Abstract: The device includes a frame, a pair of circular blades having overlapping peripheral portions, and means for conveying tree lengths transversely toward the blades. The conveying means cooperate with a first blade to move the tree lengths to the overlapping peripheral portions of the blades where they are subject to a shear cutting action.

Abstract: A machine is disclosed for dressing in stretched condition continuous web materials on a plurality of frames, the machine comprising means for moving the continuous web through a given path intersecting the path of empty or stripped frames, provided with means for connecting thereto the continuous web after the path intersecting point, and wherein the means for moving the web through said given path comprise endless pin conveyors running on guides on the two sides of the machine and carrying the continuous web dressed on the pins at a predetermined tension.

Abstract: A device for dispensing, one by one, a series of bodies arranged in a row within sealed compartments of an elongated sheet material which must be severed between its compartments for individually releasing the bodies in their sealed compartments. A container is provided for housing a strip of the sheet material and the bodies carried thereby in the sealed compartments thereof. This container has a wall formed with a discharge opening. A manually operable structure is carried by the container opposite to the latter wall thereof for reciprocating movement by the operator from a rest position first in a forward direction away from the rest position and then in a rearward direction back to the rest position.

Abstract: A multiple saw assembly, for cutting small lumber components from longer lumber, having a pair of opposed saws, for forming component end angles, each mounted on a double pivot mounting to provide optimum saw engagement with lumber at various angles of cut. Lumber feed and hold down means provide uniform components for various widths of the components and various lengths of feed stock.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing staple fibers of a predetermined length from a substantially endless tow of fibers. The tow of fibers is fed onto needles carried in rows on a carrier under tension. The carrier is rotated past a cutting area and a depositing area. As the rows of needles pass the cutting area the tow of fibers is raised away from the surface of the carrier to enable cutting of the fibers by a cutter blade. The cut fibers are held by the needles until such reach the depositing area wherein the particular row of needles is retracted to deposit the cut fibers on a receiving means.