Abstract: A reclaim system for plastic bottles whereby the bottles are held between moving belts and the contaminated portion sawed from the uncontaminated portion, thereby permitting suitable reclaim of the respective parts. The method of operation is also shown.

Abstract: A damaged area of a fabric is repaired by removing the damaged area from the fabric while folded across the damaged site, and thereafter bonding a patch and underlying thermoplastic impregnated pad to each other and to the fabric with the application of heat.

Abstract: A band-removing apparatus for taking off a band wound about a paper sheet bundle. One end portion of a paper sheet bundle brought to a band-removing section by transport means is clamped in a vertical direction by a pair of clamping members, thereby causing the paper sheet bundle to be bent downward. Part of a band is stretched over the concave portion of the bent paper sheet bundle in the form of a chord. A hooking member catches said chord portion of the band. When the hooking member holding said chord portion of the band is rotated crosswise of the transport passage, then the band is pulled off from the paper sheet bundle. The removed band is let to fall into a receptacle disposed on one lateral side of the transport passage.

Abstract: A strip of plastic material is cut by clamping the strip and then moving a cutting blade from a retracted position to a first position in cutting engagement with the strip. Simultaneously a supporting blade in overlapping relation with the cutting blade is moved to the first position for lifting the strip. The movement of the supporting blade stops at the first position and the cutting blade movement is continued through the strip. The cutting surface of the cutting blade is recessed adjacent the cutting edge so that upon movement of the cutting blade the contact with the strip is minimized to prevent the formation of burrs on the severed ends of the strip. After the strip is severed the cutting blade is retracted to the first position. From the first position, the cutting blade and supporting blade are moved to a fully retracted position and the strip unclamped so that the severed portion of the strip can be removed and the remaining portion of the strip moved into position for the next cut.

Abstract: The gap cut by a saw blade into a work piece is kept open behind the saw blade by work piece engaging clamping jaw portions on each side of the blade. For this purpose, each clamping jaw includes, in addition to the clamping pressure applying power drive, a further power drive which permits moving the respective work piece engaging clamping jaw portion independently of the clamping pressure applying power drive and in a direction extending substantially perpendicularly to the direction of movement of the clamping pressure applying power drive.

Abstract: An apparatus for separating first and second lead wires of an electrical component and cutting one of the lead wires to a predetermined length includes a separator blade having a first shearing edge thereon. The separator blade is attached to a carrier assembly for moving the separator blade between the first and second lead wires to separate the lead wires. A length adjustment assembly is operably associated with the separator blade for moving the electrical component relative to the separator blade to a relative position such that the first shearing edge of the separator blade is adjacent a point at which the one lead wire is to be cut. A cutter assembly is operably associated with the separator blade and has a second shearing edge thereon.

Abstract: A predetermined volume of the face part of a segment of boneless fresh whole-muscle meat (e.g. strip loin, tenderloin, top sirloin butt, or ribeye roll) is positioned in engagement with a stop plate and constrained in a first shaping clamp of given cross-sectional configuration and thickness, and an additional part of the meat segment is constrained in a second shaping clamp of approximately the same cross-sectional configuration, with both shaping clamps solidly filled; cutting the meat segment between the two shaping clamps forms a steak or other meat portion of closely controlled volume and weight.

Abstract: An improved apparatus for producing and dispensing place mats from a roll of sheet material including curved guide member cooperating with said apparatus to receive said place mats and to curl upwardly the side edge portions thereof permitting said place mat to extend outwardly from said apparatus in cantilever fashion to facilitate handling of said place mat as by positioning it on a tray or the like. When the place mat is removed, the apparatus automatically produces another one extending out of the apparatus for easy handling.

Abstract: A method and device for cutting out pieces of the desired shape having a cavity with a bottom wall at different levels from a block of plastic foam material. The block of foam material is compressed between a first plate having a relief form member corresponding in shape to the desired cavity and a die having an aperture of the desired contour. The part of the compressed block protruding through the aperture is compressed by the back form member corresponding to the different levels of the cavity and provided on a second plate on the other side of the die remote from the first plate. A straight edge cutting blade cuts the block flush with the die between the die and the second plate to obtain the piece of desired shape.

Abstract: Apparatus for slitting an elongated bag enclosing an article. The apparatus includes a bag support and a mechanism for engaging a portion of the bag wall adjacent the middle of the bag and pulling the engaged wall portion in a direction transverse to the axis of the bag so that the engaged wall portion extends in such transverse direction away from the article enclosed in the bag. The apparatus includes a pair of blades and mechanism for forcing the blades through the wall of the bag between the engaged wall portion and the article to puncture the bag. The blade movement mechanism is arranged to move the blades in opposite directions towards the end of the bag after the blades have so punctured the bag wall to slit the wall of the bag longitudinally.

Abstract: A sleeve having a tapered outer surface is shrink or interference fitted over the outer surface of a die blank in which is formed a central bore, a larger diameter bore and a transition bore therebetween. The diametrical interference between the sleeve and the die blank is effective in producing an elastic deformation of the smaller diameter bore causing it to assume a conical shape. The die blank and sleeve are restrained within a casing and the inner surface of the die is formed by electrical discharge machining, electrical chemical machining or by other known methods. The die casing and sleeve are removed from the die, allowing the release of the stored strain energy of deformation which causes the smaller bore of the die to assume a conical shape tapering radially outwardly from its inner extremity. The sharp corner that results at the innermost end of the smaller bore is removed by lapping a straight-sided tool through the central opening of the die.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for cutting elastomeric material into volumetric elastomer samples is disclosed. These volumetric samples may be reproduced at identical mass for precision testing purposes. The volumetric samples are reproducible for such precision purposes by the use of a volumetric adjustment mechanism which determines the volume of the cavity into which elastomeric material is compressed before cutting. The apparatus also has a moving cutting mechanism with a contoured cutting area, which in combination with the volumetric adjustment apparatus, removes deleterious air bubbles and other deformities prior to cutting the elastomeric material. The volumetric adjustment apparatus is housed within a die apparatus, which has a damping mechanism to permit complete manipulation of the elastomer prior to cutting the elastomer into the volumetric plug. After the cutting of the plug has occurred, the ejection apparatus pushes the volumetric plug from the cavity whereupon another cycle is begun.

Abstract: A corrugated thin metal strip is advanced through a cut-off mechanism having a movable upper blade and a lower stationary blade. A curtain of air is directed downwardly against the tip of the corrugated strip to momentarily arrest its movement with a return bend between a pair of adjacent convolutions of the strip centered over the stationary blade. The upper blade descends and shears the strip transversely along a return bend.

Abstract: A cutter blade receiving member having a slit therein for cooperating with the cutter device in a printer. The cutter blade receiving member is reduced in thickness in a portion above the slit so as to form a step on the side of the receiving member where the cutter blade of the cutter device enters the slit.

Abstract: First and second rotary turrets are connected by a drive belt or chain which carries cups to carry and support the olives while they are being pitted and stuffed. Pitting takes place as the belt passes around one of the turrets and stuffing takes place while the belt passes around the other turret.A folded stuffing strip is fed radially of the stuffing turret and knives carried by the stuffing turret move transversely of the strip to cut off stuffing pieces and carry them away in vertical, stuffing alignment with the cups. A method for obtaining individual stuffing pieces from a continuous strip is provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for sawing logs having a curved longitudinal length to obtain maximum recovery of sawed planks therefrom. There are provided several sawing stations for handling the curved log including edge sawing, heart split sawing along the curved center line of the log and perpendicular to the edge sawed surfaces to produce two sections having curved center cut surfaces, and dividing sawing each section parallel to the center cut surface.

Abstract: A scrap shearing machine of the kind comprising an upper knife support which has an upper knife fixed to it and is vertically movable in a frame, a stationary lower knife and optionally also a vertically movable tamper, which is mounted immediately upstream of the cutting plane of the shearing machine, is provided with a bending plunger which acts on the scrap downstream of the cutting plane of the shearing machine. The bending plunger is movable in the frame in advance of the upper knife so that it comes into contact with the scrap before the upper knife comes into contact with the scrap. Preferably the bending plunger is fixed to an underface of the upper knife support and is inclined across the machine substantially parallel to the cutting edge of the upper knife.

Abstract: A watch case containing at least one opening, in combination with means for sealing said opening comprising a plate of circular material containing on one surface thereof a resilient disc shaped material with an edge having a concave outward shape. In a preferred embodiment the plate compresses a stainless disc and the resilient material comprises neoprene rubber.

Abstract: A feeding and cutting device in which a continuous web of sheet material provided with spaced transverse central slits is step advanced by feeding means along a web path to cutting means comprising a movable blade and a stationary blade arranged on opposite sides of said web path on a fixed cutting plane substantially at right angles to said web path, said feeding means advancing the web so that, at the end of each advancing step, one slit is located a short distance downstream from said cutting plane; reciprocating pushing means being operable, at the end of each advancing step, in a direction towards said stationary blade and parallel to said cutting plane to engage the web downstream from said one slit so as to depress the leading edge thereof; and return feeding means being operable, in a direction opposite to said feeding means and before operation of said movable blade, to displace said web backwards until said depressed leading edge engages a lateral downstream edge of said stationary blade.

Abstract: A ticket dispensing head for delivering individual tickets from a string of tickets connected by laterally extending lines of ticket material weakness in which tickets are advanced along a generally linear path past a breaker blade toward a limit switch adjustably positioned in the path of movement of the tickets beyond the breaker blade by a distance slightly greater than the length of a ticket with actuation of the switch interrupting the ticket drive to position the line of weakness connecting the leading ticket to the next ticket just beyond the blade breaker edge to permit a folder to fold the ticket along the so positioned line over the blade breaker edge for severing of the first ticket precisely along said positioned line upon subsequent actuation of the breaker blade to move along a path generally parallel to the ticket path. The position of the switch is adjusted to accommodate tickets of different size.

Abstract: A saw, especially a circular metal saw, is equipped with a device for keeping open the gap cut by the saw blade. For this purpose two chucking members are arranged symmetrically to the right and left of the saw blade on one side of the workpiece and an abutment member is arranged on the opposite side of the workpiece and opposite the saw blade. Power drive means press the chucking members against the workpiece. The workpiece engaging elements of the chucking members may be pointed ridges or conical tips.

Abstract: A method and a device for recovering the various materials of a composite body having a restricted circumference as compared with its length, for example, cables; the object of the invention is to provide a possibility of recovering separately the constituents, particularly the metals, so that these metals maintain a high degree of purity and their original properties; the method is characterized by cutting the composite body along at least one transverse plane and at least one longitudinal plane and by subsequently sorting out the portions of materials reduced in size and separated from one another by the cutting operation; the device is characterized by a clipping apparatus for shortening the body into portions, by a splitting apparatus for cutting through each shortened portion at least along the longitudinal plane and by a sorting system, in which a degreasing section may be provided between the clipping section and the sorting section.

Abstract: A curved slot is formed between an internal cavity of an airfoil and the trailing edge thereof by temporarily deflecting the airfoil trailing edge portion toward the suction side thereof, forming a straight slot in the trailing edge portion while it is in the deflected position, and releasing the deflecting pressure to allow the trailing edge portion to spring back into an unstressed condition so as to thereby curve the slot within the trailing edge portion. Further curvatures may be effected by subsequent reformation of the trailing edge portion toward the pressure side of the airfoil.

Abstract: An improved label feed comprising a first roller means for feeding an elongated parent strip of label material into the labeling apparatus, guide means in advance of the first roller means, cuttng means in the form of a rotary blade and an oscillating stationary blade adjacent the guide means for severing individual labels from the parent strip, and second roller means in advance of the cutting means for feeding the label strips onto a vacuum drum or the like for application to containers. A leaf spring is disposed above the parent strip adjacent the stationary blade and oscillates therewith. The guide means has air jets for directing streams of air against the parent strip before it is fed into the cutting means, to insure adequate feeding of limp label material.

Abstract: A ticket dispenser automatically advances a continuous web of lottery tickets, one ticket length, halts the advance, and severs the end most ticket to drop into a delivery chute upon actuation. The dispenser is capable of handling ticket webs which are difficult to tear or have poor perforations, by pre-breaking the web along its transverse lines of perforation, in opposite angular directions by means of a set of three cylindrical rolls, and by moving a breaker bar upwardly into a slot between an inclined bed plate and a horizontal bed plate to slice each successive, prebroken perforated line. The printed indicia can thus be on the upper surface of the web and the tickets delivered face-up.

Abstract: Automotive trim parts in sheet form with thinned marginal and inner areas, fabricated by a special skiving and assembling system that utilizes a combined skiving and assembly fixture.

Abstract: This invention relates to a novel apparatus for cutting mats of compressible insulation materials arranged in stacks into small intricately shaped pieces which comprises an elevatable platform which raises the stack and compresses same against the undersurface of a rigid pattern supported in spaced relation beneath an overhead framework on uprights which are rotatable and include an offset portion sized and positioned to receive that part of the fabric cutter overhanging the axis of upright rotation regardless of the position of the cutter adjacent the edge of the pattern.

Abstract: A portable paper hole punch and hole reinforcement tape applicator comprising a housing including operating mechanism for feeding a pressure sensitive tape over a sheet of paper. Punch means and a pressure pad are provided for punching a hole through the tape and paper and applying pressure to seal or bond the tape to the paper. Tape feed means are provided and include means for imparting a transverse curl to the tape so that the latter is stiffened lengthwise to prevent bunching or jamming during the hole punching operation.The surfaces of all parts of the device contacted by the adhesive side of the tape are coated with "Teflon" or other suitable material, so that the tape will not adhere thereto as it is moved thereover.

Abstract: Filter rod portions in the flutes of a rotating drum are severed by a rotary disk-shaped knife to yield shorter sections which are used for the making of filter cigarettes. During severing, the filter rod portions are flexed by stationary components to produce tensional stresses in those parts of filter rod portions which move into the range of the knife. This enables the knife to make a clean cut and to become immediately separated from the shorter sections. The stationary components may include annular members which urge the outer parts of successive filter rod portions against sloping portions of bottom surfaces of the respective flutes. If the depth of the flutes is constant, the components further include stationary cams which extend into circumferential grooves of the drum and lift the central parts of successive filter rod portions out of the adjacent portions of the flutes during travel past the knife.

Abstract: An endless elastic band is severed from a tube of resilient material while the interior of the resultant band is being engaged by tensioning fingers which can be manipulated to deliver the band in at least partially expanded condition.

Abstract: A fixture for use in preparing replacement O-rings from cord material, such as buna-N. The fixture automatically provides mating ends which when spliced together preclude undue stress along the plane of splicing.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating continuous unexpanded structural honeycomb material formed of permanently creasable material comprises rollers for drawing the material in the expansion direction whilst compressing it perpendicularly thereto so that it adopts a second unexpanded state. A guide receives the advancing material and permits slight re-expansion and a double acting severing device, e.g. a circular blade driven by a double-acting ram in forward and return strokes, severs the slightly re-expanded material to form cut lengths. The severing device may be located at the position of a guide of compact form, or at the outlet end of a guide in the form of a channel having at least one resilient wall. A receiving surface, formed in part by a conveyor belt may be provided to receive the cut lengths and allow them to expand. Guides for the expanded material may be arranged to discharge the expanded material from the receiving surface.

Abstract: Matted fibrous material is fed between a rotatable shaft having a chopping blade mounted thereon and a rubber-covered back-up roll cooperable with the blade. Clutch and brake means enable the blade shaft to be rotated intermittently through one turn to chop off a selected length of material. An upper portion of the back-up roll is above the plane of support of feed and discharge conveyors on opposite sides of the back-up roll, and a cam on the blade shaft compresses the material before it is chopped by the blade.

Abstract: An improved self-containable disposable diaper wherein a portion of the disposal pouch is slit so as to form integral, oppositely extending wings, the wings preferably having means thereon for completing the attachment of the diaper to an infant. A method is provided for forming the improved diaper featuring folding, slitting and refolding the portion thereof which is to define the pouch and wings.

Abstract: This disclosure is directed to a piped opening for use in a garment and an apparatus for making the opening. The piped opening comprises corresponding die-cut slits or cuts formed in the front and facing portion of a garment with the flap or flaps defined thereby being reversely folded inwardly of the respective front and facing portions to define a corresponding opening therein. An edging patch having a complementary slit or cut and reversely folded patch flaps is secured to one of the portions with the patch flaps positioned contiguous to corresponding flaps of the adjacent portion to form a partially piped opening. The front and facing portions are then reversely folded to dispose the edging patch therebetween with the respective openings defined in each, disposed in coaxial alignment. The front and facing portions are then secured.The apparatus for locating and forming an opening in a garment, e.g.