Abstract: A continuous cutter for severing pieces of equal length from a coiled elongate article "T" includes a movable stand which carries a shiftable clamp. The cutter also includes a fixed clamp. The shiftable and fixed clamps are driven relatively to one another to clamp or unclamp the article "T" fed from an uncoiler and to advance it in an intermittent manner for the production of flat tubes used to construct a heat exchanger. For this purpose, a cutter blade on the movable stand severs the elongate article into lengths during the forward advance of the stand, in such a manner that the lengths are cut accurately, efficiently and at a reduced production cost. A stretcher may be added to the cutter in order to impart a the moving article "T".

Abstract: A device for preparing an optical fiber for interconnection includes means for grasping the optical fiber at a first location along the optical fiber, means for scribing and breaking the optical fiber a first select distance from the first location, the means for scribing and breaking including guides for supporting and sliding the means for grasping along the guides in fixed relationship to the means for scribing and breaking, and means for polishing the optical fiber as broken, the means for polishing being connected to the means for breaking. The device also includes a polishing surface fixedly connected to the means for grasping. The polishing surface supports the means for grasping at a second select distance from the first location, the second select distance being shorter than the first select distance. The optical fiber is linearly moveable with respect to the polishing surface.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for separating a bundle of blank pieces from a stack of sheets. The apparatus has a frame and a subframe which pivots with respect to the frame. The frame and subframe each have a clamp for clamping the stack of sheets along a stack plane and the bundle portion to be separated from the stack along a separation plane that intersects the stack plane. The subframe pivots with respect to the frame, bending the stack to cause the bundle portion to be separated from the remainder of the stack in such a way that separation is initiated at one point along the stack rather than across the whole stack or across an entire sheet of the stack. The subframe pivots about an axis that is skewed with respect to at least one of the planes to produce the described effect.

Abstract: A method of cutting a plate-like wafer, particularly a semiconductor wafer, while removing a deposited material from along a scribe line. The deposited material having a width generally greater than the width of the saw blade. The method includes making one scribing cut to one side of the scribe line, making a second scribing cut to the other side of the scribe line, and making a severing cut along the scribe line to dice the wafer.

Abstract: A glass breaking system is provided for breaking large sheets of glass into small sheets, in which a laser beam having an elongated beam spot shape, with a largest dimension which is at least 20 mm, more preferably at least 30 mm, and most preferably at least 40 mm, is moved across a glass sheet to produce a partial crack score line. The glass sheet is then separated along the score line by applying a bending moment in the area of the partial crack.

Abstract: The specification describes techniques for cleaving crystal bodies, e.g. semiconductor laser bars, using thermostatic cleaving tools. Use of such tools allows the cleaving process to occur in an ultra high vacuum chamber without the use of mechanical devices activated from the exterior of the chamber. Cleaving occurs automatically and controllably by locally heating the cleaving tools, thereby deflecting the thermostatic element against the laser bar and causing fracture.

Abstract: A scratch is made at least at one corner portion of the cathode ray tube and heat is applied so as to flank the scratch from the two sides. More specifically, electrical heating wires are disposed at the two sides of the scratch formed on the cathode ray tube and the electrical heating wires are used to apply the heat in a linear manner from the two sides of the scratch. Preferably, scratches are formed at the four corners positioned at the panel portion rather than the frit glass portion where the panel portion and the funnel portion of the cathode ray tube are joined, electrical heating wires to which tension is applied are disposed at the four corner positions of the panel portion so as to flank the scratches from the two sides, and heat is applied to the cathode ray tube by the electrical heating wires. Tension is applied to the electrical heating wires by springs.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are described for cleaving a relatively thin semiconductor wafer for inspecting a target feature on a workface thereof by: producing, on a first lateral face of the semiconductor wafer, laterally of the workface on one side of the target feature, an indentation in alignment with the target feature; and inducing by impact, in a second lateral face of the semiconductor wafer, laterally of the workface on the opposite side of the target feature, a shock wave substantially in alignment with the target feature and the indentation on the first lateral face, to split the semiconductor wafer along a cleavage plane essentially coinciding with the target feature and the indentation.

Abstract: A turnable lock operable with driver and tumbler pins when positioned by a key at a shear line in which shearable assembly pins are assembled in the lock and thereafter sheared to form such driver and tumbler pins for operation thereon. Each assembly pin is selectively weakened at a plurality of locations which correspond with notched depth heights of the family of keys capable of insertion in the keyhole. Such weakening is controlled so that pin shearing can be accomplished by application of rotational or linear forces applied to any part of the lock except the key. When linear forces are used the tumbler or plug may be indexed to employ a driver pin as a plug lock.

Abstract: A method of producing an intended breaking point at a predetermined location of a tension member for a soil anchor of a strain-hardened steel or a steel which is not which is not in a thermodynamic equilibrium, for example, a wire or a steel wire strand, to enable removal of the free steel length after use by applying a tensile force which exceeds the working load. The predetermined breaking point is obtained by heating the tension member at a predetermined location in a controlled manner to a temperature at which the state of strain-hardening or the state of being not in a thermodynamic equilibrium is at least partially cancelled, wherein the predetermined breaking point has a breaking load which is equal to or smaller than the breaking load of the untreated tension member, but greater than the yield point of the untreated tension member.

Abstract: A turnable lock operable with driver and tumbler pins when positioned by a key at a shear line in which shearable assembly pins are assembled in the lock and thereafter sheared to form such driver and tumbler pins for operation thereon. Each assembly pin is selectively weakened at a plurality of locations which correspond with notched depth heights of the family of keys capable of insertion in the keyhole. Such weakening is controlled so that pin shearing can be accomplished by application of rotational or linear forces applied to any part of the lock except the key. When linear forces are used the tumbler or plug may be indexed to employ a driver pin as a plug lock.

Abstract: In a method of separating a product G connected to a skeleton portion S of work W via a micro joint M, from the skeleton portion, the product is separated from the skeleton portion by striking the skeleton portion in the vicinity of the micro joint to cut off the micro joint from the skeleton. Further, the die pair used for the above-mentioned method comprises a punch 17A provided with a projecting portion 17T at an end thereof and movable up and down; and a die 19A arranged under the punch and formed of an elastic substance. In this method, it is possible to separate products from the skeleton portion of the work efficiently by breaking the micro joints without scratching the products and without generating noise. Further, the separating work of the products from the skeleton portion can be easily automated.

Abstract: A method for breaking a hard to cut wafer, such as a SrTiO.sub.3 single-crystal wafer or amorphous wafer, into sections comprises the steps of scribing the wafer to form a groove along a breaking line, heating the groove for a period of about between 30 seconds to 5 minutes, cooling the wafer to a room temperature, and then breaking the wafer along the breaking line by applying a bending moment about the breaking line. The wafer can have an oxide superconductor film, such as Y.sub.1 Ba.sub.2 Cu.sub.3 O.sub.7.delta., deposited on its surface before the wafer is cut.

Abstract: A method for producing a roll forming allows the hemming step and the roll-forming step to be contiguously performed in a single production line. The first ripping step (E) tears off a side edge strip along the first groove formed by the first grooving step (B) to form a first edge portion having a gradually changed sectional shape. At least the first grooving step (B) and the first ripping step (E) are performed contiguously with the roll-forming step (A) by utilizing the sheet or product conveyance force provided in the roll-forming step (A).

Abstract: A process for producing a plate from a brittle material Which can be individually separated by breaking to form one or more smaller platelets. In this process, laser scoring is used to produce in a single plate of large dimensionsa parallel first predetermined breaking points respectively at the distance d.sub.a andb parallel second predetermined breaking points respectively at the distance d.sub.b,which intersect the first predetermined breaking points, a and b being integers over 1. The edge zone is removed in the outer region at the distance d.sub.a from the two outer first predetermined breaking points and at the distance d.sub.b from the two outer second predetermined breaking points, so that the remaining plate, without border pieces, contains (a-1).times.(b-1) platelet sections of the same size, which are bounded by in each case four predetermined breaking points.

Abstract: A plate-like glass material working device 1 provided with a breaking-off unit 2, an input unit 3 for inputting various breaking-off data items and commands to the device; a storage unit 5 from which data on the shape of a target plate of glass 300 stored beforehand therein is read out in accordance with a command from the input unit 3; a display unit 7 for displaying thereon the shape of the Target plate of glass 300 on the basis of the shape data read out from the storage unit 5 and displaying the shape of a plate-like glass material 6 to be worked, an end cutting line forming position and a pressing position on the plate-like glass material in accordance with breaking-off data and a command from the input unit 3; and a control unit 8 for controlling the operation of the breaking-off unit 2 in correspondence to the shape of the target plate of glass 300, the shape of the plate-like glass material 6, end cutting line forming position and pressing position displayed on the glass material on the display unit 7

Abstract: A method of cutting non-metallic materials, specifically glass, resides in the heating of the material by an incident beam of radiation being effected to a temperature short of its softening point, with the rate of relative displacement of the beam and of the material, and the region of the heated zone which is locally cooled being selected to form a blind crack in the material. The method provides for increasing substantially the cutting speed and accuracy, and also for controlling the depth, shape and angle of the cut face formed by the crack.

Abstract: A scratch is made at least at one corner portion of the cathode ray tube and heat is applied so as to flank the scratch from the two sides. More specifically, electrical heating wires are disposed at the two sides of the scratch formed on the cathode ray tube and the electrical heating wires are used to apply the heat in a linear manner from the two sides of the scratch. Preferably, scratches are formed at the four corners positioned at the panel portion rather than the frit glass portion where the panel portion and the funnel portion of the cathode ray tube are joined, electrical heating wires to which tension is applied are disposed at the four corner positions of the panel portion so as to flank the scratches from the two sides, and heat is applied to the cathode ray tube by the electrical heating wires. Tension is applied to the electrical heating wires by springs.

Abstract: The present invention provides metal/polymer composites including a plastic substrate having longitudinally extending conductive members, adapted to make bonded electrical connections to an array of closely spaced conductive terminal pads. In general terms, the metal/polymer composites include a thin, flexible sheet-like plastic substrate having a plurality of longitudinally extending, regularly spaced, metal pathways or members on one major surface thereof.

Abstract: A forged-steel connecting rod blank is formed with intentional-break zones extending over one or both of the broad crankshaft-eye surfaces of the connecting rod or as crevices formed radially in the inner surface of the large-diameter bore of the eye and running from an upper edge to a web of the material which is ultimately punched out.

Abstract: A method of cutting a flat tube (6) into unit pieces, which includes moving in a transverse direction rotatable disc cutters (12) with knife edges so as to cut the upper and lower walls of a flat tube to form a pair of cutting grooves (15) and fixing the flat tube at a point upstream of the cutting groove while flexing in the vertical direction a length of the flat tube downstream of the cutting grooves to break it off at the cutting grooves, thereby providing a unit piece of a predetermined length.

Abstract: A stripping apparatus includes a pair of first and second base plates which are disposed in facing relationship to each other in a vertical direction and movable toward and away from each other. The first and second base plates include first support holes and second support holes, respectively, disposed in alignment with each other in the vertical direction. A plurality of pressing pins are insertable into the first and second support holes. A fixing device is provided on each of the first and second base plates for releasably fixing the pressing pins inserted into the first and second support holes.

Abstract: Method and apparatus is disclosed for severing flat tubing. A length of tubing is gripped at longitudinally spaced apart locations and the tubing is deeply scored by rapidly rotating circular cutters which are moved across the faces of the tubing at a predetermined linear velocity. The angular velocity of the circular cutters greatly exceeds the linear velocity of traversal. An axial force is applied to separate the tubing.

Abstract: To assure that a plate-shaped brittle material is exactly cut into two plate pieces, a jig having a thread-shaped projection secured thereto in conformity with a predetermined pattern positionally coincident with a cut groove formed in the plate-shaped brittle material, an elastic member located on the cut groove side of the plate-shaped brittle material, and a plate-shaped brittle material to be cut into two plate pieces are placed on a table of a press machine one above another, and subsequently, a predetermined intensity of pressing power is applied to the jig from above by operating a pressing machine. Alternatively, a jig having a thread-shaped projection secured thereto, an elastic member located on the opposite side relative to the cut groove side of the plate-shaped brittle material, and a plate-shaped brittle material to be cut into two plate pieces may be placed on the press table one above another.

Abstract: A method for applying a controlled, adjustable strain and strain rate by use of a break wheel to break a frangible semiconductor wafer around previously placed scribe lines formed along a surface of the wafer. Several embodiments of a break wheel are disclosed. One embodiment uses a pair of spaced profiles engageable on opposite sides of a scribe line on the wafer. Another embodiment uses three laterally spaced contact profiles, the center profile having a smaller radius than that of the two flanking contact profiles. Another embodiment uses a complaint break wheel for applying a resilient breaking force to the wafer in a region straddling the scribe line. All embodiments are used with a tilted surface having a break edge with which the scribe line is aligned prior to the application of the breaking force. The tilted surface is adjustable to provide a variable maximum strain limit.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for separating thin-walled flat metal tubing are disclosed. The tubing has flat upper and lower walls joined by end walls. The tubing is partially severed by providing relative movement between the tubing and opposed cutting blades having straight or slightly curved cutting edges. The relative movement is transverse to the longitudinal axis of the tubing, and the straight slicing edges, or the chords of curved slicing blades, form a small acute angle with respect to the flat faces of the tubing. The tubing is completely severed by applying an axial force to the tubing. Pressing heads follow the slicing blades to press any burrs back into the tubing.

Abstract: In case a long size sheet which is sandwiched by a drive roller and a pressure roller and its tip portion is suspended downwardly with its dead weight from the sheet support surface is cut off in a straight line in a crossing direction with a cutter pen of a plotter capable of shifting the sheet in a crossing direction, firstly, the sheet is cut off in a crossing direction with the cutter pen leaving a predetermined region at the center portion of the sheet. Next, a half-cut or perforation work is applied to the predetermined region at the center portion, and then, the drive roller is rotated in the positive or reverse direction, and the sheet transfers back and forth along its longitudinal direction, and the region of the sheet where the drawing has been performed is shaken off from the other portion of the sheet by the transfer, and thus, the cutting operation of the sheet is completed.

Abstract: A dispenser for cutting and feeding a web of flexible sheet material is described in which a feed roller carries a web cutting blade and a spring connected to an eccentric crank affixed to the feed roll. While initial movement of the web through the mechanism and actuation of the cutter to effect partial separation of the web material is produced by the user's pull on the web, such pull also loads the spring which, upon unloading, delivers the cut web material from the dispenser. The spring is designed to gradually arrest rotation of the feed roll and to be exhausted of stored energy at a predetermined position of the feed roll whereupon the uncut segments of web material are efficaciously severed and the leading end of the succeeding web material is automatically positioned where it can be readily grasped by a subsequent user.

Abstract: A method of cutting a flat tube (6) into unit pieces, which includes moving in a transverse direction rotatable disc cutters (12) with knife edges so as to cut the upper and lower walls of a flat tube to form a pair of cutting grooves (15) and fixing the flat tube at a point upstream of the cutting groove while flexing in the vertical direction a length of the flat tube downstream of the cutting grooves to break it off at the cutting grooves, thereby providing a unit piece of a predetermined length.

Abstract: To assure that a plate-shaped brittle material is exactly cut into two plate pieces, a jig having a thread-shaped projection secured thereto in conformity with a predetermined pattern positionally coincident with a cut groove formed in the plate-shaped brittle material, an elastic member located on the cut groove side of the plate-shaped brittle material, and a plate-shaped brittle material to be cut into two plate pieces are placed on a table of a press machine one above another, and subsequently, a predetermined intensity of pressing power is applied to the jig from above by operating a pressing machine. Alternatively, a jig having a thread-shaped projection secured thereto, an elastic member located on the opposite side relative to the cut groove side of the plate-shaped brittle material, and a plate-shaped brittle material to be cut into two plate pieces may be placed on the press table one above another.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for imparting an angle cleave to a plurality of optical fibers. The cleaving device comprises a base having a support surface, the support surface having two lower pads which are aligned with two upper pads on a hinged cover, so that the fibers may be clamped between the respective pairs of lower and upper pads. One of the upper pads is designed to shift with respect to its corresponding lower pad; when a fiber is clamped between these pads and the upper pad moves, the fibers twist as a result of the induced torsional load. When the fibers are scored and cleaved while in the twisted state, the resulting end faces are at an oblique angle with respect to the fiber axes, which is beneficial since this reduces signal reflections at the fiber-to-fiber interfaces.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for separating thin-walled flat metal tubing are disclosed. The tubing has flat upper and lower walls joined by end walls. The tubing is partially severed by providing relative movement between the tubing and opposed cutting blades having straight cutting edges. The relative movement is transverse to the longitudinal axis of the tubing, and the straight cutting edges of the blades form a small acute angle with respect to the flat faces of the tubing. The tubing is completely severed by applying an axial force to the tubing.

Abstract: Linerless labels are manually dispensed by mounting a roll of the labels for take-off from a stationary shaft. A polygon-cross-section foam core is provided between the shaft and the label roll to provide a brake drag effect to prevent excess label unwind. The non-adhesive face of the labels passes from the roll around a freely rotating guide roller with a non-stick surface which ensures consistent wrap of the labels and no scuffing of the non-adhesive face as the labels are dispensed. The labels pass from the guide roller to a tear surface having a first smooth, coarse, ribbed or grooved pattern metal portion which has low adhesion to the adhesive of the labels, but will stick to the labels sufficiently to provide an anchoring force to a label greater than the force necessary to tear along a perforation of the label, and a second non-stick surface portion.

Abstract: A workpiece severing apparatus includes rotatable cutting and breaking assemblies that move about a fixedly held workpiece. At the same time a cutting edge of the cutting assembly is moving through the workpiece by cutting the workpiece along its entire periphery, rollers of the breaking assembly are applying a desired force to workpiece portions. Movement of the rollers relative to the workpiece is controlled so that tension is always applied to the workpiece in a way that facilitates cutting. The cutting assembly stops its cutting operation when a predetermined thickness of the workpiece remains. After this occurs, the two assemblies continue to rotate and the breaking assembly eventually causes a severed workpiece portion to be separated from a held workpiece portion.

Abstract: A device for partially shearing single or multiple sheets of material comprising a base having a recess and a lower blade fixed in the recess. A pair of movable blades having opposed ends are pivotally attached to the base at one end. A lost-motion connecting link connects the free ends of the pair of movable blades together and is connected to a hydraulic piston which moves the link a limited distance towards the base, thereby to rotate both movable blades relative to the fixed blade with a scissors-like action. When the pair of blades is moved towards the lower blade, the material is cut inward from both sides or edges of the material, leaving an inner uncut portion of material having a width which corresponds to the stroke of the movable blades.

Abstract: A heavy duty bead remover for vehicle passenger and heavy duty tires wherein the bead is hooked at a circumferential point and drawn through a narrow transversely slotted aperture, thereby to tear the bead from the tire and pull it through the aperture. Adjustable pressure jaws are provided to clamp the bead to the hook, and further a curved guide adjacent the slotted aperture is provided to reduce draw and tear forces. The tire is preferably specially cut prior to tear removal of the bead.

Abstract: An outline is cut in a glass sheet to form an inner zone and an outer marginal zone. The glass sheet is positioned on a support which supports the inner zone and marginal zone from below. A carrier is arranged such that suction pads thereof adhere to the inner zone, and such that a beveled bottom surface of a mechanical removing device carried by the carriage contacts an outer edge of the marginal zone. When the carriage is raised, the suction pads move up relative to the mechanical removing device. The inner zone is raised, but the outer edge of the marginal zone is restrained against upward movement by the mechanical removing device so that the marginal zone breaks along the outline.

Abstract: The invention discloses a novel method and apparatus for cleaving semiconductor wafers into individual die which comprises mounting the wafer upon an adherent resilient air impermeable membrane while the latter is flat. Cleaving is achieved by using air pressure to inflate the membrane to cause bending and tensile stresses on the wafer brought about by its adhesion to the inflating membrane. These stresses cleave the wafer along the scribe marks to form individual die. The die may be easily removed by the application of a vacuum to the underside of the membrane which draws it against a perforated undulatory grid dimensioned according to the die dimensions to reduce the surface contact. This reduces adhesion of the die to the membrane to facilitate a low stress pick-off of the die.

Abstract: A method of, and apparatus for, separating a sheet of glass along a score line on the sheet. The method comprises flexing the glass at the score line along an axis of flexure on the support to pre-stress the glass to a level below the critical stress level, and initiating a break at one end of the score line. The apparatus comprises a support for the sheet, the support defining an axis of flexure for alignment with the score line, at least one movable pressure member spaced above and on one side of the score line, a press head to move the pressure member into contact with the sheet of glass to pre-stress the sheet at the score line, and a break initiator at one end of the score line.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for dividing a flat glass panel (14) are described. The panel (14) which is to be divided and which is raised away from its substrate is securely held in its part regions by two clamping devices (10, 12) which are pivoted in opposite directions about a common pivot axle (4) and thus exert on the panel (14) a bending resulting in breakage along the score line (30). Simultaneously exerted on the clamping devices (10) which are, moreover, arranged to be displaceable in the direction of their connection line is a force which presses the clamping devices apart and which at the moment of breakage of the glass panel results in the two part panels moving apart, so that the broken edges cannot strike against one another. The part panels can be deposited again on a substrate after breaking. The invention further provides for marginal strips to be broken off the panel (14) to be divided, in the raised state thereof directly before dividing.

Abstract: A method for cutting and separating from a piece of sheet metal a product, comprising a first step for contouring the product while leaving a small joint such as a connecting web or micro-joint which connects the product to the sheet metal, a second step for forming a protrusion on or adjacent to the small joint by lancing, embossing, or semi-shearing, and a third step for pressing the protrusion in order to shear the small joint.

Abstract: A method of severing an elongated flat metal tube of the type including upper and lower flat horizontal walls, vertical edge walls and vertical partition walls spaced between the edge walls and interconnecting the upper and lower walls to divide the tube into a series of parallel, generally rectangular, longitudinally extending passages. The tube is cut by forming transverse kerfs in the upper and lower walls of the tube and thereafter exerting a relative pulling force on the tube sections on opposite sides of the plane in which the kerfs have been formed to tear apart the remaining tube material at the severing plane and sever the tube. The kerfs are formed in a two-step broaching operation comprising a first cut in which a narrow generally V-shaped narrow angle kerf is formed and a second cut in which the kerf is widened to provide a wide, generally V-shaped, wide angle kerf.

Abstract: Disclosed is a flexible hinge pin, and a method and apparatus for forming the hinge pin, wherein a cable is twisted and heated with sufficient torque and heat to sever the cable into shorter hinge pins. The heating and twisting causes the portions of the cable in proximity with the severed ends to have a tight spiral and to be reduced in diameter, and the strands which comprise the cable to be bonded to one another both internally and at external portions of the cable. The reduced diameters of the formed ends facilitates easier threading of the hinge pins through belt fastener hoops. The bonding of the cable strands in the region of the ends serves to both maintain the tight spiral and the reduced diameter, and to prevent the ends of the hinge pin from separating.

Abstract: A hand-held breaker tool for adjusting the length of the side rails of frames that support hanging file folders in a drawer. The tool is used to break off an unwanted excess length portion of the side rails A method of adjusting and assembling a frame for holding and supporting hanging file folders and inserting the frame into a drawer of a desk or file cabinet.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for severing a workpiece wherein the workpiece is clamped at two axially spaced apart locations, and heated to reduce the tensile strength of the material, after which the axial spacing between the clamps is increased to pull the workpiece apart in the heated area. This apparatus and method may also be used in a flying environment; i.e., the severing apparatus travels with the workpiece to sever sections of a workpiece continuously emanating from a fabrication mill.

Abstract: A method for producing a glass knife, in which a flat glass plate (511) is divided by breaking along a divising line (23) scratched on said plate. The plate is placed on two lower supporting pins (9, 10), positioned by the use of means (7, 8) cooperating with the side edge surfaces of the glass plate, and is fixed by means of two upper supporting pins (17, 18) which are made to engage the upper face of said plate. Each pair of supporting pins has a line of symmetry perpendicular to the line of symmetry of the other pair, one line of symmetry coinciding with the dividing plane. Before the glass plate is broken by moving the supporting pins towards one another, the positioning means (7,8) are, at least partially, disengaged from the glass plate, such that essentially only the forces deriving from the supporting pins act upon the glass plate during the breaking thereof.

Abstract: A smooth, oblique-angled endface fracture of an optical fiber 39 useful in low reflectance, low insertion loss mechanical splices is achieved by creating tensile stress in the fiber and scoring the fiber at an angle to its longitudinal axis. Tension may be applied by bending the fiber with a flexible platen 16 to which it is affixed, and the scoring may be accomplished by scribing the fiber surface with a sharp point or impressing a notch into the fiber with a blade 28.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a multiple part component such as a connecting rod by integrally forming the connecting rod in one piece, laser cutting a stress riser along a surface of the connecting rod characterized by a deep and narrow groove and applying a tension force to separate the connecting rod into two parts, a main body and a bearing cap.

Abstract: The method relates to breaking glass sheets (5) with a line scored on one side, the glass sheet (5) being first raised at one end of the scored line and thereupon, in the remaining areas, it is progressively raised beginning with the initially lifted end. To carry out this breaking method, a breaking table (1) is provided of which the lifting strip (7) or roller can be raised on one side (I) first and then gradually lifted into the position II parallel to the table support surface (4). The glass sheet (5) is depressed on both sides of the lifting strip (7) or roller by suction heads (20) under partial vacuum or by boreholes (13) communicating with a source of partial vacuum.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of asymmetrically cleaving a plate (1) of brittle material, in which a thermal load and a mechanical load are provided on the plate (1) and the plate (1) is cleft along a desired cutting line (7).