Abstract: An assembly for automatically feeding workpieces to and from a numerically controlled turret punch. A loader magazine having an adjustable volume for receiving a stack of workpieces is disposed on one side of a turret punch, and an unloader magazine having a similar adjustable volume for receiving a stack of workpieces is disposed on the opposite side of the turret punch. An ejector associated with a loader magazine ejects the top workpiece from the loader magazine to horizontally feed it into operative association with clamps of the turret punch. The turret punch clamps are moveable with respect to the punching tools, and the punching tools are moveable and operated to effect punching of the workpiece until it has a desired finished configuration.

Abstract: An apparatus for the perforation of tracks of goods which are transportable approximately in their plane, particularly of thermoplastic synthetic material foils, with at least one sleeve-shaped punching tool which is moveable back and forth relative to the track of goods perpendicularly to the plane of transportation and parallel to its longitudinal axis, with a coaxially arranged pin which engages in the hollow punching tool for discarding the stamping cuttings, with a carrier of the track of goods arranged on the side of the track of goods which faces away from the pin, the carrier extending crosswise to the direction of transportation, and a carrier of the pin arranged parallel to the carrier of the track of goods and extending over its entire width. The carrier of the pin which serves as the ejector of the stamping cuttings carries the punching tool beyond the pin.

Abstract: A tool for preparing the ends of optical fiber waveguides prior to such operations as coupling and splicing. The tool is adapted for single-handed operation and comprises a pair of manually actuated handles, first and second fiber supporting surfaces, and a third fiber supporting surface between the first and second surfaces. The optical fiber waveguide is secured to the first and second surfaces by a pair of clamping members which are responsive to the squeezing of the handles. Once the fiber waveguide is secured to the surfaces, further squeezing of the handles produces separating rotation of a pair of jaw members to put the fiber under tensile stress. A cutting blade suspended above the third surface is released to produce a peripheral microcrack on a portion of the optical fiber waveguide lying on the third fiber supporting surface.

Abstract: A mat cutter employing a razor blade and providing protection against the blade's bending towards either of its sides. The cutter, used for preparing mats for photographs and other art objects, has a base upon which it sits and a section which slopes upward. A holder for a razor blade pivotally attaches to the sloping section and can rotate the blade into and out of a cutting position. When in its cutting position, the blade fits inside of a slot in the base and extends beyond only enough to effect the 45.degree. desired cut. The two sides of the slot prevent the blade from flexing towards either of its flat sides. With the blade thus surrounded and hidden from view, the cutter also employs a marking device that allows the proper placement of the cutter from a mat's edge to cut along a desired line. The cutter also includes starting and stopping marks so that it may produce a cut of the desired length using similar lines along the other sides of the mat.

Abstract: A high bulk traveling web paper slitter for slitting a traveling web of a single layer or multiple layers with an unwinder for supplying the web and web processing equipment such as winders, sheeters, printing presses, etc., which take up the web and a slitting station having upper and lower rotating sharp edged slitting blades for slitting moving webs, and both the upper and/or lower sections can incorporate web support means with either or both driven independently or by the web and having drum surfaces on each side with the means suppporting the web reducing the dust, and the blades and support means being axially adjustable in position.

Abstract: A single fluid power operated piston connected to a tool operating arm pivoted intermediate its opposite ends, undergoes movement through a predetermined stroke between limit positions to alternately perform punching and shearing operations at spaced stations along a common support bed of a metal working machine. The tool operating arm is held in one of its limit positions by the piston device under control of a selector valve while a foot pedal operated valve is displaced against a spring bias by the operator to effect powered displacement of the piston device to the other limit position in order to effect either a punching or shearing operation depending on the position of the selector valve. A shearing operation may also be performed through a second shear arm pivotally connected to the frame and actuated by the piston device.

Abstract: A simple direct acting mechanism moves a circular rotatable disc cutter or two such cutters first to rollably engage a hard surface and then to traverse the surface to part the stock between a side-by-side pair of cords or wires. The cutter or cutters are blunt edged, as well as unheated and so avoid baring the cords or wires while parting the stock without the undesired effect of sharp or hot knives. The cutter or cutters are shiftable along the axis or axes to accommodate deviation of the cords with respect to the travel of the cutter. The foregoing abstract is not to be taken as limiting the invention of this application, and in order to understand the full nature and extent of the technical disclosure of this application, reference must be made to the accompanying drawing and the following detailed description.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fish processing system having endless conveying means, a plurality of chuck units provided on the conveying means and adapted to cramp fish bodies, head separating means provided at a point on the path of travel of the fish bodies and adapted to separate head portion from the fish and guts removing means adapted to remove guts from the fish bodies.

Abstract: A conveyor for separating and aligning glass sheets moving along a sheet movement path includes a plurality of cylindrical rolls skewed relative to the movement path to displace the advancing sheets toward a side of the conveyor. At the side of the conveyor the sheets are aligned by an endless belt rotating through a path parallel to the sheet movement path. Each successive roll in the direction of sheet advancement has increasing peripheral surface rotational speed to separate the advancing sheets.

Abstract: A cutting mechanism includes a removably mounted backing roller having a longitudinal axis of rotation and a rotatably mounted cutting member having a cutting edge and a longitudinal axis of rotation disposed parallel to the axis of rotation for the roller member. The roller member rotates in a fixed relationship with respect to the cutting member so that the cutting edge operates at substantially the same surface location of the circumferential surface of the backing roller to cut film thereagainst upon each revolution of the cutting member. The roller member is mounted to resiliently float in a direction transverse to a plane extending through the axis of rotation for the cutting member. The drive of the rotating elements is effected through the use of a timing belt operating from the main drive of the machine on which the cutting mechanism is mounted.

Abstract: In a cutting press of the type wherein an upper platen is forced toward a lower platen to press a die through a workpiece on the lower platen, a more easily operable stroke setting means is provided. In the course of low pressure actuation of the upper platen for this purpose, an operator need only deactivate a solenoid whereby a brake becomes effective to establish the cutting stroke as appropriate to the depth of a die, for subsequent high pressure cutting strokes of the press.

Abstract: An apparatus to simultaneously punch a series of louver holes in a tubular workpiece. The apparatus having a series of punches angularly spaced around the workpiece, which punches are caused to reciprocate by the engagement thereof by a series of inclined surfaces of a rotatable member located around the workpiece. The apparatus further includes gripping means to hold the workpiece during punching operations and to move the workpiece in between successive punching operations.

Abstract: Two webs of different widths of microfoam are fed from web rolls by a continuously driven roller and a pinch roller through a heated-wire cutting station. At the cutting station, a single cutting wire extends across the path of both webs; a single set of clamping plates is also provided. The feed of the webs may be alternately interrupted by a clamping device which includes a pivotal clamp support that can be swung in a rocking motion back and forth about its pivot axis. A pair of U-shaped channels located on either side of the support pivot axis extend across the width of both webs and can be swung respectively toward and away from the webs. Removable clamping segments are fitted into a portion of each U-shaped channel to define adjustable length clamping elements which extend across the widths of respective webs for accommodating various sizes of webs. By swinging the clamp support between two positions, the clamping device alternately clamps one or the other web against a fixed clamp bar.

Abstract: An apparatus for selective attachment to a rotary microtome in order to permit separation of the specimen from a cutting knife during the return stroke of the specimen. A small frame is adapted to fit within the conventional specimen holder or chuck of the microtome; and the frame carries a solenoid with a movable core. Attached to the forward end of the movable core is an auxiliary specimen holder; attached to the other end of the core is a plate against which a compression spring constantly presses. The preferred power supply for the solenoid is a filtered 30 volt DC power supply. The solenoid is energized only during the downward, cutting stroke of the microtome, and it is de-energized before the arm starts its return stroke. The spring urges the specimen holder away from the knife when the solenoid is de-energized. The apparatus may be readily installed on any conventional rotary microtome with minimal skilled labor; and it may be removed at will to restore the microtome to its original condition.

Abstract: A saw arrangement in which a panel to be cut is backed in an upright position by a frame and is supported by a lower edge rest includes a vertically extending carrier bar horizontally sweeping the working area defined by the backing frame and the edge rest, a carriage vertically movable on the carrier bar, and a sawing device movable on the carriage transversely to the working plane. Operating elements for so moving the carrier bar, the carriage, and the sawing device may be connected individually to a central drive unit by means of a single motion transmitting element and individual controls for drivingly connecting the motion transmitting element to the carrier, the carriage, and the sawing device.

Abstract: A cutting apparatus for severing portions of identical length from a strip. This cutting apparatus comprises a feed means which is coupled to a drive means and which is adapted to feed the strip to a pair of advancing rolls located between the feed means and a cutting element. One of these advancing rolls is coupled to the drive means and is provided with a cam surface having a larger radius than the remaining roll surface. This cam surface, together with the other advancing roll, is adapted to engage the strip to move the strip forward towards a pair of receiving rolls through a distance determined by said cam surface. The central axes of the receiving rolls lie in a plane that is parallel to the plane through the central axes of the advancing rolls.

Abstract: In a wrapper rolling machine for the manufacture of cigars etc. and comprising a wrapper cutting out unit, means are provided to hold one half of a tobacco leaf while cutting is performed in its other half, and to deliver the first half, together with any scraps appending thereto, in a plane condition and a desired orientation for the subsequent cutting out of one or more wrappers from said first half.

Abstract: Apparatus for die-cutting preprinted web has an adjustable web feed mechanism which is controlled by circuitry for detecting mis-registration between die-cutting and the preprinted portions of the web, of which the following is a specification.

Abstract: First feeding means serve to deliver a first strip at a controlled velocity. Second feeding means serve to receive said first strip from said feeding means and to intermittently pull said first and second strips in contact with each other. Looping means serve to engage said first strip between said first and second feeding means and to urge said strip to form a loop. Sensing means serve to indicate the length of said loop. Control means serve to control the velocity at which said first strip is delivered by said first feeding means in response to said sensing means in inverse relation to the length of said loop.

Abstract: A continuous flexible hinge for paperboard and the like, suitable for use in making book cover blanks, is skived in the region beneath the hinge tape to a depth equal to the thickness of the tape. The hinge tape and paperboard are assembled with the hinge tape adhered in the groove in the skived region, leaving the tape flush with the surface of the paperboard.