Abstract: Equipment for continuously slitting metallic tapes into longitudinal strips f sinusoidal-like shape including a pair of slitting cylinders, a motor for rotating the cylinders, the cylinders having a set of blades with shaped peripheral cutting edges, the blades being positioned on the cylinders in superimposed and staggered relationship to provide cooperative shear-type cutting action, the cutting edges of the slitting cylinders being alternatively in facing and non-facing relationship to each other, the blades being formed as bells provided with central and axial bores for receiving between an inner surface thereof and supporting shafts a spacer ring, a radially elastic couple between two of the blades facing each other, and a spacer element between two of the blades which are in non-facing relationship to each other.