Abstract: A device for slitting billets rolled to produce a multiple stranded bar, in which a guide member and support rollers direct the multiple stranded bar, emerging from a stand, against a rotary knife having a circular blade bevelled peripherally to provide shoulders over which individual strands will ride, thus splitting the bar in advance of the knife. Passages behind the knife channel the individual strands.

Abstract: In a layboy arrangement to which are delivered simultaneously side-by-side sheets to form a plurality of piles of such sheets edge joggers are provided to align the outside edges of the piles of sheets and a mechanism is provided which operates to align the adjacent edges of adjacent piles. The mechanism is in the form of a chain guide bar or plate around which an endless link chain is driven and from which project a set of overlapping leaves. The apparatus is mounted such that the overlapping leaves on the bottom edge of the chain bar project between the piles of sheets. The chain is driven to move the leaves around the periphery of the chain bar such that an active surface moves in the direction of travel between the sheets as they are edge jogged into their even edge piles on opposite sides of the overlapping leaves of the guide mechanism.

Abstract: Large sheets of rigid cookie wafers carried by a first conveyor are longitudinally divided by a saw. The resulting small sheets are laterally spaced and each is fed between positioning guides onto a pair of edge support members positioned over a second conveyor extending at right angles to the first conveyor. Each support member is mounted on a pair of arms extending upwardly from a rotatable shaft passing beneath the second conveyor. The pair of shafts carrying each pair of edge support members are rotated simultaneously in opposite directions by a cam driven lever arrangement to separate the support members allowing the sheet supported thereby to drop upon the seond conveyor. Separate cams control each pair of shafts and the two sheets are dropped in sequence to provide an uninterrupted flow of evenly spaced sheets on the second conveyor.