Active Delivery Means Mounted On Tool Support Patents (Class 83/150)
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Patent number: 10830330Abstract: A belt-driven starter-generator includes a rotary shaft, and a pulley belt coupled on an outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft. A key is press-fitted into a pocket formed between the rotary shaft and the pulley belt so as to fix the rotary shaft to the pulley belt. A coupling member is coupled to a thread formed on the outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft so as to support one side of the pulley belt. Operational reliability and assembly convenience may be improved by the belt-driven starter-generator of the present disclosure.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Hyun Soo Yu
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Publication number: 20150122096Abstract: Disclosed is a carcass cutting and winding apparatus which cuts carcass cord paper rubber-topped in a rolling process during manufacture of a tire according to a predetermined angle and width, and winds the carcass cord paper around a winder with liner paper being interposed therebetween, to prevent folding and crumpling of the cut carcass cord paper while enabling process automation, thereby improving winding uniformity of the carcass material.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2014Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventor: A Min KIM
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Patent number: 8813619Abstract: A cutting assembly for a printer that includes a cutting frame that has opposing side walls is provided. The cutting assembly further includes a blade housing slidably mounted in the cutting frame for slidable movement along the side walls and a blade fixed in the blade housing that includes a cutting edge. The cutting assembly further includes a plurality of ejector posts that extends from the blade housing in a direction of blade housing slidable movement and past the cutting edge to engage media being cut by the cuffing edge.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2009Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Brady Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Brent A. Bandholz, Richard L. Carriere
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Publication number: 20130247728Abstract: An optical fiber cutter/coating material remover apparatus includes an optical fiber cutter unit and a coating material remover unit, the apparatus being configured such that the end portion of the multi-core optical fiber is cut while the optical fiber cutter unit is apart from the coating material remover unit, the cut end portion of the multi-core optical fiber is inserted into the coating material remover unit by sliding the optical fiber cutter unit or the coating material remover unit so that the optical fiber cutter unit and the coating material remover unit are in contact with each other, and then the coating material is removed by sliding the optical fiber cutter unit or the coating material remover unit so that the optical fiber cutter unit is apart from the coating material remover unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Minoru SEKINE, Yuji Watanabe, Yoshimi Iijima
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Publication number: 20120255408Abstract: The invention relates to an electrically operated disc cutting machine for cutting discs from strand-shaped cutting goods, having a cutting unit, which comprises a circular blade mounted in a rotatable manner in a drive housing, an electric motor surrounded by the drive housing, and a base plate on which the drive housing is installed in a cantilevered manner via at least one support column extending in the vertical direction. The invention is characterized in that the support column in the horizontal direction remains open, in which at least one accessory unit for the further processing of cut cutting goods is arranged, wherein a connection of the accessory unit is accommodated in the drive housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2010Publication date: October 11, 2012Inventor: Nikolaus Koch
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Publication number: 20120210837Abstract: A book trimmer is provided. The book trimmer includes an infeed device supplying a plurality of books to be trimmed, an edge trimming knife for trimming the books which is movable back and forth in a book travel direction and a conveyor downstream of the edge trimming knife, the conveyor including a reciprocating section movable back and forth in the book travel direction, the conveyor positively controlling the books as the books are received from the infeed device. A method for trimming a book is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2012Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: GOSS INTERNATIONAL AMERICAS, INC.Inventor: Glenn Alan GUARALDI
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Publication number: 20090165614Abstract: A device for transferring a tail of a cellulose based fibrous web from a first unit to a second unit, the device includes: a separating member adapted to form a space between a first face of the tail and the first unit; a tail pick up pulley to be inserted in the space between the first face of the tail and the first unit, the tail pick up pulley moving the tail into a cutting position; a cutting device for cutting the tail at the cutting position, and a tail conveyor device for catching the tail cut at the cutting position and for forwarding the cut tail to the second unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2007Publication date: July 2, 2009Applicant: ANDRITZ TECHNOLOGY AND ASSET MANAGEMENT GMBHInventors: Rolf Petersson, Mats Nyhlen
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Publication number: 20090100889Abstract: A cutoff unit for cutting a variably swept continuous beam extending from a roll forming mill includes a pickup subassembly for tracking a shape of the continuous beam, and a cutoff subassembly that engages and supports sides of the continuous beam while a blade slices transversely through the continuous beam. A controller connected to the roll forming mill and to the cutoff unit controls the cutoff unit to allow pass through of the continuous beam, and is configured to actuate the pickup and then actuate the blade to cut the continuous beam into longitudinally symmetrical beam segments, each having a center section (swept or not) and with mirror-image equally-swept end sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2008Publication date: April 23, 2009Inventors: Richard D. Heinz, James H. Dodd, Wayne L. Ferris
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Publication number: 20090025519Abstract: Used tires are chopped up in a punch press which progressively punches out areas of each tire lying flat in the press. The tire fragments are conveyed from the press to a collection container. An elevator mechanism may receive four tires stacked vertically, each used tire therein successively fed into the press by a feed mechanism receiving each tire from the elevator mechanism. An on-site enclosure houses all of the components and a container of collected fragments which is accessed for removal through a door in the enclosure.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2008Publication date: January 29, 2009Inventors: Douglas T. Nanney, Claudia J. Nanney, Keith N. Goodreau, Karen K. Goodreau
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Publication number: 20080245202Abstract: A food processor comprises a body provided therein with an operating motor, a cutting seat, and an upper cover. The cutting seat is disposed within a space formed above the body and is linked with the operating motor, so that the cutting seat and the operating motor are rotated simultaneously. The upper cover is mounted on an upper end of the body and is provided with an introduced pipe extending downwardly from its surface. The introduced pipe includes a first introduced passageway and a second introduced passageway, which are interconnected with each other. Vegetables, fruit, or other food is introduced into a material inlet of the two passageways and pushed tightly with a material-pushing plunger to render the vegetables, fruit, or other food cut by the cutting seat at a material outlet at the bottom of the introduced pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2007Publication date: October 9, 2008Inventor: Wei-Chih Lin
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Patent number: 6745655Abstract: System for stacking blanks produced, particularly in a progressive die process, has one or more stacking mandrels which can be lifted and/or lowered in a stacking channel. The stacking mandrel/mandrels has/have a stacking mandrel top part and a stacking mandrel bottom part. At least one metal sheet holder is arranged in the area of the stacking mandrel top part. The stacking bottom part has a rotatable construction.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2001Date of Patent: June 8, 2004Assignee: Schuler Pressen GmbH & Co.Inventors: Wilfried Abt, Alfred Bareis
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Patent number: 6655429Abstract: A saw mill includes a base frame having a front and a rear and being sized and configured to support a log; saw apparatus having a cutting blade and being connected with the base frame for horizontal movement in a cutting stroke from a start position near the front of the base frame to an end position near the rear of the base frame and in a return stroke back to the front of the base frame and being for cutting in a generally horizontal plane a board from the log; power apparatus for powering the saw apparatus; at least one pushback arm connected to the saw apparatus and being sized and configured to engage and eject the board from atop the log during the return stroke; and, a board guide apparatus extending generally forwardly from the saw apparatus and including a crossbar and plurality of fingers connected with the crossbar and positioned to engage and guide the board in a desired path as it is being ejected from the log, each finger including an upper link connected to the crossbar and a lower link hingeType: GrantFiled: July 26, 2002Date of Patent: December 2, 2003Assignee: Wood-Mizer Products, Inc.Inventors: Daniel R. Tekulve, Scott Laskowski
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Publication number: 20030164077Abstract: A depaneling system is disclosed for cutting a panel. The depaneling system comprises a tooling apparatus and a cutting apparatus. The tooling apparatus helps hold the panel in place with suction during cutting of said panel and collects dust particles generated by the cutting of the panel. The cutting apparatus is comprised of a housing, a drive motor, a cutting unit, and a drive connector. The housing separates the drive motor from the cutting unit. The housing comprises a first section and a second section separated by a dividing member. The drive connector, such as a belt, passes through the first section of the housing. The second section of the housing forms a path for the dust particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2003Publication date: September 4, 2003Inventors: Kurt John Hill, Bob Allen Williams, Travis Wayne Groves, Allen W. Duck
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Publication number: 20020104415Abstract: System for stacking blanks produced, particularly in a progressive die process, has one or more stacking mandrels which can be lifted and/or lowered in a stacking channel. The stacking mandrel/mandrels has/have a stacking mandrel top part and a stacking mandrel bottom part. At least one metal sheet holder is arranged in the area of the stacking mandrel top part. The stacking bottom part has a rotatable construction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2001Publication date: August 8, 2002Inventors: Wilfried Abt, Alfred Bareis
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Patent number: 6237217Abstract: For removing defective transponder units or electronic transponder equipment a web (6)is parted in a station (23) firstly in front and then at the rear of the individual unit. Thereafter the picked out unit is conveyed off transverse to a working plane (3)and the two resulting web ends are transferred into a directly juxtaposed station (24). There the web ends are fixedly interconnected by welding, glueing or the like. Therefrom a use web arises, which includes only non-defective units since the defective units were previously detected by a sensor (32)and then severed out as described with the aid of a control device (50). This fully automatically working apparatus (1)coils the processed use tape in a store (26)into a roll (40)which is suitable for further processing in a machine.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1999Date of Patent: May 29, 2001Assignee: bielomatik Leuze GmbH & Co.Inventors: Martin Bohn, Wolfgang Scheller
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Patent number: 6192778Abstract: A cutting apparatus for separating packages from a line of interconnected packages. The technical problem is to simplify the cutting apparatus and shorten the set-up times and the work cycles. This problem is achieved with a lower knife (4) capable of being moved in between the packages in the vertical direction from below and with an upper roll (12) capable of being moved, together with a discharge gripper (11) for the separated packages, parallel to the conveying section while being pressed against the lower knife.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 1999Date of Patent: February 27, 2001Inventor: Thies Eggers
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Patent number: 5921160Abstract: A release assembly for wire cutting apparatus. The present invention provides a release assembly for wire cutting apparatus which allows for dynamic alteration of the cut parameters. The release assembly allows for the length of the wire to be cut to be altered, allows for the biasing force to be increased or decreased to thereby reset the release assembly for a wide range of wire gauges, and allows for the stroke length to be altered to thereby either increase or decrease the cut frequency. The release assembly includes a housing having a distal end, a proximal end and a longitudinal chamber. A plunger tube is slidably disposed in the longitudinal chamber and is biased towards the proximal end by a dynamically adjustable spring mechanism. A gauge rod is mounted within the plunger tube at an adjustable axial position. In operation, the wire being pulled from the coil engages the gauge rod and pushes the gauge rod and plunger tube in the distal direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1997Date of Patent: July 13, 1999Assignee: Rockford Manufacturing Group, Inc.Inventors: Michael J. Yankaitis, Michael Kern, Irvin Burns, Patrick Robbins
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Patent number: 5865081Abstract: An apparatus for cutting thin tissue sections using an anti-roll rake. The anti-roll rake comprises a rake head for engaging the cut tissue section and leading it away from the specimen block without rolling. The rake head is hingedly mounted to a mounting surface in the cutting instrument by way of a linkage assembly in order to provide freedom of movement between the various operational and non-operational positions.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 1995Date of Patent: February 2, 1999Assignee: Sakura Finetek U.S.A., Inc.Inventor: John Charles Myers
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Patent number: 5660073Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming a ball of relatively small diameter from metal wire includes a cutoff bar and a slide mechanism for shearing a length of metal wire from the remainder thereof at a first station to provide a blank with which a ball is subsequently formed and for transporting the blank to a second station and also includes a specially-designed punch assembly for forming the blank into a ball at the second station. The punch assembly includes a main slide body and a blank-engaging plunger assembly slidably mounted on the main slide body for sliding movement therealong wherein the plunger which is biased, by air pressure, from a retracted position to an extended position relative to the main slide body.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 1995Date of Patent: August 26, 1997Assignee: MCM Corporation of OneidaInventors: Michael R. McBroom, Willard A. Farley
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Patent number: 5388489Abstract: A dough-processing system for dividing a dough sheet into multiple separate portions and transporting each portion in a predetermined direction. A rotary cutter, having a multiplicity of cutting dies affixed thereon, divides the dough sheet. The cutting dies have an exterior peripheral cutting edge for cutting the linear dough sheet into two or more linear portions for further processing on standard conveyor systems and an interior peripheral cutting edge for cutting an interior portion from the snack-piece dough. The rotary cutter includes an internal helical auger rigidly affixed to an external cylindrical mandrill having first and second ends and having a multiplicity of cutting dies affixed thereon. The rotary cutter has an ever-increasing diameter funnel path for transporting the interior cut portion of the snack-piece dough into the interior of the rotary cutter and thereupon the helical auger transports it out to the side of the rotary cutter.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 1994Date of Patent: February 14, 1995Assignee: Miles J. WillardInventor: Kyle E. Dayley
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Patent number: 5312058Abstract: In winding machine for material webs (4), particularly paper or cardboard webs, it is known to provide devices for severing the material web (4) on the bearing or support cylinder (1), which have a cutting element applicable to the web (4) in a wrapped area of the bearing or support cylinder (1) and movable across the running direction of the web.In order to achieve through a simple construction a safe severing of the web (4) during roll exchange, according to the invention a freely rotatably supported wheel (19) having a sharp peripheral edge which can be resiliently pressed against the bearing or support cylinder (1) is used as a cutting element.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 1992Date of Patent: May 17, 1994Assignee: Jagenberg AktiengesellschaftInventors: Dieter Brandt, Luzian Kies, Heinrich Klingen
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Patent number: 5195412Abstract: A cutoff system for exterior siding which includes a flying punch and shear. The system includes a main carriage which is adapted to reciprocate and, in one direction of travel, move at the same speed as the siding to be cut. A pair of punches are then actuated to form the hanger and butt notches at the lateral edges of the siding. Upon withdrawal of the punches, the travel of the main cylinder is slowed such that the siding travels away from the punching area. Upon sensing the notched areas, the main carriage is again moved to travel at the same speed as the siding. The speed is timed such that the center of the notches is located below a shear. This shear is then actuated to form a single parting line across the siding. The carriage is then retracted to await the next cycle of the system. As such, with each cycle of the system, the notches are formed in the trailing and leading edges of adjacent panel segments, and the leading panel segment cut from the continuous siding.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 1991Date of Patent: March 23, 1993Assignee: Plastics Extrusion MachineryInventors: Peter D. Flemming, Douglas M. Hawkinson, Douglas W. Stout, Robert T. Fry
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Patent number: 5156075Abstract: Apparatus for removing and disposing of scrap paper chips impaled on a roller rotating away from the cutting region of a rotary cutter has a pneumatic baffle plate located a distance of 3/8 to 11/2 inches away from the roller, defining a narrow flow channel through which an air stream is sucked by a centrifugal fan. The baffle is spaced apart from the roller a distance such as to impart a high velocity to the air stream due to aerodynamic effects, causing chips to be forcibly removed from the roller when the chips reach an area above the flow channel. The baffle along with a chute that supports it and duct leading to the fan provide an enclosed channel for movement of the chips. The baffle edge adjacent the roller is provided with a curved surface to provide smooth flow of the air stream. The output of the fan has an air duct connected for conveying the chips to disposal.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 1991Date of Patent: October 20, 1992Inventors: Gaines P. Campbell, Jr., Blaine C. Stambaugh
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Patent number: 5031495Abstract: A cutter for punching a sheet of material having a fixed block disposed so as to face one side of the sheet, a punching blade disposed at the opposite side of the sheet relative to the fixed block, a cutting blade disposed spacedly and along the punching blade, and a transporting roller disposed inside the moving blade. A punched-out portion punched by the punching blade is thereby transported with and separated from a punched-remaining portion cut by the cutting blade.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 1988Date of Patent: July 16, 1991Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mikio Kogane, Mizuho Nishimura, Tsutomu Kimura
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Patent number: 5024128Abstract: A sheeter for a web fed printing press having:an infeed section;a first cutting head into which the infeed section feeds the web, the first cutting head for cutting the web transversely comprising a circular knife cylinder and corresponding anvil cylinder having circumferences larger than the repeat length of the press;a sheet transfer section having rollers, which moves the cut web from the first cutting head to a second cutting head;the second cutting head comprising a circular knife cylinder and corresponding anvil cylinder to cut a chip from the cut web, a motor to rotate the first and second cutting heads and sheet transfer section rollers at the same surface speed; andnip rollers to deliver the finished product from the second cutting head to a delivery system.The second cutting head can be rotated with respect to the first cutting head so that the length of the chip can be increased or decreased.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1989Date of Patent: June 18, 1991Inventor: Gaines P. Campbell, Jr.
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Patent number: 4939967Abstract: A cut-off machine for cutting off predetermined lengths from a moving length of roll form material such as tubing adapted to be positioned downstream from a source such as a tube mill for receiving a moving length from the mill and severing plural predetermined lengths from the moving length. The machine comprises a plurality of cut-off assemblies which are reciprocated longitudinally of the moving length of material formed by the mill and operated during the movement to sever plural predetermined lengths. The reciprocating and cutting movements are mechanically derived from a motor driven in synchronism with the speed of movement of the moving length. The apparatus includes mechanisms that permit the length of the tubes to be changed while the machine is operating.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1989Date of Patent: July 10, 1990Inventor: Bernard J. Wallis
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Patent number: 4932296Abstract: An apparatus and method for cutting segments from a strip of limp sheet material advanced lengthwise along a planar support surface utilizes a finger mechanism for ensuring that following severance of the strip from the remainder thereof, the remainder of the strip is guided along a desired path. The segments are cut from the strip by a pair of blades which move between an open condition accommodating the advancement of the strip to a position between the blades for cutting and a closed condition for cutting a segment from the strip and wherein the severed strip end is bent away from the plane of the support surface by the closing of the blades.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1989Date of Patent: June 12, 1990Inventor: Everett C. Boone
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Patent number: 4892019Abstract: A cutter for punching a sheet of material having a fixed block disposed so as to face one side of the sheet, a moving blade disposed at the opposite side of the sheet relative to the fixed block, and a transporting roller disposed inside the moving blade. A punched-out portion is thereby transported along with a punched-remainder portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 1987Date of Patent: January 9, 1990Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mikio Kogane, Mizuho Nishimura, Tsutomu Kimura
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Patent number: 4823662Abstract: An apparatus for handling bar-like workpiece material in a sawing machine, in particular in the form of a miter-box saw, whichhas a clamping carriage that is disposed on the machine frame above the workpiece table and is movable horizontally and parallel to the feed direction of the workpiece material. On one workpiece side, the clamping carriage has two openable and closable bearing jaws, and facing them in the direction of the workpiece material it has three openable and closable clamping jaws disposed beside one another in the material feed direction. The openable and closing jaws are coordinated such that a stock material is held in place for sawing a measured piece and then the cut piece and stock material are moved together to a position for the nextcut length. The cut piece is then moved and released. The steps are repeated to cut the next and successive pieces.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1987Date of Patent: April 25, 1989Assignee: Keuro Maschinenbau GmbH & Co., KGInventor: Armin Stolzer
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Patent number: 4791845Abstract: A straight line shear has a pair of carriages which support opposed pairs of shear blade assemblies. These carriages are displaceable to shear gobs from molten runners of glass. Each shear blade assembly can be adjusted relative to its carriage, in the direction of carriage displacement, and to this end shear blade assembly guide pins are slidingly received in carriage bushings. These bushings have one axial portion which is press fit into a carriage bore and the remaining portion has an enlarged threaded interdiameter which extends the bushing and hence its life and which enables the bushing to be pulled from its bore by a hand tool having a threaded socket.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 1987Date of Patent: December 20, 1988Assignee: Emhart Industries, Inc.Inventor: Douglas W. Wright
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Patent number: 4671151Abstract: A paper tail cutter for cutting and deflecting a tail from a moving sheet of paper. A cutter body member is pivotally mounted to swing a knife up through the moving sheet of paper, thereby cutting a narrow tail at one side of the moving sheet. The tail is supported by the body member and deflected away from the moving paper sheet for delivery to apparatus such as a stack of calender rolls.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 1985Date of Patent: June 9, 1987Assignee: Fibron Machine CorporationInventor: Sidney C. Rooney
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Patent number: 4648299Abstract: A tear-open strip is severed from a band of material having a width equal to the desired length of the tear-open strip by cooperation between a stationary knife-edge defining member and a pivotal knife-edge defining member. The knife edges form chords of a hyperboloid of revolution and are inclined relative to one another. The pivotal knive-edge defining member is provided with suction ports adjacent to the cutting edge whereby a severed strip may be transported by the knife to an intermittently moving sheet of packaging material to which the strip is subsequently bonded.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 1985Date of Patent: March 10, 1987Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Alfred Schmermund GmbH & CoInventor: Knecht Siegfried
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Patent number: 4535662Abstract: The leading end of a continuous tubular supply is fed past a rotating flywheel into a guide. When the leading end reaches the back of the guide, a blade mounted on the flywheel severs the supply to form a straw or stirring stick. The straw is immediately ejected from the guide and is swept into the entrant portion of a feeder by a rotary brush. The feeder is provided with a stem-propelling run that is formed from a pair of top V-belts and a wide underbelt and between which the straw is propelled to a collecting hopper. Successive straws are pushed into the hopper under the impetus of the conveyor belts.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 1984Date of Patent: August 20, 1985Inventor: Homer S. Lynn
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Patent number: 4519283Abstract: A sawmill utilizing a bandsaw which is movable back and forth in the operation of cutting planks from a log that is cradled in a horizontal position. The cradle and the bandsaw are so arranged that the cutting portion of the saw is inclined at an angle to the vertical and so that the cutting plane is inclined at the same angle. The bandsaw is carried on a sub-frame which reciprocates longitudinally of a main frame of the mill. The main frame is preferably mounted upon wheels so that the mill is portable and can be taken from one forestry location to another.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1983Date of Patent: May 28, 1985Inventor: Dale Sanborn
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Patent number: 4476754Abstract: A machine for measuring and cutting predetermined lengths of electric cable such as armored (BX) or insulated cable which is supplied from a coil or reel to a "caterpillar" feed assembly and then to a cutting assembly, the feeding and cutting being synchronized and controlled to effect the cutting, automatically, of a predetermined number of pieces cut to predetermined uniform lengths, the controls including means for measuring the fed cable and for counting the number of pieces.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1981Date of Patent: October 16, 1984Inventor: Lucien C. Ducret
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Patent number: 4455902Abstract: An apparatus for parting-off pieces, particularly pieces of candy, from a strand of material, particularly a soft plastic strand of material, wherein the parted-off piece arrives on the upper side of the knife blade and is moved by this in the conveying direction so that there is practically no difference in speed between the parted-off piece and the entrainment member of a continuous conveyor engaging behind this, which conveyor pushes the parted-off pieces, with constant spacing apart, to a packing station or another further processing station. As a result, deformation and damage to the parted-off pieces is avoided during the conveying.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 1983Date of Patent: June 26, 1984Assignee: Rose Verpackungsmaschinenfabrik Theegarten GmbH & Co.Inventor: Heinz Schmitz
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Patent number: 4417378Abstract: Apparatus draws a continuous length of shrink tubing from a reel, cuts off a section, and advances it onto the terminated end of a lead carried by an adjacent conveyor. This is accomplished by shear blades integral with jaws which close on the end of the tubing to sever a section and contain it and shape it between the jaws. The jaws move vertically in a plate which is then advanced horizontally toward the lead. A feed clamp which descends with the jaws draws the continuous length forward then releases vertically as the jaws depart and a stationary clamp grips the tubing while the jaws and clamp return over the tubing for the next shearing and advance operation. Above motions are effected by levers and a slide driven by followers riding in cam grooves on discs carried by a single shaft. The end of the lead with tubing section thereon is transported laterally through a hot air duct type heater having slotted walls which permit passage of the lead therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 1981Date of Patent: November 29, 1983Assignee: AMP IncorporatedInventors: Christopher K. Brown, Willard L. Busler, Donald A. Wion
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Patent number: 4411181Abstract: An apparatus is provided for cutting and holding a piece of wire cord. The apparatus comprises a conveyor which includes a plurality of plates for movement in a first direction and a plurality of holding blocks wherein each of the holding blocks is mounted on a corresponding one of the plates. Each of the holding blocks has a fixed portion and a slidable holder portion, the slidable holder portion being slidable relative to the fixed portion. An advancing device advances the cord a predetermined length in a direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a cutter is positioned downstream of the advancing device for cutting the wire cord into cut portions of the predetermined length.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 1981Date of Patent: October 25, 1983Assignee: Kawasaki Electric Wire Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hideo Imai
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Patent number: 4389868Abstract: Apparatus for shearing and coiling strip material, the apparatus including a rotatable mandrel adapted to receive strip material thereon, a first cutter in fixed position proximate the mandrel, and a second cutter removed from the mandrel in a first position but movable to a second position adjacent the first cutter to effect a cutting operation, the first and second cutters having, respectively, first and second guide surfaces which, when the second cutter is in the second position, form a substantially continuous entry surface adapted to urge a cut end of the strip material into engagement with the mandrel.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 1981Date of Patent: June 28, 1983Assignee: The Gillette CompanyInventor: Robert B. Strout
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Patent number: 4277995Abstract: A rotary slicing tool is provided for a food processor having a hub with a horizontal disc-like member carrying an elevated slicing blade. The disc-like member has a horizontal area with an arcuate slot extending from the hub out to the periphery. The slicing blade is mounted on an elevated arcuate rim behind the slot with the cutting edge projecting forward and elevated above the horizontal area facing forward above the slot for slicing food items, with the slices passing down through the slot. For avoiding smashing or shredding of slices, a gradually sloping shoulder joins the horizontal area with the elevated platform having the rim where the slicing blade is mounted. Both ends of the blade are contoured to conform with the rotational direction of travel; the outer end conforming with the periphery of the disc-like member, and the inner end conforming with the hub, and the cutting edge is spaced well forward of the shoulder near both ends of the slicing blade.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 1979Date of Patent: July 14, 1981Inventor: Carl G. Sontheimer
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Patent number: 4214494Abstract: A straight line shearing mechanism which includes a unique pneumatic control system to cause the operation of the shears. One feature involves the cushioning of the piston member of the pneumatic cylinder assembly on the return stroke. Another feature is the provision of an automatic retract to open the shears in the event that the shear blades do not complete their cutting stroke. Also, one blade of a set of shear blades may tilt in the event of excess tension between the blades. Additionally, one shear blade is pivotally adjustable about a pin member having an axis extending in the direction of travel of the blades. Further, the drop guides are horizontally adjustable relative to its associated shear blade in the direction of travel of the shear blade and also adjustable about a vertical axis.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1979Date of Patent: July 29, 1980Assignee: Emhart Industries, Inc.Inventor: Francis A. Dahms
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Patent number: 4163524Abstract: Apparatus and method for cutting and feeding foliage material from a stack, the apparatus comprising a wheeled vehicle, for example a wagon pulled by a tractor, capable of being displaced along the ground, a tiltable bed thereon disposed in a parallel position between ground engaging wheels and a powered conveyor so that a stack of foliage may be loaded onto the bed from a position on the ground (or unloaded from the bed back to the ground) and also may be successively advanced along the conveyor bed to provide an overhang beneath and forward of a rotating angularly disposed variable cutter which travels horizontally and then vertically downward in a zig-zag pattern to successively cut slices of foliage from the overhang of the stack.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 1978Date of Patent: August 7, 1979Assignee: Ezra C. Lundahl, Inc.Inventors: Ezra C. Lundahl, J. Gordon Wiser
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Patent number: 4148237Abstract: An apparatus for simultaneously forming a plurality of terminals from a plurality of lengths of wire and inserting the terminals simultaneously into preformed openings in a plastic part. The apparatus includes a mechanism for simultaneously moving a plurality of lengths of wire which are held in spaced relation to one another to a severing position. The wires may be arranged in both horizontal and vertical planes. At the severing position, a shear is provided for simultaneously severing end portions from the lengths of wires to form a plurality of short wire terminals. The shears and an anvil support the terminals and maintain them in spaced relation to one another after severing for insertion into the preformed openings in the plastic part. The apparatus further includes a tool which supports the plastic part. A slide moves the plastic part and the terminals into engagement with one another to thereby embed the terminals in the preformed openings of the plastic part.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 1977Date of Patent: April 10, 1979Inventor: Maurice H. Brown
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Patent number: 4101368Abstract: In, or for use in, a vehicle inner tube splicing machine, a tube end cutting assembly comprising a cutting knife supporting carriage which is mounted on a pair of spaced parallel guide shafts and is reciprocated by hydraulically powered means. The knife supporting carriage also has mounted thereon scrap removal means which co-acts with cutting knives to remove off-cuts from said tube ends.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 1976Date of Patent: July 18, 1978Assignee: The Midland Designing & Manufacturing Co. Ltd.Inventor: Roy Arthur Page
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Patent number: 4085638Abstract: Apparatus for cutting lumber to random or specified clear lengths by removal of sections containing defects and by making single end or intermediate cuts, includes infeed means for transporting a piece of lumber, locating means for locating the piece of lumber longitudinally in the apparatus, a fixed saw for cutting the piece of lumber at a first position, and a sliding saw selectively positionable longitudinally with respect to the fixed saw for cutting the piece of lumber at a second position which is located a spaced distance from the first position co-extensive with the extent of the defect. The fixed saw also is configured for operation independently of the sliding saw for making the single cuts.Saw positioning means positions the sliding saw longitudinally, based on commands from a computer for removal of the defect with the minimum removal of clear lumber.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 1976Date of Patent: April 25, 1978Inventor: James T. Fifer
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Patent number: 4084465Abstract: A sugar cane planting machine for eliminating the excessive manual labor previously required to plant sugar cane stalks. The uncut stalks are loaded in the rear of a tractor-pulled cart at the bottom of which is positioned a conveyor-like belt for moving the cane towards the front of the cart. Slideably attached on a transversely positioned guide member of a pivotable frame at the front of the cart is a combination cross-cutting and kicker-chain assembly which moves laterally across the width of the cart under hydraulic controls. Said assemblies include a downwardly extending chain saw which is followed by at least one vertically disposed kicker-chain, both preferably under the control of a common motor. Below the kicker-chain assembly is positioned a trough or hopper having an opening formed along the bottom thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 1976Date of Patent: April 18, 1978Inventor: Clet Dugas
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Patent number: 4078461Abstract: A press apparatus which comprises a press body formed of a bed and a ram, fitted with an upper die; an auxiliary bed disposed adjacent to the bed and designed to be rotated at a prescribed angle thereto; a rotation mechanism for rotating the auxiliary bed; a bolster reciprocating along both beds; a shifting mechanism for effecting the reciprocation of the bolster; a lock mechanism designed normally to keep both beds engaged with each other, thereby preventing the rotation of the auxiliary bed, when the bolster is shifted to that prescribed point on the auxiliary bed at which the rotation axes of both bolster and auxiliary bed are aligned with each other, to disengage both beds from each other, thereby allowing the rotation of the auxiliary bed and bolster for complete removal of a press-worked product, for example a trimmed product, or scrap (including runner refuse) attached to a lower die and a forwarding mechanism designed to send forth a press-worked product taken off by a product-pushing cylinder to theType: GrantFiled: March 18, 1977Date of Patent: March 14, 1978Assignee: Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroyuki Ohta
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Patent number: 4027563Abstract: Precision guide means for accurately directing lumber to and/or receiving cut lengths from saws. The guide means is mounted for selective movement by setworks back and forth across a path along which the lumber moves. A closed hydraulic system includes piston-cylinder units with a unit near each of opposite ends of the guide means. One end of each cylinder unit is fixed against movement and the opposite end thereof is connected to the adjacent end of the guide means, and pipe means interconnects these cylinder units so that when the guide means is moved, hydraulic fluid is transferred from an end of one of the units to an opposite end of another unit to ensure that both ends of the guide means move exactly the same distance. The guide means can be a linebar and a tailbar interconnected by the hydraulic system so that they are moved in unison exactly the same distance by the setworks. The guide means can be or include a relatively long splitter.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 1976Date of Patent: June 7, 1977Assignee: CAE Machinery Ltd.Inventor: Jack Weavell
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Patent number: 3979982Abstract: Dispensing apparatus has a holder supporting an opened can of a jellied food product with its open end downwardly disposed and spaced from a stop that limits the extent to which the body of the jellied food product protrudes from the can. A blade is operable to sever a slice from the protruding end of the jellied food product and means are provided to ensure the discharge of the slices onto a receiver having means for collecting juices escaping from the can. Means are also provided to puncture the closed end of the can while supported by the holder and to provide an air assist to cause the jelly body to slide towards the stop.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 1974Date of Patent: September 14, 1976Inventor: Lawrence S. Cole
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Patent number: RE34645Abstract: A paper tail cutter for cutting .Iadd.a leading edge upon .Iaddend.and deflecting a tail from a moving sheet of paper. A cutter body member is pivotally mounted to swing a knife up through the .Iadd.path of .Iaddend.the moving sheet of paper, .[.thereby cutting.]. .Iadd.to engage .Iaddend.a narrow, .Iadd.previously severed, .Iaddend.tail at one side of the moving sheet. The tail is supported by the body member and deflected away from the moving paper sheet .Iadd.as the leading edge is simultaneously cut thereon .Iaddend.for delivery to apparatus such as a stack of calender rolls.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 1991Date of Patent: June 28, 1994Assignee: Fibron Machine CorporationInventor: Sidney C. Rooney