Abstract: A drive roller assembly for cutting machinery is connected to a drive motor via a drive train to drive a drive belt within the machinery, and the drive roller assembly is configured such that, when the drive belt needs to be changed, the entire assembly can easily be removed and replaced without having to dismantle the assembly or disturb any other mechanisms in the vicinity of the drive roller assembly, as the drive roller assembly includes a drive shaft that has a first end and a second end, a split ring located on the first end of the shaft between a first bearing and the first end of the shaft, the split ring having a conical surface that fixes the first bearing relative to the first end of the shaft, on the second end of the shaft a second bearing is provided that is retained within a housing, and the housing is removably mounted on the machinery.

Abstract: Described herein is a drive roller assembly for cutting machinery (100) that is connected to a drive motor via a drive train to drive a drive belt within the machinery. When the drive belt needs to be changed, the drive roller assembly also needs to be removed from the machine. The drive roller assembly is configured such that the entire assembly can easily be removed and replaced without having to dismantle the assembly. The drive roller assembly includes a drive shaft that has a first end and a second end. A split ring (300) is located on the first end of the shaft between a first bearing and the first end of the shaft, the split ring having a conical surface that fixes the first bearing relative to the first end of the shaft. On the second end, a second bearing is provided that is retained within a housing.

Abstract: Described herein is a mounting arrangement (400) for a fixed cutting blade (100) of a cutting machine (450) that allows rapid replacement of the cutting blade (100) without having to remove a support member (200) for the cutting blade (100) from the cutting machine (450). At each mounting point of the cutting blade (100), a shaped nut (300) is located within the support member (200) prior to the support member (200) being mounted on the cutting machine (450). Each shaped nut (300) has an eccentric flange that engages within a complementary recess formed in the support member (200), the nut being retained within the complementary recess by means of a circlip (410). A screw or bolt (420) engages with the nut (300) to mount the cutting blade (100) on the support member (200), and, as the screw or bolt (420) is tightened, the cutting blade (100) is precisely aligned with respect to x- and y-axes within the support member (200).

Abstract: The invention relates to a device 1 for loading machines handling bulk materials, in particular materials that may be in baled or balled form, such as fibres, yarns, threads or debris from woven or non-woven or plastic textile products. Said device 1 comprises: a hopper 8; a conveying device placed on the base of said hopper 8, to convey a strip of material 3 in a backward conveying direction 4 through an opening 14 and into a machine to be loaded; a knife 15 having a blade 17 that can undergo a reciprocating movement approximately perpendicular to the conveying direction 4 so as to cut the material conveyed into the opening 14; and a device for balancing the reciprocating movement of said blade 17.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device 1 for loading machines handling bulk materials, in particular materials that may be in baled or balled form, such as fibres, yarns, threads or debris from woven or non-woven or plastic textile products. Said device 1 comprises: a hopper 8; a conveying device placed on the base of said hopper 8, to convey a strip of material 3 in a backward conveying direction 4 through an opening 14 and into a machine to be loaded; a knife 15 having a blade 17 that can undergo a reciprocating movement approximately perpendicular to the conveying direction 4 so as to cut the material conveyed into the opening 14; and a device for balancing the reciprocating movement of said blade 17.