Abstract: An apparatus for use in transporting peeled frankfurter casings or the like from a typical frankfurter peeling device or the like to a station such as a garbage dump or the like where the casings are to be finally deposited. A vacuum source creates a vacuum to pull the peeled casings through a conduit which extends from the peeling device, over the garbage dump or the like, and to the vacuum source. The apparatus is adapted to divert the peeled casings from moving through the conduit towards the vacuum source to falling from the conduit to the garbage dump or the like when the casings pass over the conduit.

Abstract: A dividing apparatus for dividing, cutting, or severing a continuously running strip material with the apparatus including an articulated drive for effecting a stroke movement of a cutting unit. The articulated drive is constructed as a quadrangular linkage including a driven crank and a rocker lever pivotally connected to the driven crank through a coupling member. The rocker lever includes an extension portion extending beyond a pivotal connection of the coupling member with the rocker lever. A secondary drive lever is provided with a first end of a link member being pivotally connected with the secondary drive lever and a second end of the link member being pivotally connected with a free end of the extension portion of the rocker lever. A transmission link element is provided for moving the cutting unit with the transmission link element being adjustably connected with the secondary drive lever.

Abstract: Cellular lightweight concrete slabs are manufactured by cutting horizontally through a block of still plastic cellular concrete mass resting on a support. At each cut a single slice is separated from the lowermost portion of the block or the remainder thereof. After each completed cut the upper remainder of the block is elevated by means of a suction head, in order to expose the recently cut surfaces for a treatment, and then again deposited on top of the slice or slices already resting on the support. Rotary roller means are provided for contributing in the surface treatment.

Abstract: An apparatus for the high-speed transverse severing of equi-sized sheets from a running web utilizing interacting blades carried by power-driven counter-rotating shafts, with vacuum retention of the web on one shaft of the apparatus as carrier over substantially from the point of web input to the apparatus to at least the point of web severance.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the production of a stack of etched, patterned metal foils for component elements, such as fluid plates and nozzle plates, is disclosed. Individual patterned foils are cut free from a mat having a group of patterned foils and also edge foils. The patterned foils are examined and unwanted foils together with the edge foils are discarded. The approved foils are individually stacked at stacking positions in a stacking station. A number of foil stacks corresponds to the number of individual patterned foils in the mat with the patterned foils being placed on the foil stacks in correspondence with their arrangement in the mat. Additional patterned foils from additional mats are stacked onto the individual foil stacks until a counter for each of the stacks determines that a predetermined number of stacked foils has occurred. The stack is removed and a new stack is begun until the counter again arrives at the predetermined number of foils for a given stack.

Abstract: An enclosure or housing for removal of sawdust generated by a saw blade rotating on a shaft located below a work table. A portion of the rotating saw blade projects above the top surface of the work table to engage and saw material being moved on the work table. The saw portion below the work table is located in the chamber formed by the enclosure and the chamber is connected with a source of suction. The enclosure straddles the saw rotor shaft, and its side walls have U-shaped upwardly opening slots through which the rotor shaft extends, located at each side of the saw blade. The slots and one side wall top edge have air seals between the saw blade and said slots and top edge. The saw blade is located parallel with and close to the unsealed enclosure side wall and is spaced a greater distance from the opposite sealed side wall. A top guard having a cover chamber may enclose the portion of the saw blade projecting above the work table. When used, the cover chamber also is connected with the source of suction.

Abstract: A process and a gel cutting device constructed and adapted to remove gel like material from a surface, the device having a hollow body with fluid communication therethrough, a pickup conduit attached to the inlet of the body, a cutter on the inlet end of the pickup conduit. The outlet of the body is connectable to a vacuum source. In operation the process and the gel cutter have the cutter of the pickup conduit passed into gel material, cutting same and passing the removed material through the pickup conduit into the hollow body.

Abstract: A machine for cutting cardboard and similar articles comprises a stationary platen mounted on the machine frame and an oscillating movable platen pivoted thereon to receive sheets one at a time from a magazine, means for delivering the sheets from the magazine to the moving platen, means for giving an oscillating movement to the moving platen and pivoting it, into contact with its stationary platen, blades for cutting the sheet on the moving platen and suction means on a pivoted chassis for removing the cut sheets and transferring them to a horizontal delivery conveyor and a rotary brush for wiping the surface of the moving platen.

Abstract: Control of the flow of fibrous material and selective shearing the material at predetermined lengths is provided by apparatus including a first shear element having an aperture in a plane face thereof and adapted with an input tube for feeding the fibrous material through the aperture in the shear element. A second shear element is rotatably attached to the first shear element and has an aperture in a plane face thereof alignable with the aperture of the first shear element. An egress tube is attached to the second shear element for receiving material from the aperture in the second shear element when aligned with that of the first shear element. The fibrous material is moved through the input tube and out of the egress tube by air pressure when the apertures in the shear elements are aligned. By rotating the first shear element relative to the second shear element, the fibrous material passing through the apertures therein is sheared and the flow of material therethrough stopped.

Abstract: An apparatus for the high-speed transverse severing of sheets from a running web utilizing interacting blades carried by counter-rotating shafts, with wrap around and retention of the web on one shaft. The blade on the other shaft has a shaped surface which defines an epitrochoid profile along its entire length. The blade on the one shaft has a straight cutting edge which accurately engages an opposed cutting edge defined by the intersection of said shaped surface and the outer peripheral surface of said blade.

Abstract: A simplified, relatively low cost web-cutting cylinder and assembly adapted to be mounted on a web collator and having a vacuum-type, through-the-cylinder slug removal feature is provided which permits easy, clean, high-speed removal of successively cut web slugs produced when standard English-sized equipment is used to produce metric-sized business forms or the like. The cutting cylinder is adapted to be mounted adjacent a conventional, unmodified anvil cylinder and preferably includes an inwardly and axially extending, tapered bottom, slug-receiving slot or groove and a pair of slug-cutting peripheral knives mounted on opposite sides of the slot; a vacuum slug-removal system is coupled in communication with the slot for removing cut slugs without the necessity of any moving parts which can limit collator output and substantially increase equipment costs.

Abstract: A stack of glass blanks is moved on a support into position beneath a head carrying a cutting tool. The uppermost blank is scored by the cutting tool under quidance of a templet and the tool withdrawn. Pick-up means, advantageously with suction cups, removes the scored blank laterally from the stack and the stack and cutting head are brought closer together by a distance equal to the thickness of a blank, preferably by raising the stack support. The next blank is then scored and the operation repeated until all the blanks in the stack have been scored and removed, whereupon a new stack is brought into position. Means are provided for centering the stack with respect to the cutting head, and centering means adjacent the top of the stack centers the uppermost blank with respect to the cutting head, advantageously by jack means positioned on the sides of the stack.

Abstract: Method of making at least two different electrical interconnections with at least two wires extending from windings supported on a dynamoelectric machine core. The method includes moving the core, windings, and at least two wires toward a wire connecting device; orienting and positioning a first one of the at least two wires relative to the device; and thereby conditioning the device to establish a first one of at least two different connection configurations. A first electrical interconnection involving a first wire and having a first connection configuration is formed. A second winding lead then is oriented and positioned relative to the device, thereby to condition the device to form an interconnection having a second connection configuration, and such interconnection is made.

Abstract: A food processing apparatus for removing leaf fat from the abdominal cavity of a hog carcass wherein a first plate and a second plate are positionable with respect to the hog carcass, the first and second plates being engageable with a portion of the exposed surface of the leaf fat in a removal position of the first and second plates with respect to the leaf fat to be removed. A handle assembly connected to the first and second plates is utilized to position the first and second plates into and from the removal position via maneuvering the handle assembly. A first hook is connected to the first plate and a second hook is connected to the second plate for severingly engaging a portion of the leaf fat when positioning the first and second plates in the removal position for severing a portion of the leaf fat from the hog carcass to facilitate the removal of the leaf fat.

Abstract: A sheet material is advanced to a first location where cutting tools cut into it but not through it along the outline of the desired blank. Thereupon the sheet material and the cutting tools are jointly advanced to a second location where the cutting tools cut completely through the sheet material along the outline, and subsequently the thus-severed blank and the surrounding sheet material scrap are removed separately from the second location.

Abstract: Method and apparatus are disclosed for cutting tow by supplying the two with a pair of rolls to form a package next to cutting edges inside a rotating ring of blades. A pressure roll forces the tow against the cutting edges which form a surface of rotation preferably at an angle of 5.degree. to 85.degree. to the axis of rotation of the circle of blades.

Abstract: An apparatus for making thin protective gloves from a double thermoplastic film web comprises a belt conveyor intermittently moving the film web over a flat bed. Two tool assemblies, each having four identical cutting and welding tools on an intermittently rotatable vertical shaft, are disposed at opposite sides of the conveyor. Each tool has a heated die formed to the shape of the gloves and a suction plate disposed within the die. The tools of the tool assemblies are successively pressed against the web portion on the flat bed during the rest periods of the conveyor. The suction plates lift the gloves parted from the web and transfer them to a delivery station on rotation of the shafts.

Abstract: An adjustable apparatus can cut V-shaped segments of different dimensions from continuous sheets so that the V-shaped segments of different dimensions are suitable for application as wrappers to double cigar bunches of different dimensions. The apparatus can also cut the two tails of each V-shaped segment into flag-shaped configurations which will permit the smooth application of the two tails to the opposite ends of double cigar bunches having rounded ends.

Abstract: Continuously cast plastic strip has interspaced marks or defects with lengths of unmarked usable strip therebetween. To obtain a maximum possible yield of sheets from such strip, the lengths of the portions between the marks or defects are measured and cut into sheets of two or more different lengths, the cutting being such as to produce the maximum yield of sheets of either or all lengths, singly or in combination, which can be obtained from the length cut. This procedure reduces the loss or waste due to the marks or defects, to a minimum. A special system is provided for this practice and for cutting out the marks or defects between the unmarked strip portions free from defects, with a minimum of loss or waste. Other features are involved.

Abstract: A tree slasher in which the entire trunk of a tree may be simultaneously cut into a plurality of selected lengths to meet subsequent processing requirements. The slasher, while large, is mobile and may, if desired, be taken to the vicinity of the tree-cutting areas thereby to minimize the distances the tree trunks must be hauled prior to cutting.

Abstract: A slitter having slitting blades juxtaposed to the periphery of a bristle-face anvil roll is provided with a dust collector adjacent the interface between said blades and roll. The dust collector includes a housing having a slot for receiving dust and a manifold chamber. Spaced partitions in the housing provide communication between the manifold chamber and specific portions of said opening.

Abstract: Window panels are cut in sheet material by means of a rotatable panel cutter and the sheet material is thereafter conveyed to a location adjacent a panel or chip receiving means. A negative pressure is applied to the underside of the sheet, the cut panel or chip is conveyed away from the sheet by the negative pressure. Turnaround rollers are provided for the sheet material. Where the panel is not completely severed from the sheet, a portion of the panel will be deflected by the turnaround roller and a blade is positioned adjacent the turnaround roller to engage the panel and remove the panel from the sheet. Air blast means are provided in overlying relation with the web above the panel receiving means to dislodge the panel from the sheet so that the air blast means will also dislodge the severed panel in the sheet passing between the panel receiving means and the air blast means.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for opening and conveying freshly spun staple fiber bundles. Said device is attached to a staple fiber cutter and consists of an axial blower with increased space between the fan blades and the interior wall of the casing.

Abstract: Envelope machine of the window-applicator type and means for avoiding application of gum to window when envelope blank is missing and to dispose of the window under similar circumstances.

Abstract: This invention relates to a cutting device for coated plates comprising frame means,First stationary cover plate means on said frame means,Second movable cover plate means on said frame means,Heatable knife means adapted to be displaced along one edge of said first stationary cover plate means between said first and second cover plate means,Carriage means below said cover plate means for supporting said knife means,And means for displacing said carriage means and said knife means supported thereby.

Abstract: A machine for cutting or slicing celery, carrots, or other elongate vegetables into pieces of selected size, accomplished on a rapid and highly economical basis. My machine utilizes a plurality of endless, moving belts, with one of the belts being arranged to receive vegetables deposited thereon, and to transport same to a location adjacent what may be regarded as the terminus of the belt. Mean such as other moving belts are utilized for gradually applying pressure to the vegetables during their travel along the length of the vegetable-supporting belt, thus to accomplish a compression of such vegetables into a tightly compacted mass. High speed cutter means operative adjacent the terminus serve to cut the vegetables into small pieces, with the size of the pieces being determined by the speed of the cutter relative to the velocity of the belts.

Abstract: An elongated horizontal workpiece support is provided and an elongated lower support arm extends transversely beneath and is oscillatably supported, centrally intermediate its opposite ends, from the longitudinal central portion of the workpiece support. One end of the support arm includes an upright standard supported therefrom and projecting upwardly above the workpiece support. An upper support arm is secured at one end from the upper end portion of the standard and extends over the workpiece support and generally parallels the lower support arm disposed beneath the workpiece support. A depending mount is slidably mounted on the upper support arm for guided movement therealong and a powered rotary saw blade is journaled from a lower portion of the depending mount with the saw blade disposed in an upright plane containing the upper support arm.

Abstract: Improved dust collector for radial arm saws of the type in which a generally funnel-shaped flat-bottomed hood, or shroud, is connected to a vacuum hose and positioned at the rear of the worktable. The bottom, or floor, of the shroud has a rearwardly extending slot through which a bolt is inserted to connect the hood to a spacer board of the worktable, thereby permitting the shroud to be rotated so as to align with the saw blade. A support member is positioned between the saw base and the floor to maintain the shroud in level position.

Abstract: A process and a gel cutting device constructed and adapted to remove gel like material from a surface, the device having a hollow body with fluid communication therethrough, a pickup conduit attached to the inlet of the body, a cutter on the inlet end of the pickup conduit. The outlet of the body is connectable to a vacuum source. In operation the process and the gel cutter have the cutter of the pickup conduit passed into gel material, cutting same and passing the removed material through the pickup conduit into the hollow body.

Abstract: Apparatus for severing a tow of crimped textile fibers has an outer cage and an inner cage. The inner cage has an annulus of idler rollers extending in parallelism with the common axis of the cages, and the outer cage has an annulus of elongated knives whose cutting edges spacedly surround and face the rollers. A tow of textile fibers is fed axially into the inner cage and is guided radially outwardly by an eyelet in the inner cage to enter a ring-shaped compartment between the knives and the rollers. A motor drives the inner cage or the outer cage to thereby convolute the tow in the compartment whereby the driven cage adds convolutions in the region immediately adjacent to the rollers and such convolutions cause the outer convolutions to expand toward and to be severed by the cutting edges. The severed fibers are withdrawn by a suction chamber which surrounds the outer cage.

Abstract: Improved form of dust collector for radial arm saws in which a funnel-shaped hood positioned at the rear of the work table is held in place by a clamp mounted so as to overlie the spacer board which is at the rear of the work table. In a preferred embodiment, the clamp has an inverted L-shaped cross-section, a vertical portion of the clamp being gripped between the back of the rear table and the spacer board, and a horizontal portion of the clamp extending over the floor of the hood. Dust and wood particles generated when the saw is used in a ripping position are advantageously and efficiently collected by connecting a vacuum hose to the saw blade guard by a suitable adapter.

Abstract: A rotary perforating apparatus for forming the guide perforations in photographic film, wherein the mechanism which controls the movements of the punch carrier arms comprises a control disc which rotates eccentrically with respect to a film-supporting wheel, and wherein the punch carrier arms are connected to said control disc through control arms which may perform a spacial swinging movement, thereby to provide a mechanism which is little subject to wear, and wherein standard ball bearings and ball joints may be used.

Abstract: An automated envelope opener receives a stack of unopened envelopes of varying sizes, types and shapes, and feeds these envelopes individually to a cutting station. An edge of each envelope is automatically aligned with a reference surface, whereby each such aligned envelope edge can be cut at the cutting station by a rotating multi-toothed cutter and stationary anvil which are also aligned with the reference surface. In a preferred embodiment, means are additionally provided for shingling and stacking the envelopes after they have been cut open.

Abstract: A cutting apparatus employs a cutting wheel which is rotated about an axis perpendicular to a support surface on which sheet material is positioned for cutting. A stripping plate is mounted in closely spaced relationship with the cutting wheel so that shredded material generated by the wheel during a cutting operation is sheared off. The cutting wheel in a cutting operation is advanced relative to the sheet material so that the leading cutting edges of the wheel, rather than the trailing edges, move along the desired line of cut. The material being cut is positioned on a bed that can be penetrated by the wheel and the depth of penetration of the wheel into the bed is regulated to remain substantially constant as the tool moves along the line of cut.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for the removal of tobacco cuttings in the wrapper cutting portion of a cigar making machine in which a hollow, rotatable die turret having a pair of hollow die units on its upper surface, air openings at its lower surface and passageways from such openings to the interior of the units, is rotatably mounted on a stationary support having a pair of air chambers therein with openings in the upper wall thereof which permit air to flow into or out of the turret passageways through the openings at its lower surface at various portions of the cycle of rotation of the turret. Each die unit has holes around the periphery of the cutting edge which extend into the die unit interior. One of the chambers is kept continuously under vacuum so that during part of the rotation of the turret, air is drawn through the die unit holes to maintain a strip of tobacco on top of a die unit.

Abstract: Tufting apparatus utilizing pneumatic means for transporting yarn strands including a threader tube assembly capable of delivering a plurality of yarn strands through multiple passageways to, and loading same, in tufting elements which apply bit-lengths of the strands into a backing layer.

Abstract: A tufting machine having multi-color selection capability for each tufting cycle which utilizes pneumatic pressure either positive or negative, or a combination of the two, to transfer the yarn or other tufting material to tufting elements, the yarn being severed before, during, or after threading, for subsequent placement into tufting relationship with a backing layer. The system comprises yarn guide passageways having abutting sections which are relatively movable to create an opening through which a yarn-severing means severs the yarn into selectively-sized bits. The relative positions of the yarn-severing means and the abutting sections of the passageways are adjustable to provide yarn bits of selected varying lengths. Clamping means may be used to clamp the yarn at the tufting needles until tufting occurs. After tufting the tufted yarn is moved away from the needle position to avoid entanglement by the succeeding motions of the tufting.

Abstract: A tufting machine having: means for metering predetermined lengths of yarn, including a rotatable yarn feed with substantially accurate improved drive and braking means; pneumatic yarn transport means, including selective control of gas flow, for transporting selected metered lengths of yarn to a tufting station for severance into yarn bits and implantations into a backing; and retraction means for retracting, with minimum yarn deformation, yarn not selected for severance and implantation.

Abstract: The invention deals with a trim removal system for equipment used in cutting biscuits from a continuously moving strip of dough. The cutter consists of an endless conveyor entrained over a pair of spaced sprocket assemblies positioned beneath the advancing dough sheet. Dough cutting rings project upwardly from the conveyor. As the dough is advanced it is pressed onto the rings. A biscuit size piece passes through the center of each ring and is deposited in a container positioned to receive it. The trim removal belt is provided with a multiplicity of holes of just the proper size to fit over the rings so that the upper run of the belt rests in contact with the upper surface of the conveyor. Guides are provided for bringing a belt into engagement with the upper run of the conveyor at an oblique angle and for raising the belt and trim from the surface of the conveyor at a predetermined oblique angle. The trim is then returned for remixing with fresh dough.