Abstract: A cutting equipment (34) for continuous forms (37) comprising an input moving device (53) for a continuous form, a loop forming device (54), a cutting feeding device (56) and a transversal cutting mechanism (58) for the form. The form (37) has side sprocket holes (41) and the cutting feeding device (56) includes intermediate pin feed tractors (91, 92) interposed between the loop forming device (54) and the transversal cutting mechanism (58) and provided for cooperating with the sprocket holes of the section of form (37) to be cut. The loop forming device includes a loop sensor (78) and the input moving device (53) causes the form to be entered at a mean velocity depending on the velocity of the intermediate pin feed tractors (91, 92) and on the state of the loop sensor.

Abstract: An improved spoon apparatus and method includes a handle portion carrying a spoon bowl portion. The spoon bowl is clutched non-rotationally to the handle portion during a scooping motion to load the spoon bowl with food. At the initiation of the food scooping motion, essentially immediate clutching of the spoon bowl to the handle portion is effected by a fine-dimension ratchet structure of the inventive spoon. However, as soon as the scooping motion is completed by clearing of the spoon bowl from the food, the bowl portion is unclutched from the handle portion and becomes freely pivotal like a pendulum so as to remain level from side to side irrespective of rotation of the handle portion as a user moves the loaded spoon to the user's mouth. A unique combination of gravitationally induced torque as well as a gravitational force vector are utilized to effect unclutching of the spoon bowl from the handle portion.

Abstract: A paper cutter utilizing a lamp to illuminate a cutline scored into a transparent plastic surface located below directly below the paper to be cut. The silhouette of the cutline acts as the guideline for placement of the cutting blade of the paper cutter to thereby create the exact line of cut. A dual blade rotary cutter is also provided in a paper cutter with a toggle arrangement located on the carriage assembly which allows the user of the cutter to selectively engage one or the other of the blades to engage the cutter.

Abstract: A system and method for cutting continuous web that provides a simplified and direct feed path during loading, and thereafter a more-complex serpentine feed path at an infeed unit for reliable infeed of the web, arranged as either a free loop or a moderately tensioned configuration. Downstream, an indexing drive intermittently pauses the web for the cutter knife to operate. The indexing drive and infeed unit's drive are synchronized by a controller to produce a small horizontally disposed buffer loop therebetween. The buffer loop is maintained within a predetermined range using a sensor, operatively with the controller, that measures the location of the end of the loop, modulating the drives to maintain the buffer loop's (returning) end within a predetermined location about the sensor's sensing field. The system includes an adjustment drive motor for moving a plurality of edge guide sets toward and away from each other in synchronization.

Abstract: In a method of jointing a cutting edge of at least one cutting blade of a rotating tool, wherein between the tool and at least one straight jointing stone a radial advancing movement is carried out and wherein the jointing stone has an active jointing area that is longer than a length of the cutting edge, at least one relative stroke between the jointing stone and the cutting edge is performing during jointing in a longitudinal direction of the cutting edge. The relative stroke has a stroke length that is shorter than the length of the cutting edge.

Abstract: A folding tool with inlay release preferably includes a blade, a lock side plate, a release side plate, a cantilever spring and a release inlay. One end of the blade is pivotally retained between the lock side plate and the release side plate. One end of the cantilever spring is attached to the lock side plate and the other end is biased to contact the one end of the blade. A rocker bar is pivotally retained in the release side plate. One end of the rocker bar captures a biased end of the cantilever spring. The release inlay is used to pivot the other end of the rocker bar to release the one end of the rocker bar to allow the blade to be released from a closed position. A slide lock prevents the rocker bar from being released by the release inlay.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for continuously producing pasted positive and negative electrode plates from pasted lead or lead alloy expanded, punched or cast metal mesh strip for use in lead-acid batteries without the use of paper barriers. The heating of cutting devices such as roll-mounted die-cutters to a predetermined temperature range of at least about 150° C., preferably about 160 to 300° C., and more preferably about 180 to 210° C., eliminates sticking of the paste on the pasted metal mesh strip to the cutting devices and obviates the need for the paper barriers.

Abstract: A circle cutting machine includes a template that is removeably installed in the bottom of a base. On the base bottom surface are a number of segments that define respective grooves for receiving the template. The base has a cross-beam that defines an axis of rotation and that receives a handle. On one end of the handle is a crank. The handle second end holds a cutting arm. A handle spring biases the cutting arm to contact the cross-beam. The handle is slideable in the cross-beam to locate the cutting arm below the plane of the base bottom surface for easy removing of the cutting arm from the handle. An adjuster rigidly locks and resiliently unlocks the cutting arm to the handle. The template has a circular periphery that enters the base grooves, and a tab that is between two segments, when the template is installed.

Abstract: A V-cutter for use in manufacturing a light guide panel of the backlight unit in liquid crystal display (LCD), and more specifically, a kit with a plurality of pins for the V-cutter is disclosed. The pin kit may be used to form a plurality of V-shaped grooves spaced apart by a desired, varying interval on the light guide panel. The pin kit may include a buffer plate (10) fixed to a lift piece (7), an elastic member (11) fixed in the longitudinal direction at bottom thereof, a guide plate (14) in which insertion holes (15) for a plurality of pins (12) are formed to permit contact between the pins and the elastic member, and a plurality of pins (12) to be inserted into the insertion holes of the guide plate for forming V-shaped grooves (3) on the light guide panel (1).

Abstract: A microtome for cutting thin sample sections utilizes an electrical contact or sole plate for guiding the section cutting knife during sectioning. The sole plate floats across the surface of the sample thereby ensuring that uniformly thin sections are cut regardless of movement of the sample or expansion or contraction thereof. An electrical contact may be used to detect and reference contact between the sample surface and the section cutting knife. After contact between the sample surface and section cutting knife is referenced, the relative position between the sample surface and section cutting knife may be adjusted to achieve a desired section thinness.

Abstract: A radially adjustable anvil roll assembly for use in a die cutting cylinder of a rotary die cutting press is comprised of a cylindrical sleeve having an internal bore, a shaft extending longitudinally through the internal bore of the sleeve and supporting the sleeve for rotation thereon, and an adjustable bearing assembly having pluralities of bearer rolls that engage in rolling engagement with an exterior surface of the anvil sleeve and adjustably position the anvil sleeve radially on the shaft, thereby adjusting the radial spacing between the cutting edges of the die cutting cylinder and the anvil surface of the sleeve.

Abstract: A sawing apparatus has a frame, a saw blade rotatable on the frame about a horizontal axis and displaceable transversely of the axis, and a conveyor for displacing an elongated workpiece longitudinally in a transport direction generally parallel to the saw-blade axis past the saw blade. The conveyor has upstream and downstream drive rollers flanking the blade mounted on the frame on one side of the workpiece and respective upstream and downstream holding rollers mounted on the frame transversely juxtaposed with the drive rollers and engaging the opposite longitudinal side of the workpiece. Upstream and downstream abutment blocks on the frame engageable with the one side of the workpiece immediately flank the blade and upstream and downstream pusher blocks on the frame engage the opposite longitudinal side of the workpiece transversely opposite the respective abutment blocks.

Abstract: Metal billets are cut from heated logs emerging from a furnace by a shearing system controlled by information detected as the logs emerge from the furnace. Detection in this position eliminates the variations inherently present in the length of the logs resulting from temperature gradients within the furnace, and from a length of time the logs are subject to these gradients. The advancing end of an isolated log is sensed by an electric eye, and the interface between one log and the following log is detected by an eddy current device. The data from these sensing devices is supplied to a computer, which controls the shearing operation so that billets can be cut with a minimum of waste. The billets can be of two segments, and the equipment establishes cutting operations that produce the combined billet length, regardless of the position of the interface between the logs.

Abstract: A food-slicing guide device for guiding a knife in slicing portions of food comprises a platform and a bail. A pair of opposing slots spaced along the lateral edges of the platform are adapted to align the bail either perpendicularly to the platform while using the device as a food-slicing guide, or longitudinally with the platform when storing or transporting the device. The slots are adapted to permit either side or either end of the platform to be used for slicing purposes, thereby permitting the abrasion caused by contact between a slicing utensil and the platform to be distributed at various times at different areas, thus reducing the abrasion effects and extending the useful life of the device. The bail is constructed of resilient material and the interacting corners of the slots are eased whereby the bail readily snaps into slicing position. For storage, the bail pivotally rotates to a resting position in a pair of V-shaped grooves along the edges of the platform.

Abstract: An apparatus for the program controlled longitudinal and transverse cutting of workpiece plates. A longitudinal cutting saw and a transverse cutting saw are arranged with an intermediate workpiece transport table in-between. Arranged on the intermediate workpiece support table is a lifting device for collecting and lifting end strips cut from workpiece plates by the longitudinal saw above the plane of transport of the cut plate sections, as the cut plate sections are transported onto the transverse saw.

Abstract: A punch holder (10) including a punch holder member (20) with a stripper arrangement including a sleeve (36) axially movable with repsect to the holder member (20) each of the holder members (20) and sleeve (36) fit end to end within a bore (79) in an outer member (78), and stripper spring (38) interposed between the holder member (20) and sleeve (56) combined with a resilient cup piece (58) fit to the end of the sleeve (36) enclosing the lower end face (56) of the sleeve (36).

Abstract: This invention is a machine and method (10) for cutting large blocks (12) of material, such as cheese, in which a block (12) is pushed in the same direction through successive cutting stations (34,66), the block (12) being rotated between two successive cutting stations (34,66). The machine may have a number of piston and cylinder assemblies (24,32,48,54,68) arranged for pushing the block of cheese through the successive cutting stations, for rotating the block of cheese as described above and for raising and lowering the block of cheese relative to the cutting stations. The machine and method (10) speeds up the cutting process by allowing the simultaneous cutting of two blocks of material.

Abstract: A pair of guide bores in an electric punch support a pair of punching blocks aligned with, and movable into, respective punching holes in a main frame. Two operation arms are pivoted on respective holders and each is connected to one punching block to impart vertical motion thereto. Each operation arm includes a longitudinal guide groove therein. A pair of operation pins are driven in circular paths within the guide grooves to reciprocate the operation arms about their pivots. In the quiescent condition, the one of the guide pins lies at the end of its guide groove, whereas the other guide pin lies about in the middle of its guide groove. A guide concavity at the end of the guide grooves accepts its respective operation pin, whereby the associated operation arm rests at a different rotational position than it would if the guide concavity were omitted. A spring provides a restoring force on the punching block associated with the guide concavity.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for supplying precisely measured lengths of leader ribbon for use in the assembly of printer ribbon cartridges. The apparatus includes a supply of leader ribbon, an accumulator for retaining a length of the ribbon when it is drawn from the ribbon supply and a drive assembly for drawing a measured length into the accumulator. The drive assembly includes a fixed roller and a pivotable roller positioned on opposite sides of the ribbon path for engaging the ribbon therebetween. A stepping motor is provided for rotating the rollers a prescribed number of revolutions and thereby stuffing a measured length of the engaged ribbon into the accumulator. The apparatus also includes a cutter for severing the measured leader length from the supply ribbon.