Abstract: A method and apparatus for cutting metal rods into shorter lengths comprising a movable cutting line (A) which is made up of a portal bench (1) which can slide transversely on rails (B) to align itself with a stored bundle of rods, the bench (1) having a first extraction device (2) for the partial extraction of a bundle of rods (b) from the store, arranged so as to transfer onto the feed and cutting line (X--X) a sub-bundle of rods (b') to a second extraction device (3) for subsequent extraction consisting of gripper-pincers (3.1) which can be moved alternately backwards and forwards along the line (X--X), placed upstream of shears (4), which operate in conjunction with a similar device (5) for subsequent extraction and feed placed downstream of the shears.

Abstract: Apparatus for accumulating stacks of paper sheets has a cross cutter which repeatedly severs several overlapping running paper webs to form a series of groups of overlapping sheets. Such groups are accumulated into layers at a gathering station, and successively formed layers are engaged and withdrawn by a transfer unit which delivers the layers into the range of a withdrawing conveyor serving to deliver the layers to a stack forming station. The operation of the transfer unit is controlled by a rotary camshaft which is driven by the prime mover for the cross cutter through the medium of a computer-controlled step-down transmission arrangement having a compensating transmission whose control shaft is adjustable by the computer, whose input member receives torque from the prime mover and whose output shaft drives the camshaft through the medium of a change-speed transmission, an adjustable planetary transmission, a bevel gear transmission and a gear transmission.

Abstract: A cutting press equipped for handling and treating or working plate-shaped workpieces or articles, especially of sheet metal, includes at least one cutting tool which is driven from a main drive of the machine through transmission components and its own driving arrangement. An additional severing arrangement is mounted on the same machine frame and is equipped with its own driving arrangement, the transmission members being selectively coupleable with the cutting tool and with the severing arrangement. The machine further includes a coordinate table for advancing the respective workpiece. An entraining arrangement is provided at the part of the machine frame which is associated with the severing arrangement and at the region of the workpiece which is free from the severing tools. The entraining arrangement is arranged above a support surface for the workpiece which extends in the same plane as the support surface of the coordinate table and is lowerable toward the workpiece.

Abstract: A shearing machine is disclosed which comprises a work table, a pair of upper and lower blades for cutting a work-sheet, and a feeder for feeding the work-sheet onto the work table for cutting by the blades. A scrap receiver receives scrap cut from the work-sheet by the blades and a scrap remover positioned in front of the blades clamps and holds a piece of scrap from the work-sheet and transports the scrap to the scrap receiver. The scrap remover is movable in a horizontal plane above the work table.

Abstract: The invention concerns a three-knife cutting machine, in which dogs on a conveying chain in machine tempo transport the material to be cut from a magazine and into a transfer station, in which pushers moveable in the direction of transport take over the material to be cut and transport it up against stops in the cutting station, in which besides two back stops two stops for the head and foot sides of the delivered cutting material are provided, whereby the stops are moveable in machine tempo back into the transfer station and again into the cutting station and, for transport of the cut material from the cutting station, further stops are located before the first stops in the direction of transport and capable of moving together with the latter, the further stops being located at such a distance from the first stops that the further stops assume a carrying position in the cutting station for the cut material which is lying there when the first stops are located in the transfer station, and whereby all stops ca

Abstract: Apparatus for cutting planar workpieces including a saw movable through a cutting stroke in a substantially horizontal direction with a first and a second table being provided on opposite sides of the saw. The planar workpieces are first fed from the first table onto the second table through a first cutting operation and the cut parts are rotated relative to the saw on the second table and then fed through a second cutting operation back onto the first table. A pusher device is provided on the second table for feeding the planar cut parts and a feeding device on the first table operates to selectively feed planar strips from the first table to the second table. The first table is provided with two sets of rollers capable of conveying planar parts in two transverse directions with the sets of rollers being vertically displaceable relative to each other.

Abstract: A device is provided for feeding a continuous fabric web to a machine for sewing women's pantyhose. The continuous fabric web is formed into a gusset for the pantyhose by various devices including a motor controlled by a photoelectric device for feeding the fabric web from a spool of fabric web. A carriage alternately moves in a horizontal direction and has several web pulling jaws to pull the web into place. A tampon pincer projects from the plane of operation to hold the fabric web tight. Thereafter, a pair of co-acting blades cuts and trims the web and the pantyhose material. The pantyhose material and formed gusset are held taut until they can be sewn together.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for periodically feeding a rod-like workpiece into a severing machine for severing predetermined lengths in a cutting plane during cutting steps alternating with feeding steps. There are provided openable and closable clamping jaws for grasping the workpiece adjacent the cutting plane during each cutting step and openable and closable feed jaws for grasping the workpiece at a predetermined distance upstream of the cutting plane as viewed in the direction of feed and advancing the workpiece through the cutting plane by a distance corresponding to the desired length to be cut. The feed jaws are, subsequent to the feeding step and the closing of the clamping jaws, but prior to the completion of the cutting step, opened and moved away from the cutting plane by an extent that corresponds to the subsequent feed stroke and are thereafter closed again to grasp the workpiece anew.

Abstract: There is provided herein a method and associated apparatus for processing groups of elongated cylindrical members such as tubing or the like. The cylindrical members are arranged and transversely clamped in a substantially flat array by a reciprocating clamp which operates to advance the array of cylindrical members a predetermined distance toward operation performing apparatus whereupon a second clamp engages the members and maintains them in the generally flat array while an operation is performed upon each of the members. Additional apparatus is provided which receives the cylindrical members longitudinally from the operation performing means and delivers the array transversely to other apparatus. Hold down apparatus are also provided on this additional apparatus as well as on the operation performing device and reciprocating clamp device which are designed for rapid accurate adjustment to accommodate different diameter cylindrical members.

Abstract: A method of forming a stack of unexpanded honeycomb core sheets from a continous web of which alternate sheets in the stack have linearly spaced and transversely extending lines of adhesive on one side spaced equally between similar adhesive lines on the others of the sheets when evenly stacked, such method including applying linearly spaced and transversely extending lines of adhesive on one face of the web, cutting the web parallel to the adhesive lines with one cut being made along the linear center of a line of adhesive and the next cut being made along the linear center of the space between the adhesive lines, and then stacking the cut sheets in even edge alignment resulting in the lines of adhesive being linearly staggered on one sheet with respect to those on the adjacent sheet.

Abstract: A method of advancing rod-shaped workpieces in a feed direction in a severing machine which includes a cutting blade defining a cutting plane, openable and closable clamping jaws and openable and closable feed jaws which are displaceable in the feed direction. The method comprises the following cyclically repetitive steps: displacing the feed jaws against the feed direction from the downstream side of the cutting plane through the cutting plane to the upstream side thereof; grasping a workpiece, situated between the clamping jaws, at a location between the cutting plane and the clamping jaws; opening the clamping jaws for allowing free passage of the workpiece; pulling the workpiece by the feed jaws in the feed direction relative to the clamping jaws through the cutting plane through a distance which corresponds to the workpiece length to be severed. Upon completion of the pulling step the feed jaws are located in their entirety downstream of the cutting plane.

Abstract: A cement block splitter is disclosed.

Abstract: Panel cutting apparatus in which a supporting structure defines a vertically extending surface of engagement with a panel to be cut, a panel edge rest downwardly bounds the surface, a saw carrier is guided on the structure for horizontal movement along the surface, a saw unit may be moved vertically on the carrier in sawing engagement with a panel in the surface of engagement, and an improved gripping arrangement for gripping a vertically extending side edge portion of the panel includes a slide guided on the supporting structure in a vertically extending path, a pair of clamping jaws on the slide, and a moving device for moving respective clamping faces of the jaws toward and away from each other into and out of clamping engagement with the side edge portion of the panel.

Abstract: Apparatus for cutting a circular cake into a number of equal, segmental pieces consists of a series of superposed horizontal band cutters arranged to intersect a central axis at equal horizontal angles, the cutters being arranged over a vertically movable, cake-supporting table, which is provided with grooves, which are in alignment with the cutters so that when the table is raised, the cutters subdivide the cake into equal pieces and then sink down into the grooves in the table to permit the cake to be removed from the table by a scoop or the like.

Abstract: Clamping and cutting apparatus to be incorporated with a heading machine comprises a carriage having a shearing cutter mounted thereon and movable between a cutting position where rod-shaped work is cut to a predetermined length and a transfer position where the cut piece of work is transferred to the subsequent processing station. A clamp lever mounted on the carriage is connected via a toggle joint to a slider also mounted thereon, which slider is slidable either to a positive clamping position for causing the clamp lever to positively clamp the work against the cutter, a loose clamping position for causing the clamp lever to loosely clamp the work, or an unclamping position for causing the clamp lever to release the work.

Abstract: The length of segments cut from steel blooms that can be conveniently removed from a pass line in which a sizing gauge is positioned in close aligned relation to the pass line is increased by mounting the sizing gauge on a movable carriage. Support rollers forming a bloom receptacle are positioned on the carriage adjacent the sizing gauge and means are provided to move the carriage to each of two positions whereby either the sizing gauge or the receptacle is aligned with the bloom pass line.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for successively conveying large metal plates of different sizes to a particular position where an operation such as welding a reinforcing element thereto can be performed. The plates of different sizes may be gripped at points on the front and rear ends in line of their movement with one side edge engaged by guide rollers on a side of the conveyor track, and the distance between the line of gripping points and the edge of the apparatus is so determined as to permit conveyance of plates of a range of different sizes to be conveyed to the desired position without misplacement due to twisting.

Abstract: Several different webs of textile material or other like fabric are simultaneously unwound from their respective rolls and are fed in intermittent stepwise fashion in superposed relation to one another to the bed of a cutting press. The press head is provided with cutting knives arranged to sever from each web along its leading edge a strip portion of predetermined area which in turn is subdivided by the cutting knives into sections each comprising a pile of individual swatches. The press head is also provided with a plurality of stitching devices arranged to bind together during each cyclic operation of the press head the several swatches of each section severed from the respective layers of web material so as to form a corresponding plurality of bound swatch pads. Upon the return stroke of the press head, the bound pads are removed from the bed of the press in preparation for the next web cutting and stitching operation.