated portion of the tube. A method for truncating tubes wherein a length of tube is positioned on a mandrel and cut into at least a first section including one of the end edges of the tube and a last section including the other end edge of the tube.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting metallic tubing into predetermined lengths has a stationary supporting frame on which is mounted a feeding mechanism for moving a straight length of tubing unidirectionally intermittently along a straight path in alignment with the longitudinal axis of the tubing. A cutoff device driven by a motor having a hollow shaft for receiving the tubing is also mounted on the frame. The feeding mechanism is in two sections each being individually reciprocable but controlled to operate oppositely and alternately to feed tubing in predetermined lengths to the cutoff device. The cutoff device is operated to cut off the tubing while it is stationary between feeding movements of the feeding mechanism.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for armature stripping of wire from an electric motor armature having a shaft, a core including slots for winding wire therein and a commutator to effectively, efficiently and inexpensively salvage and recycle the armature is disclosed. The method includes the step of rotating the armature on its shaft on a carrier while simultaneously cutting the wound wire between the commutator and core a given depth with a rotating circular saw so that the combined steps of rotating the armature and cutting with a circular saw cuts all wires of the armature so that the wire may be easily removed from one end of the armature. The apparatus features a frame, a rotating circular saw and a guided carrier for loading and unloading a plurality of armatures on the carrier in a side-by-side relationship and rotatable thereon. The carrier is manually guided across the rotating circular saw so that the circular saw cuts the wound wire between the core and commutator a given depth.

Abstract: Apparatus for successive cut-off operations at axially spaced locations along an elongated tubular workpiece wherein the workpiece is rotated during cut-off operations and successively advanced axially between such operations. The cut-off operations occur at a work station where a front portion of the workpiece is successively advanced, rotated and severed with an elongated portion of the workpiece extending rearwardly from the work station. A pair of elongated guide and support rails extend adjacent the rearwardly projecting portion of the workpiece and mount a workpiece supporting mechanism which is freely moveable therealong toward and away from the work station. The mechanism comprises a freely rotatable collet assembly adapted to grip and release the workpiece. Operating means for the collet assembly comprise a handwheel, a gear train, and a shell cam which is rotatable through a limited angle and axially moveable at the urging of the handwheel and gear train.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting metallic tubing into predetermined lengths has a stationary supporting frame on which is mounted a feeding mechanism for moving a straight length of tubing unidirectionally intermittently along a straight path in alignment with the longitudinal axis of the tubing. A cutoff device driven by a motor having a hollow shaft for receiving the tubing is also mounted on the frame. The feeding mechanism is in two sections each being individually reciprocable but controlled to operate oppositely and alternately to feed tubing in predetermined lengths to the cutoff device. The cutoff device is operated to cut off the tubing while it is stationary between feeding movements of the feeding mechanism.

Abstract: The air dilution filter of the cigarette is provided with an annular zone in the plug wrap paper which enables air to pass directly into the fibrous body of the filter material after passing through apertures in the tipping paper.The annular zone can be comprised of a groove which is fabricated by a pair of rotating knives and a rotatable spacer with radial cutting edges which rout out material from each filter plug during conveyance of the plug on an alignment drum of a cigarette making machine. Alternatively, a plurality of closely spaced rotating knives which cut through the plug wrap paper only may be used to form a series of closely spaced annular grooves or slits in the filter periphery.

Abstract: An apparatus for radially cutting cylindrical material including three rollers mounted with a first frame which is pivotable about an axis of one of the rollers with respect to a second frame which carries a saw arbor. One of the rollers is driven in rotation by a motor, and is geared to the saw arbor to drive the saw blades in rotation. A second roller is movable with respect to the first frame and the first roller, and a third roller is mounted on a hydraulic cylinder to clamp the three rollers against the exterior surface of a cylindrical material. Axial grooves are located on the drive roller to facilitate driving of the material, and circumferential grooves are provided on one of the other rollers to prevent axial displacement of the material subsequent to clamping. A ball screw unit pivots the first frame with respect to the second frame to cause the saw blades to engage the material and make radial cuts into the material. A process for radially cutting cylindrical material is also disclosed herein.

Abstract: A machine for automatically cutting and dividing of cylindrical sleeves guided and supported on a drawoff spindle by means of a plurality of coaxially arranged rotary knives. The machine includes a transport arrangement for transporting an uncut sleeve onto the drawoff spindle where it is cut by the rotary knives and then transporting the now-divided sleeve onto an adjustable carrier sled which is transversely movably mounted relative to the axis of the drawoff spindle. The transport arrangement includes a pair of end pressure members which are movable toward and away from each other and which are adapted to grip the cut and uncut sleeve therebetween. The carrier sled includes a pair of adjustable parallel sleeve-receiving troughs which are adapted to be reciprocally mounted between precisely-defined relative positions with respect to the carrier sled and a rotary knife-supporting beam.

Abstract: An apparatus and method is adapted to provide the filter of a cigarette with an annular perpheral groove to enable air to pass directly into the fibrous body of the filter material after passing through apertures in the tipping paper. Ordinary plug wrap paper instead of a high porosity tea bag paper to wrap the fibrous filter material.The annular groove can be formed by a pair of rotating knives and a rotatable spacer with radial cutting edges which rout out material from each filter plug during conveyance of the plug on an alignment drum of a cigarette making machine. Alternatively, a plurality of closely spaced rotating knives which cut through the plug wrap paper only may be used to form a series of closely spaced annular grooves or slits in the filter periphery.

Abstract: The shaped block in the path of the fluid from the nozzle of a high pressure fluid jet to be located below the material to be cut or slit by a jet including, preferably, a curvo-linear passage or bore through the block having an entry port aligned with the nozzle for receiving and directing the flow of fluid from the jet after it has slit the material and preventing the fluid from returning to or splashing upon the material after it has entered the passage and a replaceable slug for insertion into the block in the area where the high pressure fluid impinges as it enters the passage.

Abstract: A simple, economical, drum-type tube cutting machine is disclosed which employs a conventional drum for high-speed automatic cutting of ordinary tubes and a special drum for high speed cutting of tubing which could not otherwise be cut satisfactorily because of special problems due for example to flimsy walls, excessive diameter or excessive wall thickness. The special drum employs a series of replaceable generally semi-cylindrical vanes which fit the tubes to prevent them from collapsing or moving out of position during the cutting operation and to hold them in position after they are cut so that internal supporting mandrels are not needed. The internal radius of the vanes is selected to match the external radius of the tubes being cut and is changed when the tube radius is changed.

Abstract: Method and device for loading cylindrical articles in a processing apparatus including a rotatable starwheel with pockets defined therein which carry the cylindrical articles and a plurality of mandrels aligned with the pockets for rotation with the starwheel such that the cylindrical articles may be axially transferred from the pocket onto the mandrel for processing, the device primarily comprising a plurality of conduit outlets which may be intermittantly connected through valve means to a compressed gas source to produce a jet of compressed gas at predetermined positions in the rotation of the starwheel pocket and onto the mandrel, and more preferably further including a vacuum passage through the mandrels which may be selectively connected to a vacuum source to work in synchronous with the compressed gas jet to provide both an internal vacuum and an external gas jet urging the cylindrical article onto the mandrel.

Abstract: The apparatus includes a cradle for holding long tubes desired to be cut into individual tubes of shorter length. The cradle is generally cylindrical and mounted for rotation about its axis. Tubes are mounted in the cradle at a loading position, and a controller actuates a motor for driving the cradle inrotation to a cutting position. A plurality of saws are mounted on a shaft extending parallel with the axis of the cradle and rotating at high cutting speed. When the cradle is revolved to bring the tube to the cutting station, the tube is engaged by a surface belt drive to spin the tube in the cradle for cutting. In the case of tubes having greater wall thickness, the cradle is stopped momentarily just as the tubes are brought into cutting relation with the saws so that a partial peripheral cut is made while the cradle is stopped. The cradle is then continued to be rotated to complete the cut and to bring the cut tubes back to the original position at high speed.

Abstract: Small-diameter vitreous cylinders, for example glass tubes, are maintained under lateral (radial) compression and are precision rolled through grinding wheels, thus fully separating the cylinders into as many cylindrical components as desired. The rolling is effected by maintaining several glass cylinders in laterally-adjacent relationship between a drive roller and a pressure sheet, the latter being under very substantial tension. Thin grinder wheels extend through slots in the pressure sheet and thereby grind completely through the rolling cylinders. The drive roller and pressure sheet continue to roll the substantially separated cylinders, in precise synchronism, so that there is no breaking but instead only grinding.

Abstract: An end-trimming apparatus for roll-like products. The apparatus trims both ends of a roll comprising a sheet-like material wound up on a core, particularly, stretchable one such as plastics film, by cutting off the irregularity of both the ends, finishing them into flat faces. It comprises a conveying means for carrying rolls horizontally to a given location, a supporting means of a pair of chucks for supporting the roll at both the ends, while providing it with a rotation in the winding direction of the roll, and a cutting means provided close to the pair of chucks, including a pair of disk cutters arranged co-axially and having respectively separate shafts parallel with the shafts of the chucks, the disk cutters being capable of moving toward and away from each other and of reciprocating in the direction at right angle to said toward-and-away motion.

Abstract: The length of segments cut from steel blooms that can be conveniently removed from a pass line in which a sizing gauge is positioned in close aligned relation to the pass line is increased by mounting the sizing gauge on a movable carriage. Support rollers forming a bloom receptacle are positioned on the carriage adjacent the sizing gauge and means are provided to move the carriage to each of two positions whereby either the sizing gauge or the receptacle is aligned with the bloom pass line.

Abstract: A washer cutting machine is disclosed wherein a sleeve of an elastomeric material suitable for use as a washer is placed on a mandrel and rotated. A predetermined length of the sleeve extends beyond the end of the mandrel, and a knife-edge moves in a radial direction to cut a ring from the end of the sleeve of a width such that it may be suitable for use as a washer. The machine is programmed so that the steps of loading the sleeve on the mandrel, cutting a washer from the sleeve, advancing the sleeve the width of a washer to be cut at the completion of each cutting operation, and stopping operation of the machine after the last washer has been cut therefrom, are all carried out automatically.

Abstract: Work pieces, particularly thin-walled shells of can dimension, are transferred from a magazine at a supply station to another station by a reciprocal shuttle having a pocket for receiving the shells in ready position at the supply station; at the other station, a reciprocal loader transfers the shell laterally from the shuttle to a work station where the work product is produced. The shuttle incorporates a second pocket to receive the work product and includes a surface for gating the supply magazine as an incident to shuttle travel. By locating the path of the shuttle above the path of the loader, it is possible to coordinate shuttle and loader movement for maximum utilization of time. Shells fed to the magazine are constantly aligned inside the magazine to assure effective bottom feed from the magazine to the shuttle.

Abstract: A banding machine for feeding sleeves of banding material onto bottle necks and the like when the sleeves are of tough material requiring use of a sharp cutting edge. The mandrel along which the tubular banding material is fed is formed to provide a radially outwardly opening groove at which the cutter cuts the material. The groove is closed when the mandrel and material are moved relatively.

Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus for efficiently and automatically cutting a length of tubing into a shorter length or lengths of tubes. The apparatus includes automatic devices to actuate and deactuate the tube cutters as well as printers used to code the cut tube lengths.

Abstract: A tube feeder has a longitudinal support equipped with two rows of wheels which support various diameter tubes and a loader for delivering tubes one at a time to the wheels. The loader comprises transverse tracks mounted on the longitudinal support and cooperating lifter blades associated with an inclined storage rack. The height of the longitudinal support is adjustable to locate the centerlines of various diameter tubes on the same fixed centerline. As the height of the longitudinal support is adjusted for a particular diameter tube, the loader is automatically adjusted to handle tubes of the same diameter.