Abutment Interposed In Path Of Free Fall Or Flight Of Product Patents (Class 83/166)
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Publication number: 20150082954Abstract: A method for cutting manufactured articles (M) comprises steps of advancing a manufactured article (M) along an advancement direction (A) at a predetermined speed; predisposing a cutting device (3) associated with the manufactured article (M) and movable along the advancement direction (A); advancing the cutting device (3); synchronizing the speed of advancement of the cutting device (3) with the speed of advancement of the manufactured article (M); activating the cutting device (3); retracting the cutting device (3); the steps of synchronising and activating the cutting device (3) are comprised between the advancement step and a corresponding retracting step in order to define a cutting cycle of the manufactured article (M). The cutting cycle comprises further steps of re-synchronising the speed of advancement of the cutting device (3) with the speed of advancement of the manufactured article (M).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2013Publication date: March 26, 2015Applicant: FIVES OTO S.P.A.Inventors: Andrea Anesi, Aleardo Chezzi, Gianluca Vecchini
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Patent number: 8613562Abstract: A printer with a cutter is provided that can discharge cut-offs in a stable condition. A printer includes a transportation path, a transportation mechanism that conveys a recording medium along the transportation path, a fixed knife having a cutting edge, a movable knife having a cutting edge and moving between a standby position and a cutting-completed position, and an exit disposed along the transportation path. The exit includes a narrow opening defined by a first elongated side offset from the transportation path beyond the movable-knife cutting edge in the cutting-completed position, and a second elongated side opposite the first elongated side and offset from the transportation path opposite to the first elongated side. The second elongated side can be located immediately adjacent to the transportation path, for example, by less than or equal to 2 mm.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2010Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Motoyoshi Shirotori, Shinsuke Tomomatsu
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Publication number: 20130220092Abstract: A saw (100) includes a sawdust collection assembly (2) having a chute (10) made of a material having a stretchability to be shaped responsive to movement of a blade housing (102) into a moveable sawdust path. An upper end (40) of a top portion (6) of the chute (10) is removably and reattachably engaged with a top attachment member (36) mounted to the blade housing (102). A bottom portion (8) of the chute (10) is removably and reattachably engaged with a bottom attachment member (26) mounted to a rear side (106C) of a fence (106) of the saw (100). Two side edges (44, 46) of the top portion (6) are respectively attached by two side tension cords (18) to left and right sides (106B, 106A) of the fence (106). One of the side tension cords (18) can be used with a tension block (20, 28) to form a tensioning system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2013Publication date: August 29, 2013Inventor: Richard F. Keenan
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Publication number: 20120017735Abstract: A cutting tool includes a tool unit having a rotary cutting blade, a movable cover configured to cover the rotary cutting blade, and a rotary support member mounted to the tool unit and rotatably supporting the movable cover about a rotational axis. The rotary support member and the movable cover has contact surfaces that slidably contact with each other or slidably contact with contact surface of an intermediate member interposed between the rotary support member and the movable cover. At least one of the contact surfaces includes a groove formed therein, so that the groove can receive cutting powder or chips produced by the rotary cutting blade during a cutting operation and entering between the movable cover and the rotary support member.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2011Publication date: January 26, 2012Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiko INAI, Toshiyuki KANI, Syuji AOYAMA, Shinichiro TOMITA
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Patent number: 7987751Abstract: A sheet trimming apparatus including: a trimming section provided with a trimming cutter blade for trimming a sheet bundle; a paper scrap container for storing paper scraps separated from the sheet bundle by the trimming cutter blade; and a paper scrap guide member, which is provided to create a falling space where the paper scraps are made to fall from the trimming section to the paper scrap container, wherein the paper scrap guide member assumes a first state for expanding a gap in the falling space, and a second state for creating an inclined surface for guiding the paper scraps to fall.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2007Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Shiokawa, Hiroyuki Wakabayashi, Masaaki Uchiyama
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Patent number: 7735402Abstract: In one embodiment, a charge removal member 120, which removes static electricity built up on paper waste 130, is disposed in a collecting container 63 used for collecting the punch waste 130 generated by punching transported paper. The charge removal member 120 is disposed in an open top portion of the collecting container 63, in a location corresponding to a hole-punching punch 64 disposed in the punching unit 60, with a proximal end portion 121 of the charge removal member 120 supported by the collecting container 63 and the distal end portion of the charge removal member 120 forming charge removal comb-shaped needles 122 extending towards the central portion of the collecting container.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2007Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaru Tsuji, Jinichi Nagata, Hideo Yoshikawa, Hidetoshi Kaneko, Kouzou Yamaguchi, Masayuki Nagatani
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Patent number: 7673545Abstract: A tissue slicing device is comprised of parallel circular blades coaxially connected to a rotary shaft. The blades are separated by gaps. A guide member is supported by a hinge adjacent the blades. An adjustment screw is positioned behind the guide member to control the distance between the guide member and the blades. The device includes a tissue carrier which is comprised of a base member and parallel plates extending from a top side of the base member. The plates are spaced to correspond with the gaps between the blades. Holes in the plates are aligned to define a tissue chamber for receiving a tissue sample. When the tissue carrier is positioned on the guide member and the blades rotated to drive the tissue carrier along the guide member, the tissue chamber is driven into the blades so the tissue sample is simultaneously cut into a plurality of slices.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2005Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Inventors: Richard T. Giberson, Robert L. Honan
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Patent number: 7565855Abstract: A sales slip printer for segments (26) that are to be separated from a continuous paper strip (14) with a V-shaped knife (18) and a stacking tray (24) for the segments (26) separated from the continuous paper strip (14) located behind an output channel (12), which is separated from the output channel (12) by projections (28) extending in the side edge areas of the output channel (12), and a slide (30), which pushes through the already separated edges of the continuous paper strip (14) into the stacking tray (24) between the projections (28) during a cutting action.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2006Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: Wincor Nixdorf International GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Malke, Andreas Jeschke, Wilfried Dobring
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Patent number: 7267036Abstract: A device for separating individual containers from a group of multiple containers and delivering the separated individual container for further processing is shown. The device relies in part on gravity for the movement of the containers.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2004Date of Patent: September 11, 2007Inventors: Wayne R. Barr, Rory Westlund, Paul O. Wright, Kelly Mc Gaughey
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Patent number: 7210384Abstract: A punch and die tooling apparatus commonly used by metal fabricators for creating holes, passages and cavities in metal plate, the die having a unique internal bore which relieves the problem of slug pulling to ensure that a slug punched out of a metal sheet is not retained on the punch face to interfere with further operation of the apparatus. The die is provided with a substantially horizontal ridge and a corresponding horizontal land and relief space formed within the bore to facilitate tipping of the slug relative to the punch and thereby break any attachment between the slug and the punch face which causes slug pulling.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2004Date of Patent: May 1, 2007Assignee: Degelman Industries Ltd.Inventor: Morris Elynuik
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Patent number: 6968763Abstract: The invention provides an apparatus and method for orienting a part detached from a web of parts. The apparatus and method use a duct with at least one interior sloped side to orient the part in a substantially vertical orientation. The invention further provides an apparatus for stacking a plurality of flexible circuits. The apparatus includes a container having a contoured end that causes the flexible circuits to stack upon the contoured end.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2002Date of Patent: November 29, 2005Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Fletcher L. Chapin, John E. Kozol
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Publication number: 20040187663Abstract: An improved unloading apparatus for a plate-like workpiece cutting machine includes a platform, a faceplate, a lift device, and an intermediate member. The platform is provided with a channel recessed downwards from a top side thereof. The faceplate is mounted on the top side of the platform to seal the channel for putting to-be-machined plate-like workpieces thereon and is provided with a plurality of through holes. The lift device is mounted below the faceplate and includes a power unit and a supporting member, which can be driven to lift and lower by the power unit. The intermediate member is disposed with a plurality of locating columns corresponding in locations to the through holes of the faceplate and is mounted on a top side of the supporting member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2003Publication date: September 30, 2004Applicant: SOGOTEC ENTERPRISE CO., LTDInventor: Min-Hsiung Hsieh
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Patent number: 6612211Abstract: An apparatus is provided for processing mail by severing an edge of each envelope in a stack of mail. The apparatus includes an input bin for receiving a stack of mail. An agitator confronting the stack of envelopes in the input bin reciprocally displaces the bottom envelope in the stack of mail to provide separation between the bottom envelope and the remaining envelopes in the stack. A feeder feeds the bottom envelope from the input bin to a transport that conveys the envelope along an envelope path. A cutter positioned along the envelope path severs one edge of the envelopes. The transport discharges the opened envelopes onto a return conveyor that conveys the opened envelopes to a stacking area where the opened envelopes are stacked.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1998Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Opex CorporationInventors: Dominic Stigliano, John Forbes, Thomas DiBiaso, Robert R. DeWitt
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Patent number: 6561067Abstract: A machine for cutting a food product includes a stationary structure with a food product guide surface for guiding a food product along a path of travel. A knife wheel support which rotatably supports the knife wheel and is pivotally attached to the stationary structure so as to pivot about a pivot axis extending substantially parallel to the knife wheel axis, such that the knife wheel axis is movable along an arcuate path about the pivot axis. A plurality of adjustable stripper plates extends between adjacent circular knives which slice the food product into a plurality of strips prior to the food product being cut by a cross-cut knife, the stripper plates having an adjustable attaching mechanism connecting them to the stationary structure to facilitate the adjustment of the distance between the stripper plates and the food guide surface so as to readily accommodate a food product having a variety of thicknesses.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2001Date of Patent: May 13, 2003Assignee: Urschel Laboratories, Inc.Inventor: Paul Earl Arrasmith
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Patent number: 6314849Abstract: An apparatus for cutting a food product is disclosed including a stationary structure with a food product guide surface for guiding a food product along a path of travel, the apparatus having a knife wheel rotatable about a knife wheel axis, the knife wheel having at least one knife blade and located such that rotation of the knife wheel about the knife wheel axis causes the knife blade to cut through the food product as it moves along the path of travel. The apparatus also includes a knife wheel support which rotatably supports the knife wheel, the knife wheel support being pivotally attached to the stationary structure so as to pivot about a pivot axis extending substantially parallel to the knife wheel axis, such that the knife wheel axis is movable along an arcuate path about the pivot axis.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 1997Date of Patent: November 13, 2001Assignee: Urschel Laboratories Inc.Inventor: Paul Earl Arrasmith
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Patent number: 5860343Abstract: A slicing machine for foods includes a circular knife with a peripheral cutting edge mounted rotatingly in a substantially vertical position on a machine housing. The knife defines a substantially vertical cutting plane. A knife protection ring is secured to the machine housing and surrounds a substantial portion of the cutting edge. A carriage for receiving a product to be cut is mounted on the housing on one side of the cutting plane for reciprocating movement in a direction parallel to the cutting plane. A scraper is arranged on an opposite side of the cutting plane to cover part of a face of the circular knife. The scraper is mounted pivotably about a pivot axis defined by a pivot bearing so as to be pivotable from an operating position to a cleaning position. The pivot axis is arranged above the center of the circular knife essentially horizontal and parallel to the cutting plane.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 1996Date of Patent: January 19, 1999Assignee: Bizerba GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Klaus Koch, Viktor Fecker
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Patent number: 5690008Abstract: A method for transferring rod sections from a flying shears to a cooling bed via a run-in table wherein electromagnetic coils are placed in hollow rollers at a downstream end of the run-in table to pull the leading ends of the rods onto the rollers and prevent bouncing of the rods whereafter braking force is applied to the trailing end of the rods before the rods are lifted by a lifting apron for transfer to the cooling bed. The rollers containing the electromagnetic coils are hollow and detachable to gain access to the interior of the rollers and the electromagnetic coils therein.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 1995Date of Patent: November 25, 1997Inventor: David Teng Pong
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Patent number: 5417133Abstract: A stamping and forming machine positively prevents slug pulling by stripping the slug off of the end of the punch as the punch is being withdrawn from the die opening after a blanking operation. This is accomplished by providing a die insert support in supporting contact with the die insert having an opening that is identical to the opening in the die insert, but that is rotationally or laterally displaced therefrom by a small amount. As the punch pushes a slug through the opening in the die insert, the slug encounters the displaced opening in the die insert support and is shifted slightly as it is forced into that opening by the punch. As the punch is withdrawn from the die insert opening, the shifted slug cannot return through the opening and is stripped off of the end of the punch.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 1994Date of Patent: May 23, 1995Assignee: The Whitaker CorporationInventors: Johannes C. W. Bakermans, Lawrence R. Holbrook, Brian J. Stumm
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Patent number: 5050470Abstract: A receiver for specimen slices, produced by slicing a tissue sample in a cryogenic microtome, includes an upper member pivotably attached to a lower member and forming a space therebetween for receipt of the specimen slices. Such receipt prevents curling and rolling of the slices, and facilitates easy transfer of the slices to an examination slide. The receiver is adapted to be pivotably and adjustably attached to the microtome, whereby it can be selectively pivoted away from the specimen slice receiving position, or otherwise adjusted for optimized tissue slice reception and storage.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 1989Date of Patent: September 24, 1991Inventor: John L. Ward
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Patent number: 5040441Abstract: A punching device has a base for placing papers thereon, a plurality of single hole device bodies fixedly arranged in one row in the horizontal direction at predetermined distances on the base. Each of the single hole device bodies is provided with a punching rod and an operation handle for moving the punching rod upward and downward. The punching device also has a communicating member for interconnecting the operation handles of the single hole device bodies. The papers placed on the base are punched by the simple upward and downward operation of the operation handles.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 1989Date of Patent: August 20, 1991Assignee: New Kon Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Miyashiro Tamura
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Patent number: 4706799Abstract: An apparatus for continuously forming a product having elongated members at least about one foot long which are oriented, compressed and bonded is provided. The apparatus deposits elongated members on a moving carrier with an orientation that is substantially parallel to the direction of movement of the carrier. The members are deposited on the carrier over a length of carrier that is at least as long as about one and one-half times the length of the elongated members and is at least as long as about 30 times the final thickness of the compressed, composite product.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 1985Date of Patent: November 17, 1987Assignee: MacMillan Bloedel LimitedInventors: Mark T. Churchland, Walter W. Schilling
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Patent number: 4300422Abstract: A modification to a reel type staple cutter that includes a compartmentalized assembly located below the cutter reel, each compartment forms an isolated cutting zone which reduces the opportunity for falling tufts of cut staple to mix and intermingle to form clumps which are difficult to open. The curved top plate of each compartment provides a downward force vector which assists gravitational forces and injected air to overcome centrifugal and adhesive forces tending to prevent staple from falling. Plates and baffles attached to a stationary shell located beneath the cutter reel split the cut fibers into discrete tufts despite the cohesive nature of the product and promote flow down and from each compartment.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1980Date of Patent: November 17, 1981Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventor: Jerry F. Potter