Abstract: This invention relates to a novel apparatus for cutting mats of compressible insulation materials arranged in stacks into small intricately shaped pieces which comprises an elevatable platform which raises the stack and compresses same against the undersurface of a rigid pattern supported in spaced relation beneath an overhead framework on uprights which are rotatable and include an offset portion sized and positioned to receive that part of the fabric cutter overhanging the axis of upright rotation regardless of the position of the cutter adjacent the edge of the pattern.

Abstract: This invention relates to a novel and improved method and apparatus used for the filling of small packets with a measured quantity of down which includes the steps of or the structure for sucking a measured quantity of down into a perforated cylinder closed at the lower end by a retractable gate, opening the gate while ejecting the down from the perforated cylinder by extending a plunger therein, blowing the down resting atop the extended plunger back into the hopper preparatory to retracting same, and reclosing the gate.