Abstract: A method and an apparatus for splitting pieces of material (1) into smaller units for further handling, whereby the piece of material (1) is split-up into preferably sector formed units which are placed on a rotatable solid or ringformed plate (10) built up from several sector shaped carrier discs (11) mounted in a pulling and guiding chain, and whereby the rotatable plate (10) upon actuation from the chain is rotated and the carrier discs (11) successively are rotated to a position substantially parallely to each other and are displaced in such parallel position to a station for further handling.

Abstract: A rotary slicer 20 for comestible products. A stationary magazine 26 supports a product upright as a rotary table 38 carries a rotary knife 40 in an orbit that passes beneath the magazine. A freely rotatable center plate 80 of the blade facilitates movement of the blade through the product. Orbiting movement of the blade is automatically stopped with the blade remote from the magazine and electrical interlocks 109, 112 prevent operation without all protective safety covers 24, 102, 106 in place. A removable sharpener 172 is attachable to the top of table and operates with the blade flush with the table top. A product follower 118 within the magazine holds the product in place and urges it downward during slicing. The follower in part extends outward between the magazine 26 and magazine cover 106 to allow manual movement and release from a latched raised position, after the magazine cover is closed.

Abstract: Apparatus for cutting stacks of flat workpieces, particularly of undershirt-shaped bags from stacked tubular film sections made of thermoplastic material and formed with side gussets and with top and bottom end seam welds. The apparatus includes a group of two punch-and-die sets, which are mounted in a transversely movable machine frame and include punches associated with drive means for moving the punches up and down, and die plates, which are fixed to the machine frame, and also includes a conveyor for intermittently feeding the stacks to and for removing them from the punches and dies. At least two punch-and-die sets and a drive motor associated with them are arranged in a row in a carriage, which is guided for reciprocation in the machine frame in a direction which is transverse to the direction of travel of the stacks. The carriage is adapted to be secured in the machine frame in two operating positions, in each of which at least one of the punch-and-die sets protrudes laterally from the machine frame.

Abstract: A carriage on the frame of a lumber edger is driven on tracks longitudinally from one limit to another. Two motors are arranged with their corresponding output shafts coaxial and facing each other. A saw blade is mounted to each shaft. The motors are mounted to laterally extending tracks on the carriage and actuators are provided for shifting the motors, and hence, the parallel saw blades toward and away from each other so that when the saws are translated longitudinally they will rip the irregular edges from a board. A chain conveyor runs through the machine frame and transports the boards to a position under the saws with the length of the boards directed longitudinally. When a rough board arrives under the saws the lines along which the saws will cut are marked on the board with parallel laser light beams. The saws are shifted laterally until the light lines are just inside of both rough edges.

Abstract: A truss component saw apparatus having multiple saws arranged in two sets for providing a variety of angular cut-offs for lumber lengths. The saws in each set are arranged for adjustment movements involving from 1 to 4 degrees of freedom of movement. An automatic control mechanism is provided for automated adjustment of the saws to predetermined positions. The degrees of freedom are linear, pivotal, and movement within an X-Y coordinate plane arranged substantially perpendicular with respect to the pivot axis established by the saws within a given set of saws. A lumber conveyor system is provided for the apparatus.

Abstract: A pair of wire feed clamps are affixed to parallel flights of a pulley-supported steel cable which is axially driven back and forth by an oscillatably rotatable cable drum whereby the wire feed clamps, which reciprocably move in opposite directions, feed a wire strand along a first path. The cable drum is driven by a drive rod reciprocably movable by an orbiting crank pin on a support member which is adjustably mounted on a motor-driven rotatable feed crank. Crank pin orbit determines drive rod stroke, cable drum position, wire feed clamp spacing and travel, and wire segment length. A locking mechanism releasably locks the support member (crank pin) in desired adjusted positions. Two laterally spaced-apart conveyor assemblies, each having conveyor clamps for receiving the wire strand, convey severed wire segments along a second path perpendicular to the first.

Abstract: A paper salvage attachment assembly of a paper cutter utilizes a horizontally reciprocable infeed conveyor assembly having an endless conveyor belt which fees bound products to a position beneath the cutting blade of a paper cutter assembly. An outfeed conveyor and stop bar assembly supports the bound product during severance of the spine from the found product. An adjustably positionable stop bar assembly is used to position the vertically reciprocable stop bar at a point downstream of the cutting blade to properly position the bound product so that only its spine will be severed. As the spine is out, the infeed conveyor assembly is retracted away from the paper cutter so that the severed spine may fall through the thus created gap and onto a scrap take away conveyor.

Abstract: A first transport mechanism which unwinds the cable from a drum and which transports the cable in the direction of its longitudinal axis is provided. A second transport mechanism comprises two belt drives, disposed successively as seen in the direction of the cable, which transport the cable perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the cable to the individual stations processing the cable ends. Upon advancing through the first transport mechanism, the cable is fed into a guide channel which is formed by a groove and by a ledge bar, where the groove is covered like two lips toward the second transport mechanism by two spring plates. Two separately controllable sliders engage the guide channel from the rear side, which sliders press the end of the cut-to-length cable section between the lip-shaped spring sheet metal sections into the belt drives. Advantageously, a guide sleeve is disposed between the first transport mechanism and a cutting provision.

Abstract: A wood cutting apparatus for cutting a workpiece from a stock of material includes a guide device for moving the stock material through the apparatus and a pair of saws located to opposite sides of the guide device for movement across the stock material to cut the workpieces to a selected configuration off the stock material. A movable workpiece holder is located at the end of the guide device which holds and supports the portion of the stock material composing the piece being cut off the stock material. An ejector ejects a severed workpiece from the workpiece holder as the workpiece holder moves.

Abstract: An apparatus and method is provided for bucksawing a log while the log is being directed in an endwise, downstream direction along a path of travel.

Abstract: A device for manufacture of pieces of cloth cut from a web e.g. a mesh tissue web or the like in the direction of the threads, and having the cut edges trimmed e.g. hemmed, and of the type where the web prior to the cutting is straigthened in pile-free positions by means of a straightening device. The object of the present invention is to provide a device with which a straightening, cutting and then a trimming of the cut edges are effected on a simple way, without the piece of cloth thereby having any possibility of becoming deformed. Another object of the invention is to provide a compact device which does not demand larger place than the known straightening devices. Furthermore according to the invention it shall also be possible to treat web which are equipped with longitudinal side seams with the device.

Abstract: A slicing machine with a carriage for the goods to be sliced, a blade against which the goods are drawn to form a slice, a mechanism for carrying away the slices and a blade-cleaning member which is disposed along the rear of the blade and serves to deflect the slicing away from the latter toward the slide conveyor. Between the slice conveyor and the latter member, a plurality of gripper bands are provided to transfer the slices to the conveyor, the gripper band passing around rollers in recesses of the blade cleaning member.

Abstract: Apparatus for longitudinally and transversely trimming articles moldingly formed on plastic sheet which is brought by means of a pair of clamp chains between longitudinally movable pointed tip knives and longitudinally extended holder members as well as transversely movable pointed tip knives and transversely extended holder members respectively held in retracted position and then trimmed by moving said knives and holder members to forwarded position and by moving said knives. Trimmed articles fall down by gravity and the waste portion is kept in one piece and brought out by said clamp chains to be collected.

Abstract: Apparatus for cutting sheets of plate glass, particularly for making automobile windows, according to a profile programmed in a digital control unit the control output of which is coupled to electrohydraulic amplifiers, each of which controls the movements of a hydrodynamic cylinder moving on a fixed piston rod. A cutting head is fixed to one of the cylinders, while a table to bring the sheet of glass to be cut into contact with the cutting head is fixed to the other cylinder. The two cylinders move in perpendicular directions, and their coordinated movements cause the glass to be cut in a programmed profile. A belt conveyor is incorporated in the machine to carry the glass to the table, and may assume a raised position for transport and a lowered position at rest (FIG. 1).

Abstract: A shear discharge conveying system including a plurality of individual conveying belt modules connectd to a main frame for easy repair and replacement. Impact bar assemblies are spaced between the modules to prevent sheared material from impacting directly on the belts. Rows of vertically extending and retracting gauging supports are adjustable to match the cut size, and tension links connected between the rows prevent the material from nosing down between supports. A scrap gripping and conveying mechanism moves strips of scrap transversely to the conveying direction directly behind the shear before the strips can contact and foul the conveyor. The main frame is mounted on air pads so a single operator can move the entire system to and from the shear.

Abstract: Scrap material cut by a shear is gripped by a vertically and transversely movable scrap-gripping and conveying mechanism which feeds the strip generally parallel to the back side of the shear into a pinch roll drive. The scrap is then fed into a slot of a scroll spindle. The spindle is rotated, and the scrap wraps around the spindle into a compact cylindrical package. Once the scrap is entirely rolled on the spindle, the spindle is retracted by a cylinder, and the scrap is pushed off the end of the spindle and falls into a storage area.

Abstract: An elongated frame supports a pair of rails for a wheeled log carriage. A winch drum is mounted on the frame between the ends of the latter and drives a cable reeved through opposite end pulleys for moving the carriage in feed and return movements. Multiple pulley V-belt assemblies are provided in the drive unit for the carriage and are operated by a manual lever which in one direction actuates feed movement of the carriage and releases return drive movement and in the other direction of the lever releases the drive for the feed movement and actuates the drive for the return movement. Such actuation and release of the multiple pulley V-belt assemblies is controlled by rocker arm clutches controlled by the manual lever. A log ramp is utilized with the mechanism and has a pull cable powered from the main drive mechanism of the sawmill under control of an operator's lever.

Abstract: Apparatus is provided for repeatedly cutting segments from a strand of wire or cable and for conveying them to work stations so that either or both ends can be processed to provide a partly or fully finished wire lead or cord.

Abstract: A high speed slitter for slitting large sheets (3) of thin metal into rectangular strips has pairs of rollers (10, 10') mounted on parallel, driven shafts (12, 13). Each roller has a hub (98, 98') carrying a cutter ring (100, 100') with a circular cutting edge (112). A draw ring (92, 92'), cooperating with the opposite cutting ring (100', 100) to draw the sheet between the rollers, consists of a resilient ring (94, 94'), gripping the hub but capable of slipping around it when subjected to sufficient appropriate force, and a steel tire (96, 96'), carried only by the resilient ring and engaging the sheet. The tire can be deflected radially by virtue of the resilient ring.

Abstract: A cutter, such as a wire cutting element is moved in a D-shaped path which includes a substantially straight downward path to cut a slice off of the end of an advancing log of dough, such as cookie dough. The cutter returns with a curvilinear motion including a horizontally forward motion beginning at the bottom of the downward motion to disengage the cutter from the advancing log and to move the cutter sufficiently forward to ensure that the cutter does not engage the advancing end of the log during upward movement. At the end of the upward movement the cutter returns with rearward horizontal movement to the path of downward movement. The severed slice is discharged with the aid of air jets from the end of a conveyor where it drops onto a second conveyor for advancement to subsequent processing stations such as an oven.

Abstract: Apparatus for culling cant ends from a cant including a first conveyor upon which the cant ends are formed and a second conveyor which forms a gap with the first conveyor when the cant ends are positioned for transfer therebetween so that the cant ends will fall through the gap.

Abstract: Apparatus for trimming and slicing stem-type vegetables such as broccoli and the like. The apparatus is specifically adapted to slice the stem-type vegetable stalk into longitudinal sections and includes a pair of mutually opposed resilient close spaced surfaces on opposite sides of a first plane. Each of the surfaces is divided into two closely spaced parts on opposite sides of the second plane normal to the first plane. The resilient surface parts may comprise polyurethane foam surfaces on conveyor belts or conveyor pulleys which are moved synchronously with respect to each other in order to carry the vegetable stalk along a given path. A knife is mounted in the path of movement of the vegetable stalk with its knife edge forming its leading edge with respect to the vegetable stalk in order to slice it longitudinally. The knife may have two or more blades and the vegetable stalk is preferably gripped by the resilient surfaces throughout its length during the cutting process.

Abstract: Apparatus for subdividing a paper web into a series of discrete sheets and for transporting the sheets to a processing station has a cross cutter whose knife holders can be driven at several speeds, and a sheet intercepting device downstream of the nip of the holders. The position of the entire intercepting device is changed in automatic response to changes in the speed of the knife holders to ensure that the inlet of the intercepting device can receive the leaders of successive sheets, even though the direction of advancement of such leaders is likely to change, e.g., in response to more or less pronounced curling, as a result of acceleration or deceleration of the knife holders and as a function of the thickness and/or composition of the web.

Abstract: A machine for portioning meat, comprising a rotatable meat containing drum which moves the meat in a circular path intersecting the cutting flight of a bandsaw, the meat sliding around on a table on to a depth stop in the form of a flush conveyor which assists transport of the meat through the cutting station and to a downstream separating station at which a deflector engages the cut slice of meat below the level of the bandsaw to push said cut slice out from under the main joint, so that the said slice is further transported by the conveyor to an outlet while the main joint is retained by the drum and drops down back on to the table.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: An apparatus for feeding elastomeric strips used to form an annular tread reinforcing structure of a vehicle pneumatic tire provided with reinforcing metal cords to a drum which forms the strips into the annular reinforcing structure is disclosed. The apparatus comprises an endless belt looped about spaced pulleys which transfers cut lengths of an elastomeric strip for making an annular tread reinforcing structure from bobbins of the strip to a drum which shapes an annular tread reinforcing member therefrom. The cut lengths of elastomeric strip are maintained in the desired position on the belt and drum by the action of two separate magnetic fields. One of the magnets is stationary and is placed under the belt. The other magnet is adjacent to the belt pulley nearest the drum. Apparatus is provided for laying automatically the two ends of the elastomeric strip on the belt.

Abstract: A machine for machining workpieces, such as panels, planks, and sections. The machine includes a conveyor for conveying workpieces in an infeed direction past a plurality of operating stations fixed in position along a conveying line. A carriage cooperates with the conveyor to support and feed the workpieces. The carriage is coupled with the conveyor for conjoint movement in the feeding direction of the workpieces. The carriage cooperates with other members to form articulated quadrilateral that supports a bar in such manner that the angle formed between the axis of the bar and the conveying line is adjustable. The bar, together with the conveyor, provides support for workpieces being machined.

Abstract: An apparatus for engaging and transporting discrete sheets downstream of a severing station at which a cross-cutter severs a running paper web has a catcher assembly with an upper and a lower conveyor unit. The conveyor units define an elongated path for the transport of sheets therebetween. The catcher assembly is adjustable, in its entirety, with reference to the severing station, and each conveyor unit is adjustable relative to the other conveyor unit. The rearmost portion of the upper conveyor unit is adjustable toward and away from the adjacent portion of the lower conveyor unit.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for cutting bread is disclosed. The apparatus includes a conveyor which conveys bread through a positioner to a circular, vertically disposed, rotatably mounted cutting blade. The positioner positions the bread with respect to the cutting blade to control the size and configuration of the pieces of bread cut by the cutting blade. A displacement member separates the upper portions of the cut pieces of bread, thus causing the pieces to separate and drop downwardly with the cut face of each piece of bread facing upwardly.

Abstract: A mechanism for die-cutting a laminated strip includes a roll stand having an annular carrier band mounted for rotation about a vertical axis. A plurality of roll mounting assemblies are mounted for discharging strip material onto the carrier band to form a laminated strip. Each roll mounting assembly includes a pivotally mounted roll support which includes a frictional carrier so that the weight of the roll produces frictional forces for pivoting the roll into engagement with the carrier band. A feed assembly transports the laminated strip from the carrier band to a horizontally oriented conveyor belt disposed below a die-cutter driven for vertical reciprocatory movement by a first eccentrically mounted crank arm. The conveyor belt pulleys are disposed on a carrier which is mounted for horizontal reciprocating movement below the die-cutter. The connecting rod is coupled to the carrier reciprocating assembly and to a second eccentric mounted on the first eccentric.

Abstract: A water table and submersible conveyor system for use with an in-line material handling system, particularly a system in which the work is processed by burning, is disclosed. The water table includes opposing end walls whose top portions each define a substantially rectangular opening to accommodate a conveyor carrying a workpiece and end doors for sealing the openings having vertical slots with resilient seals mounted therein for engaging and effecting a watertight closure about sealable links of the conveyor. The water level in the water table can be raised to submerge and protect the conveyor beneath the workpiece during the burning operation.

Abstract: A one man operable, mobile, field usable log cutting device is provided for quickly and easily loading, handling and transversely cutting of heavy logs to yield finished log segments or discs. The device includes a rotatable, powered saw blade along with an elevated, shiftable, log support for manually moving a supported log into a saw blade for cutting purposes. A manually operable, pivotal, knee-action log advancer is also provided for selective lifting and axial shifting of a log towards a limit stop for determining disc thickness. As disc-like log segments are successively cut, they fall by gravity towards an underlying conveyor for transporting the segments away from the device; conveyor damage from falling segments is prevented through use of a pivotal, spring cushioned, basket-like log segment catcher disposed below the saw blade which engages the falling log segments, turns the same and safely deposits the segments onto the conveyor.

Abstract: A block of material such as a clay is fed onto a support comprising spaced apart supports, and a cutting frame, having tensioned cutting wires, is moved in a substantially vertical plane through the block and between the supports so that the cutting wires cut completely through the block without interruption of the cutting motion. The cutting wires lie in a plane extending at an acute angle to the plane of feed of the block. The cut block is then removed from the support. Feeding of the block onto the support and removal of the cut block from the supports occurs in a single plane and are effected substantially simultaneously by means of a pushing device. The method and apparatus of this invention is particularly applicable to the cutting of individual clay batches into a number of individual brick mouldings. An advantage of a preferred embodiment of this invention is that cut portions can be produced without marking of the cutting surfaces and/or the cutting edges of the cut portions.

Abstract: Apparatus for use with a food slicer comprising a conveyor for location adjacent to the said slicer and adapted to receive slices of food as they are cut by the slicer; a pump for generating hydraulic pressure, a motor driven by said hydraulic pressure; passageways between said pump and said motor; means for drivingly connecting said motor to said conveyor; a flow limiting valve in the passageway between the pump and the motor for limiting the speed at which the said motor drives said conveyor; and means for periodically increasing the fluid flow to the motor temporarily to accelerate said motor.

Abstract: An improved method and apparatus for efficiently and at an improved rate cutting an extruded clay column, strand or strip, or a portion thereof, into individual brick mouldings. A conveyor brings the uncut strip portion into a predetermined position beneath a cutting device and by causing relative vertical movement between the conveyor and a lifting table the uncut portion is transferred to the lifting table, itself comprised of a plurality of separate supports spaced apart both transversely of and in the direction of travel defined by the conveyor. While supported by the lifting table, the clay strip is cut by a plurality of cutting wires secured under tension in a frame which is lowered with respect to the table so that the wires pass through the clay. Thereafter the frame is raised to its starting position and the cut mouldings redeposited on the conveyor by again causing relative vertical movement between the conveyor and table.

Abstract: Apparatus for receiving a strip of flexible bags with capped spouts at longitudinally spaced intervals which are to be separated at transverse joints and then fed individually to a point of use. It includes draw rolls for drawing the strip horizontally into cooperation with a separator, means for vertically reciprocating the separator to pass through the strip and separate the leading bag therefrom, a guide channel for receiving the spout of each separated bag, and a feeding element for engaging the spout on each successive bag and arranging the spouts in predetermined spaced relationship relative to previously inserted spouts and with the leading bag in a selected position for its spout to be engaged by bag-withdrawing means.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for scoring block size glass sheets into shapes for further fabricating into automotive windshields, side lights and the like. The apparatus includes a continuously operating conveyor for advancing the block size glass sheets to and from a scoring station, including a sheet capturing mechanism whereat a sheet is captured and held in a predetermined position on an operating roll conveyor beneath a positionable scoring unit which produces at least one score line on the glass sheet along a predetermined path. Thus the scored sheet, when released, is quickly conveyed away from the scoring station.

Abstract: The device for feeding filter plugs to a demand drum comprises, in combination, a gravity-feed hopper containing a supply of multiple length filter rods, the hopper being closed, in correspondence of its bottom end, by a rotating fluted drum wherein each flute of the drum is capable of housing a filter rod. The filter rods, thus removed from the hopper, are cut into three filter plugs, which are delivered, axially aligned, onto a horizontal conveyor belt subdivided into three tracks. As a continuation of the conveyor belt there is provided a horizontal fixed sliding surface onto which the articles slide in three rows, each leading article of the three rows being pushed by the subsequent ones, until the leading article reaches an abutment member, where it is firmly positioned. Also the sliding surface is subdivided into three tracks.

Abstract: Opposed parallel supporting rollers of a log receiving and turning assembly are rotated in order to rotate the log received thereon. The rollers are carried by a frame which is lifted or lowered, as desired, and a bar between the rollers is tiltable so as to lift selectively one end of the log or the other. By such an arrangement, the log is oriented so that a pair of dogs engage the log from opposite ends. These dogs are carried by an overhead carriage assemblies which ride on tracks and are movable with respect to each other by means of a hydraulic cylinder. One dog is rotatable by a motor through 90.degree. so as to orient the log. The carriage assemblies are movable in a longitudinal direction so that a pair of saws, driven by motors, will simultaneously cut the logs on opposite sides so as to deposit the boards, when cut from the log, on respective conveyors which carry the boards longitudinally away from the saws. The saws are adjustable laterally for different widths of log.

Abstract: An upright rectangular frame longitudinally journals an axle supporting a plurality of spaced-apart circular saws. The axle is V-belt driven by an engine at one end of the frame. A feed conveyor, disposed laterally of the frame, moves logs deposited thereon toward the saws in response to a manually operated lever moving an idler pulley and tightening a flat belt entrained around a feed conveyor driving pulley and frictionally engaging a pulley on the axle. The sawed logs are moved out of the frame by a belt conveyor.

Abstract: Apparatus for delivering ties after unmolding from a first location to a trimming station which includes a conveyor operative between the first location and the trimming station, a gantry having a pair of arms for grasping the ends of the tie, lifting the tie from the first location, rotating the tie and delivering it to said conveyor.

Abstract: An in-line material handling system for transporting work from one processing station to another, particularly to a station where the work is processed by burning, includes a pair of conveyor means aligned end-to-end. The first conveyor means comprises a loading conveyor for moving the work to the burning station and the second conveyor means comprises a supporting and off-loading conveyor for supporting the work during burning and for discharging it from the burning station. The second or supporting conveyor means may be integrally incorporated in a water table at the burning station to collect dross and swarf from the burning operation.

Abstract: A foraminous upperwardly inclined conveyor belt, which normally carries slices of vegetable, such as potatoes from the washer to the cooker is straddled by a spiked roller on the bottom side and a grooved roller on the other for progressively puncturing the vegetable while carried on the conveyor.

Abstract: A web severing device which includes a web transport means and a web lifting means so that a transported web is lifted away from the surface of the transport means for severing by a cutting means, thus, preventing damage which would occur on contact between the transport means and the cutting means.

Abstract: An apparatus for deflashing a plastic article is disclosed. In operation, an operator places the article having flash in a nest which positions the article so that the flash is in a horizontal plane. A powered shuttle assembly picks the article up from the nest and places it upon an anvil. The anvil has striking edges which follow the line of juncture between the article and the flash. A punch apparatus is lowered onto the article and strikes the flash at the line of juncture disjoining the flash from the article. The power shuttle then removes the article without the flash to a discharge point. Optionally, at the discharge point, there may be provided an orientation assembly wich orients the deflashed article so that it may be placed upon a conveyor belt which carries the article to a collection point.

Abstract: A revolving cross cutter for material in web form comprises two driven knife drums, a transfer table following same in the line of transport of the web and a transport mechanism following the transfer table. The transfer table is mounted for yielding movement in the line of transporting comprising two vertical parallel flat leaf springs which are adjustably biased.

Abstract: A dispenser for sheets of web material, such as paper towels, from a supply roll, including a housing, means for holding a supply roll of the web material, and means for separating a sheet of the web from the supply roll operable in response to a user pulling the sheet from the housing and arranged to present at least a portion of the leading edge of the web ready for a user to seize for the dispensing of a further sheet as a direct result of the user pulling the previous sheet from the dispenser.

Abstract: A machine is provided by the present invention for the improved handling, transfer, cutting and stacking of distinct sheets of diaphanous plastic material from a continuous roll or web, each separate sheet being perforated with an expansible slit pattern for packaging articles of produce requiring ventilation.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a glass fiber chopped strand mat is disclosed, in which the dropping direction of chopped strands is detected at all times, so that whenever the dropping direction is varied, immediately the relative position of an axis of a feed roller and an axis of a cutter roller with respect to a stationary structure is displaced so as to correct the dropping direction thereby to uniformly accumulate the chopped strands on a conveyer means.