Abstract: The invention comprises an improved cordwood cutting saw accessory for small garden tractors. The saw frame is proportioned and constructed to provide a safely operable saw attachment without the need for auxiliary stabilizing supports and level ground upon which to park the tractor and operate the saw.The saw frame is cantilevered from the front of the garden tractor the minimum horizontal distance necessary to support a circular saw blade and shaft adjacent the top of the tractor cowl. The elevation of the saw is substantially between the waist and shoulders of the saw user. The vertical height of the saw frame is equal or greater than the horizontal cantilevered length of the saw frame and two or more times the height from the ground of the cantilevered attachment to the tractor.

Abstract: A rotary cutting machine is provided for cutting vegetable products and the like, such as potatoes, into a plurality of smaller pieces, such as elongated shreds to form hashbrown potatoes. The cutting machine comprises a stationary cylindrical knife housing having about its periphery a plurality of axially extending open slots each lined on one side by a cutting knife. The product is supplied into an impeller mounted for rotation within the knife housing for centrifugally throwing the product into cutting engagement with the cutting knives. The impeller comprises a circular base plate closing one axial end thereof, an annular cover plate defining an enlarged central opening for admission of the product at the opposite axial end thereof, and at least one annular divider plate positioned axially between the base plate and the cover plate, all supported at their peripheries by a plurality of axially extending paddles.

Abstract: A helical or spiral-shaped food, particularly a potato, is produced by means of being cut in a way that a helical or spiral ribbon is produced having a series of loops around a center whereby the loops define a space from each other. The space corresponds to the shape of the loops and is filled with at least one similar, helical or spiral ribbon.

Abstract: The apparatus comprises a horizontally arranged bandsaw and one or more rotary meat holders arranged to feed primal cuts of meat downwards and onto the bandsaw to be cut into portions. A depth stop, which may be adjustable, determines the thickness of the cut portion. In a preferred form, the bandsaw is substantially totally enclosed and two meat holders are provided, one of which may be loaded while meat in the other is being portioned.

Abstract: A semi-portable tool for use with portable saws, routers and other power tools including a stand for holding the piece to be worked and a separate power equipment holder on a separate stand attached to the first stand. A carriage on the holder for the power equipment provides for different positioning of and for movement of the power equipment so that a number of different operations can be performed.

Abstract: A set of blades is held in the blade-supporting section of a base frame connected to a mounting section, which attaches it to a table surface with the blades overhanging the surface. A pusher head having a number of fingers is pivotally connected to the mid-portion of a handle which is rotatably mounted on the frame. A tilting linkage is rotatably connected to the pusher and to the frame for disposing the pusher more directly through the blades at the end of its stroke than if the pusher were rigidly attached to the handle. The chopped pieces pass directly to the container in a free space below the blade section of the frame. Pairs of struts and tilting linkages balance and stabilize the operating action.

Abstract: A cutting guide for use during cutting of work pieces, and especially flexible materials such as foam rubber and the like to insure precise, accurate arcs or curved paths in the work pieces. The guide includes a rotatable plate having an adjustable pivot assembly providing an axis or center of rotation with respect to a base or other support and upstanding, adjustably spaced, support walls which position the work piece for cutting. The base may be a portable plate or the table of a cutting apparatus such as a band saw or the like such that, in either case, the work piece may be supported adjacent a cutting tool such as a band saw blade or the like. The rotatable plate is rotated to move the work piece toward the cutting tool in a precise, controlled arc while the plate and support walls prevent the work piece from moving out of position. Apparatus for remote positioning of the pivot axis may be included.

Abstract: A portable band saw comprising a base having upstanding supports integral therewith, a U-shaped frame is pivotally supported on one of the upstanding supports, said frame has a pair of spaced apart pulley wheels rotatably attached thereto. A saw blade extends between the pulley wheels and is rotatable thereabout, and guide means is utilized whereby the saw blade extends therethrough and is guided and supported thereby. A motor, having a drive shaft, is attached to the U-shaped frame, said drive shaft is connected to one of the pulley wheels thereby rotating same and the saw blade which extends thereabout upon starting of the motor. A pivotable saw table having an arcuate slot therein is utilized to advance work to be cut toward the rotating saw blade. The U-shaped frame together with the pulley wheels, saw blade, saw blade guide and motor is removable as a unit from the outstanding support and usable in a fashion similar to other band saws.

Abstract: Apparatus for holding the head of an animal severed from its body for use in cutting the edible portions from the bones. The head is clamped between first and second members rotatably about a common axis and displaceable towards each other. The snout is received in the appropriately configured first member and a prong of the second member penetrates into the foramen magnum in the occipital bone. The rotation of the first and second members may be braked or arrested by a friction brake. To move the lower jaw away from the upper jaw in order to remove the lower jaw a hook member engaged the lower jaw and pulls it open by means of a foot-operated piston-and-cylinder unit. Another piston-and-cylinder unit forcibly drives the first and second members toward each other to firmly clamp the head therebetween.

Abstract: An attachment for cutting machine tools, such as band saws, spindle-shapers, sanders and the like, controlling the feed path of the workpiece to the cutting tool to form desired workpiece contours, such as circles, arcs and the like, has a grooved track bar easily locked on and removed from the machine bed or table carrying a slide in the groove which has a workpiece centering pivot pin projecting therefrom. A workpiece is either directly pivoted on the pin or secured to a templet pivoted on the pin and is rotated about its pivot support against the cutting tool. The slide may be locked in the groove at a selected distance from the tool, may be pushed against a stop at a selected position in the groove or may be shifted by a cam to control the feed path of the workpiece for forming desired contours. Circles of selected diameters, elipses of selected minor and major radii, heart shapes, four leaf clover shapes and the like are easily developed.

Abstract: The shredding of fibres in the form of bands or strands to staple fibres with short staple length and fibre velocities of up to 6,000 m/min is attained by winding the fibre tow around a cutting ring with adjustable blades and cutting up the fibre tow by pressure rollers pressing radially on the winding. The feeding of the fibre tow is synchronized with the pressure rollers, as these rollers are fixed in supporting discs which rotate above and below the cutting ring with the same velocity as the depositing nozzle.

Abstract: A device for cutting off the neck meat of a fowl in which the neck of the fowl is held on a support equipped with a suction hole for attracting the meat and the meat is cut by a blade disposed movably to face said suction holes of said support. Said cutting blade is a straight member and is allowed to reciprocate along the length of the suction hole.

Abstract: An improved impeller assembly for use in a vegetable cutter comprises a series of equally spaced impeller blades radiating from a central shaft. The blades of the impeller curve around the shaft as they extend along the shaft to form curved, cupped sections of the blade. The impeller assembly rotates within a hollow drum and the blades urge vegetables within the drum against a slabbing knife having its cutting edge positioned within the drum. The curve of the impeller blades is such that when vegetables are introduced into the drum, the impeller blades curve away from the vegetables. The force with which the vegetables contact the blades is thus reduced so as to avoid bruising the vegetables. The shape of the impeller blades also serves to properly align the vegetables within the drum prior to slicing. In a preferred embodiment, the interior of the drum has a series of grooves formed therein to assist in aligning the vegetables prior to cutting.

Abstract: Large diameter long rolls of soft, spongy resilient material, for example, such as "microfoam" padding and packaging material which are to be cut into narrower sub-rolls are positioned in a support frame having means for restricting the rotational movement of the roll in one direction in the frame. A long knife blade and its reciprocating drive are positioned on the frame and with the knife blade being initially tangentially disposed with respect to the periphery of the roll. The reciprocating drive is positioned for reciprocally driving and incrementally advancing the knife blade inward with the knife blade rotating the roll on the push stroke of the blade while cutting and advancing inward along an arc on the pull stroke of the reciprocating drive.

Abstract: A guard for preventing the operator's fingers from contacting the sharp edges of a parallel rack of blades in a food slicer, such as a tomato slicer is provided by a set of parallel planar segments intermeshed between and extending slightly in front of the sharp edges of the blades when the pusher is deployed away from the blades in position for introducing the object (tomato) to be sliced between the pusher and blades. A latch, such as a gravity latch, holds the assembly in the open guarded position until the tomato is introduced and the latch is released. In a rotary slicer a small portion of the blades adjacent the pusher are unguarded to facilitate introduction and prescoring of the tomato.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is shown for cutting logs into lumber by first cutting the logs into elongated wedge-shaped segments and then cutting the segments into boards. A pair of opposed spaced-apart chucks grip the ends of the log, and a saw mounted on a carriage makes longitudinal and radial cuts approximately to the center line of the log. The log is rotated incrementally by the chucks between cuts to produce the wedge-shaped segments. After all cuts have been made, the chucks release the segments and the segments are then resawn into boards.

Abstract: A slicing machine has a vertically extending semi-cylindrical cassette carrying objects to be sliced. A motor rotates a horizontal cutting blade and in addition swings the cassette about a vertical axis so that an object in the cassette is swept past the blade. The machine has an opening in its base to allow slices to fall out. On operation of a starter switch the motor functions for one revolution of the cassette. The switch is positioned so that it can be operated by a receptacle offered up to the opening.

Abstract: An improved fabric cutting machine for cutting tubular fabric into strip form having simplified and manually controllable adjustment devices for selectively controlling the rate of withdrawal of the tubular fabric from its source, the desired width of the strip to be cut and for synchronizing the rate of rotation of the feed means for advancing the fabric to the cutting apparatus with the rate of rotation of that portion of the machine which supports the source of tubular fabric.

Abstract: A horizontal base including a plurality of side by side horizontally spaced apart parallel guides is provided and a follower is selectively removably engageable with any one of the guides for guided movement therealong. A workpiece support is rotatably supported from the follower for angular displacement about an upstanding axis substantially normal to the plane containing the guides and the base is stationarily positionable on the horizontal table of a band saw or jig saw and a workpiece to have a constant radius arcuate cut made therein may be supported from the workpiece support and angularly displaced therewith in order that the blade of the saw may make the desired arcuate cut. The spacing of the parallel guide with which the follower is guidingly engaged from the blade of the saw determines the radius of curvature of the arcuate cut to be made.

Abstract: Apparatus for positioning the center points of circular arcs for accurately and precisely cutting such arcs in work pieces with band saws and the like. The device includes a base secured to the work support table of the saw and extending away from the saw blade. An arm is mounted at the end of the base, remote from the blade, and is spaced above the base. Also included are means with the arm for movably mounting a trammel point which engages and holds the center of the arc to be cut either on the work piece itself or on a holder therefor to determine the radius of the arc, as well as manual and power means for rotating the work piece about the trammel point.

Abstract: Slicing apparatus having a magazine with upright inwardly inclined product receptacles on a rotatable member for carrying comestible workbodies in a circular path past a rotating knife in a table recess to sever slices from the bottom of workbodies, table height adjustment for controlling the thickness of slices being severed, a unitary plastic or like guard for the knife, knife sharpening apparatus carried by the guard, and a guard surrounding the rotatable workbody carrier.

Abstract: A machine for cutting potatoes into multiple helical strips wherein the potato is rotated and moved toward a cutter having a series of parallel scoring knives projecting toward the potato and extending along a radial line with respect to the axis of rotation of the potato. A slicing blade likewise extending radially is disposed at right angles to the axis of rotation of the potato for continuously slicing off the scored portions. A carriage has a driving motor mounted thereon and the driving motor has a driven shaft which terminates in a potato-engaging and supporting element having prongs for engaging the potato to support the same and cause rotation thereof with said shaft. The machine has a base member to which the cutter is attached and the base member has longitudinal guide means at opposite sides thereof in which the carriage is guided for free longitudinal movement toward and away from the cutter in a direction parallel to the axis of rotation of the potato.

Abstract: Box capacitors are loaded onto an in-line track feeder with the capacitor leads extending downward between a pair of tracks. Vibration of the tracks moves the capacitors thereon so that the capacitor leads pass between the meshing teeth of a drive gear and an idler gear that is caused to turn by the former. The tracks are spaced from the gears to prevent damping of vibrations of the former. The leading edges of the teeth on the gears have a radius thereon for providing smooth feeding action of the capacitor leads between the gear teeth. The drive gear also has a chamfer on the top edges of the teeth thereof to reduce the possibility of jamming on components with bent leads. A disk is attached to the underside of the idler gear for cutting the component leads to a prescribed length as they pass between the disk and the drive gear. The ends of the teeth on the idler gear are truncated such that a cut lead is compressed into a valley between teeth on the drive gear to thereby straighten these leads.