Abstract: A tab (22) at the edge of a panel (10) may be advantageously sheared by transporting the panel into an in-line shear (30). As the panel is transported into the shear, an adjustable rail (52) engages the tab (22) to guide the panel to maintain its orientation. The rail (52) is adjusted after the tab (22) has been sheared to now engage the panel (10) along its edge formed by the removal of the tab. In this way, the rail (52) can guide the panel upon transport from the shear.

Abstract: A method for sequencing the exiting of a cut tape segment from a tape roll feeding, cutting and ejecting apparatus of a mailing machine having a tape roll drive and cut tape segment ejection device and in which a cut tape segment from the tape roll is ejected in an opposite direction from the feeding direction of the feeding of tape of the tape roll drive as it feeds the tape for printing includes the steps of feeding the tape in the feeding direction for a first predetermined time period for extending a predetermined length of tape, further feeding the tape in the feeding direction to create a trail edge margin to assure that the tape is not cut shorter than a minimum length, printing on the tape; then feeding the tape in the opposite direction until one of a first and second conditions occurs, the first condition being the sensing of a leading edge of the tape by a sensor and the second condition being feeding the tape in the opposite direction beyond a second predetermined time period, then at times when t

Abstract: Method and apparatus for dividing wire coils into two wire coils of equal weight or any different weights. A non-bound, loose wire coil is placed on a double screw rod on which two screws of reverse directions of thread are facing in opposite directions at the central turning point of the rod, and the screw rod is rotated to have the screws caused movement of the parts of the wire coil thereon in splitting directions so as to divide the wire coil into two parts at the turning point. The two coil parts thus formed are separated by cutting wire and separately bound to form two wire coils.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming a spread of generally thin, pliable material from a roll thereof onto a table includes a cradle for holding the roll of the material which is selectively operable to rotate the roll of material for feeding a web of material generally forwardly from the roll. An endless conveyor including a series of flights spaced at intervals therealong with openings between the flights is driven for forward travel, and the web from the roll of the material is received on and carried forward by a flight in the upper reach of the conveyor. A knife is operable to cut the web to separate a first sheet of material from the roll of material. The first sheet of material is thereafter held from forward movement with the supporting flight by grippers selectively operable for gripping the first sheet of material on the supporting flight in the upper reach of the conveyor. Thus, the supporting flight slides out from under the first sheet of material with the first sheet falling onto the table.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for slitting a stack of folded corrugated paperboard boxes utilizes a thin slitting blade mounted for continuous movement through a slitting station and defining a vertical slitting plane. A stack supporting table straddles the slitting blade to support a stack of boxes in a stand-by position above the blade. Adjustable upstream and downstream squaring devices are operative to square and center the stack in the cutting plane and a vertically reciprocable ram operates to move the stack and the supporting table downwardly past the blade against a table biasing force to slit the stack into two half-size stacks. The squaring device is operable to re-square the slit half-size stacks prior to conveyance out of the slitting station. The slitting run of the continuous blade operates in a rigid blade holder which is adjustable to compensate for blade wear and to maintain the cutting edge of the blade in a fixed plane.

Abstract: A photographic film cassette manufacturing apparatus, has a perforator for providing a long film with perforations and a cutter for cutting the long film into individual filmstrips to be contained in the film cassette driven synchronously with transport of the long film. A magnetic recording head for recording data on a magnetic recording layer of the long film is driven in synchronism with the perforator and the cutter. The long film is transported in a first direction before being cut into the individual filmstrips. In cooperation with the cutting, a trailing end of the individual filmstrip in the first direction is moved in a direction which is reverse to the first direction to secure the trailing end to the spool. A cassette shell consisting of a pair of shell halves is temporarily assembled by mating the shell halves together while containing a spool inside the shell halves, and thereafter opened to an extent that confining elements still confine the position of flanges of the spool.

Abstract: A method is provided for cutting pipes, preferably welded pipes in conjunction with welding the pipes in a welding machine, and for cutting the pipes at a rate determined by the welding machine. At the same time a pipe is cut in a cutting position by a raisable and lowerable cutting device, the next pipe to be cut is fed to a pipe collecting position. The collecting position is displaced in relation to the cutting position, such that when the cutting device returns to its starting position upon completion of a cutting operation, the pipe is advanced one step to the pipe cutting position while simultaneously, the preceding pipe is advanced to the pipe collecting position.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for punching a hole in the end of a battery terminal bushing having a head at one end, a frustum at the other end and a spline ring intermediate the head and the frustum, the bushing including a tapered recess and terminating at a blank wall or disc at the end of the frustum, the apparatus including a base having a plate mounted with a number of openings equally spaced around the perimeter thereof, the plate being mounted on the base for rotary motion with respect to a punch assembly aligned with the path of motion of the opening, the punch assembly including a punch for removing the blank disc at the end of the frustum, and passing the punch through the tapered recess in the bushing and the opening in the plate.

Abstract: An apparatus and a related method are disclosed for cutting a sheet from flexible film wound on a roll and for placing the sheet on a pallet or on a layer of one or more boxes on the pallet. The roll is mounted so that it is rotatable about an axis parallel to one end of the pallet. A leading end of the film is gripped. The gripped end is pulled away from the roll. As the roll is thus rotated, a portion of the film is unwound from the roll. Also, at least a substantial part of the unwound portion is extended over the pallet or over a layer of boxes on the pallet. The unwound portion at a position is clamped between the pallet and the roll. The clamped portion is cut so as to cut a sheet having a predetermined length from the remaining film. The gripped end is released after the sheet has been cut therefrom so as to permit the sheet to drop onto the pallet or onto a layer of one or more boxes or other articles on the pallet. The gripped end may be lowered toward the pallet before the gripped end is released.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for cutting tubing in which uncut tubing is fed over punches connected to an arbor extending the length of a machine from a cutting head. The cutting head includes dies operative with the punches to cut the tubing into tubing pieces. Lengths of tubing are received by a carriage and cut into the tubing pieces. The carriage is capable of detecting the leading edge of the tubing and the trailing edge of the tubing. The lengths of tubing and tubing pieces have a unidirectional material flow to the end of the apparatus.

Abstract: The process for the production of a thermoelectrically weldable zone in thermoplastic materials is significantly improved by the true-to-size, air-free embedding of the heating conductor at a clearly defined depth below the joining surface. For this purpose in a first process step a sublevel wire bed bottom is cut in the material, in which is cut a substantially inverted T-shaped incision, running in two planes and at the desired depth, measured from the material surface and, following the surface profile, the cut is passed along the heating conductor insertion line. Using the same tool the cover strips formed are raised and stretched along the path of cut, so that an open channel is formed with the sublevel wire bed bottom. Preferably in the same operation the wire bed is also cut true-to-size with a cutting tool and corresponding to the heating conductor. In a later process step the heating conductor is placed through the still open channel, the cover strips are pressed and then melted.

Abstract: A ceramic green sheet for making a laminated ceramic capacitor is formed on an upper surface of a carrier film and carried onto a surface plate while maintaining adhesion between the carrier film and the ceramic green sheet. Thereafter a cutting line having a closed outline is defined in the ceramic green sheet, and a cut sheet enclosed by the cutting line is removed from the green sheet by a pickup apparatus having a punching edge at its periphery and provided with a suction head at a portion of the pickup apparatus enclosed by the punching edge.

Abstract: A web cutter includes a knife roll located above an anvil roll, a web infeed conveyor for moving a continuous web to be severed to the nip between the rolls and a segment discharge conveyor for removing segments cut from the web. The roll includes a plurality of fixed cutting knives and the anvil roll includes a plurality of fixed anvils such that rotation of the rolls brings each knife into engagement with an anvil to sever the web. Lift plates on the anvil roll are located immediately upstream from each anvil to raise the severed lead end of the web above the anvil in order to assure proper feeding to the discharge conveyor.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for producing motor laminations from blanks uses a servo-controlled linear transport mechanism for transporting blanks a fixed stroke distance to a notching station wherein the notching station includes a stationary index spindle and movable punch head which adjusts for accommodating blanks of varying diameters. A lamination removal mechanism removes and transfers a notched lamination from the notching station to a lamination carrier by traveling a fixed stroke distance. Different diameter blanks are facilitated by adjusting grippers and the punch head while the stroke distances remain unchanged. The linear transport mechanism and the lamination removal mechanism move independently to transfer blanks and laminations at different times to improve blank throughput.

Abstract: A system for handling of cheese in the green state particularly directed for handling natural cheese types such as cheddar and colby in a manner so that they can be conveniently sub-divided and individually packaged, on the same day of manufacturing, into a variety of finished consumer and cheese market sized portions. The system includes the handling of green cheese immediately as it is formed through the processes of batch or continuous cheese making equipment and cheese towers to provide, preferably, 40 to 45 or other selected pound blocks of green cheese. The cheese blocks are immediately handled after forming to eliminate the normally utilized bulk block aging or curing systems. The green cheese blocks are selectively handled and may be placed into temporary bulk block pouches and packaged for future handling or are directed to trimming and cutting devices which will trim and cut the blocks into the consumer, market size units.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for shaping a solid antiperspirant stick composition. The antiperspirant composition is produced in a generally cylindrical form having an oval or elliptical cross-section and the method and apparatus disclosed herein form the exposed end of the stick into a domed shape. A shaping mechanism comprises three shaped and heated cutting edges, each of which is arcuately oscillated with respect to the end of the stick within the plane of the major axis of the oval or ellipse. One pre-cut cutting edge is oscillated in one direction and makes a cut partially into one side of the exposed end of the stick. Rough cut and finish cut cutting edges are then arcuately passed through the end of the stick in the opposite direction.

Abstract: A forging method for making a forged product from an elongate steel bar material. The forging comprises a heating step in which the elongate bar material is heated, a cutting step in which the heated bar material is cut into billet materials each having a predetermined length, and a forging step in which the billet materials are successively forged. In this forging method, when an abnormality arises in the forging step, the cutting in the cutting step is interrupted and the bar material in the heating step is maintained in the heating step without being transferred toward the cutting step. Additionally, unless the abnormality is normalized within a predetermined limit time, the cutting in the cutting step is restarted and the billet materials formed after the restarting of the cutting are transferred to a storing apparatus which is outside of a normal forging line.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for severing and stacking articles which have been differentially pressure formed in a sheet of thermoplastic material from the sheet. Apparatus is provided for moving the sheet in a horizontal path and relatively vertically moving opposed upper and lower trim dies into engagement with vertically opposite sides of the sheet to trim the articles from the sheet at a trim station. The articles free fall through an opening in the lower die and free fall to an underlying accumulator. The accumulator includes mechanism which is moveable from a stack forming position in the path of freely falling articles to receive and accumulate freely falling severed articles in a stack, and a releasing position in which a formed the stack is released for vertical free fall.

Abstract: An apparatus for automatically stacking molded articles successively trimmed by a trim press from a web of thermoplastic material, the trim press having a stationary die member which includes a die plate and a die shoe, the apparatus comprising: (a) a frame; (b) a carriage mounted to the frame; (c) at least one stacking mechanism, the stacking mechanism comprising: (i) a plurality of stack rods rotatively mounted to the carriage each of the stack rods having a stack dog located substantially perpendicular to a first end thereof the stack dog positionable within a corresponding aperture of the die shoe of the stationary die member; and (ii) mechanism for rotating the stack rods so that the stack dog engages an endmost article of a completed stack of articles, the stack of articles located at least partially within the die shoe of the stationary die member; and (d) mechanism for transporting the completed stack of articles from within the die shoe of the stationary die member to a position for removal from the

Abstract: A process is described for producing garments or individual parts thereof from at least one top fabric, from which the cuts belonging to a garment are cut out in a cutting device and are fed to further processing, wherein, if desired, cuts of a predetermined type are provided with coated lining parts and are attached thereto, wherein during the cutting of the cuts, at least those cuts which will subsequently be provided with lining parts are provided mechanically with marks, and during the attachment of cuts to lining parts, at least one of the parts to be attached is provided with a mark immediately before, during or after the attachment. Separate marking in an operation intended especially for this purpose is thus avoided.

Abstract: An apparatus for decurling food material, such as slices severed from a food material supply , while the slices are being moved toward a transfer member includes a constriction positioned in close proximity to the slicing station and in general alignment therewith. The constriction is defined by opposing upper and lower surfaces; the upper surface is a stationary surface while the lower surface is a moving surface. The lower moving surface utilizes a plurality of flexible bands rotating around two driven rollers, which are disposed proximate to the food material supply. The bands which form the lower moving surface are driven at a speed equal to or greater than the speed at which the slicer operates.

Abstract: A cutter for cutting closed shape pieces into sheet material has a bristle bed conveyorized member advancing the sheet material from a receiving end to a discharge end past a cutting tool performing a cutting operation on the material. Disposed at the discharge end is a take-off ramp responsible for separating the sheet material in a single ply or a layup form from the underlying conveyor member at the juncture where the slats making up the bed depart from the upper run of the conveyor defining the support surface.

Abstract: A machine for cutting pin headers of a desired length from a standard length of pin header stock is disclosed. A vertically disposed track is provided for receiving the standard lengths of pin header stock. The stock is allowed to fall by gravity to a cutting station where a single cutting blade cuts individual pin headers from the end of the stock. The cut pin headers are deposited into a bin for convenient unloading. Leftover, or residual pieces of stock are directed into another bin for discarding or salvage.

Abstract: In a shear a workpiece is pressed by a holddown against a stationary blade so as to leave a piece to be cut off projecting past the blade, a movable blade is displaced forward past the stationary blade to cut off the piece, and a cut-off holder is pressed in back against the piece by a fluid-powered holding cylinder and moves back in the direction as the piece is cut off. Pressure is substantially completely relieved in the cylinder as soon as the movable blade starts to cut through the workpiece so that the cut-off holder does not substantially resist forward movement in the cutting direction. The movable blade is pressed forward in the direction against the workpiece by a main cylinder so that pressure in the main cylinder reaches a maximum level just before the movable blade starts to cut through the workpiece. The pressure in the main cylinder is monitored to trigger relief of pressure in the holding cylinder when the monitored pressure starts to decrease from the maximum level.

Abstract: A gasket punch and method for forming a gasket hole. The gasket punch is a single piece having a spherical head and a handle whereby the punch may be used to form gasket holes of various sizes up to the spherical head diameter with the gasket material on the machine part or platen and without the necessity of first forming an error prone pattern in the gasket material. The handle may have a diameter which is less than the spherical head diameter whereby the handle may be easily held and manipulated and the amount of material of which the punch is composed may be minimized. In order to provide a suitably small handle diameter without unnecessarily reducing strength and toughness, the gasket punch is preferably composed of forged steel.

Abstract: The belt-shaped member supplying method and apparatus are used for cutting a long material paid out of a winding roll into a belt-shaped member of a predetermined length and supplying the belt-shaped member onto a winding drum by means of a transfer device.

Abstract: A rotating blade is passed beneath an extruder nozzle and employed to cut tails of viscous materials which have been extruded.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting slices from two foodstuffs and for stacking the slices has a blade having an input side and an output side and an input table on the input side adapted to support the two foodstuffs next to each other and displaceable on the input side of the blade past same to cut slices from the foodstuffs so that the slices pass to the output side. A plurality of conveyor elements extending downstream from the output side of the blade displace the slices sequentially as they come from the blade through an upstream position adjacent the blade and into a downstream position. An output table is provided on the output side adjacent the downstream station and a transfer fork having tines engaged between the conveyor elements extends through the downstream station but not to the upstream station.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for trimming solid stick deodorants to provide for a protruding rounded deodorant stick in the container in a continuous manner on subsequent deodorant sticks whereby the deodorant stick is brought into registration with a means for raising the solid deodorant stick to a predetermined height, the deodorant stick then being transported into registration with a rotating knife which trims the deodorant stick and imparts a rounded oval configuration to the top of the deodorant stick, the deodorant stick then being transported to a conveyor and released for further packaging. The apparatus and method accomplishes the trimming in a continuous and automatic manner.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for cutting continuous webs having varying thicknesses, widths, and compositions into sheets. The apparatus includes a pair of oppositely rotating web feed assemblies employing a unique floating nip and clamping mechanism which engages the web and advances it a specified length past a poised cutting blade assembly and onto a simultaneously driven exit assembly. After the desired length of web has been fed, the drive mechanisms stop, and the cutting blade assembly cycles to clamp the web on the upstream side and cut. During the cutting stroke the web is held taut on the downstream side by the web feed assemblies. Upon completion of the clamping and cutting stroke, the cutting blade assembly returns and stops at its poised position.

Abstract: An apparatus and process for mar free handling of sheet steel pieces and blanks die cut therefrom in a press, in which load and unload trolleys are used with vacuum pickup and transport of the sheet steel piece and blanks from respective locations at the front and rear of the press. A pusher slides the sheet steel pieces off a low friction platform at the front of the press and onto a non scuffing but smooth and soft bed liner, and the cut blank is raised with the die by an array of vacuum cups each partially recessed into the die board. A table is extendible from the rear of the press to be positioned beneath the die and receive the blank thereafter released from the die cavity. The table is retracted to allow pick-up therefrom by the unload trolley.

Abstract: A hay bale cutter and a method of cutting a hay bale open, particularly suited for large round bales. The cutter has an elongate generally horizontal blade with a sharpened cutting leading edge, a skid on a lower edge for keeping the blade above ground, an upward facing support surface for support of a cut bale on the blade, and structure for securing the trailing end of the blade to a motor vehicle. The method has the steps of mounting the blade on a vehicle, taking the vehicle and mounted blade to a hay bale, spearing the sharpened end of the blade into one end of the bale, and plunging the blade through the length of the bale to cut the bale open along a radius of the bale.

Abstract: A saw mechanism for logs convolutely wound on cores and method wherein the upstream end of the log has its core supported on a support member attached to a log-advancing pusher, the chain carrying the pushers being equipped with stripper plates immediately downstream of the pushers to strip trim annuli from the pusher support members incident to arcuate movement of the stripper plate around the chain tail sprocket.

Abstract: The thickness of slices cut by an automatic slicing machine is controlled to produce a draft of slices having a predetermined weight. Desired thickness is determined in accordance with the cross-sectional density of the food product being sliced, which is obtained from the weight and thickness of the most recently cut slice or slices. This information is combined with a desired weight for each of the remaining slices to be cut in the draft to control the rate of advance of the food product into a continuously rotating knife so as to obtain the proper thickness.

Abstract: A system for detecting offsize defects and for segregating the veneer sheets containing the defects from the non-defective sheets. Scanners are positioned along the in-feed conveyor leading to the clipper. As offsize defects are identified, a computer determines which of the sheets to be cut will contain the defects. These sheets are segregated as by diverting them to a pull chain conveyor following the cutting of the sheets from the continuous sheeting. Dye is sprayed on the area of the defects as detected by the scanners to aid in further handling of the defective sheets when removed from the pull chain.

Abstract: A method for transporting panel sections away from a panel saw, and an apparatus for accomplishing same. Each panel section is lifted clear of the vicinity of the panel saw after being cut off from a workpiece panel and deposited on a conveyor for transport at an angle relative to the direction of advance of the workpiece panel. A sliding carriage, having a plurality of suction cups disposed upon the underside of a vertically reciprocating press beam, is used to transport the panel sections.

Abstract: A die body is provided defining a longitudinal channel therethrough including the cross-sectional shape of a metal stud to be cut and an opening is formed through the die body extending normal to the web of the channel and including a first arm portion extending along one longitudinal margin of the channel and a second arm portion extending from the first arm portion to a point spaced slightly inward of the other longitudinal margin of the channel, the first arm portion of the opening including opposite side portions thereof disposed inward and outward of the one longitudinal margin of the channel.

Abstract: A heated aluminum log which is to be sheared is inserted through a stationary die and a movable die. A clamp of the stationary die is then moved towards an axis of that die to clamp the log against a diametrically opposite portion of the internal surface of the stationary die. Opposite members of the stationary die are then moved towards each other in a direction perpendicular to the direction of movement of the clamp, to limit expansion of the sheared log. The movable die is then moved to shear the log.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for automatically providing notching indicia on the edge of a garment subassembly to provide a dimensional reference to be utilized in subsequent fabrication of the goods. A conveyor transports the garment subassembly to a notching station at which the pre-assembled parts are secured in accurate registration to the path of a notching device that is movable on a carriage toward and away from the notching station. The notching device includes a vertically extending notching blade having a recessed cutting edge which, when positioned at the notching station, overlies an edge of the garment part subassembly. On displacing the blade downward, the notch indicia is cut into the garment piece after which the notching unit is withdrawn to a home position while the notched part is transported by the conveyor to a subsequent fabrication step. In a preferred embodiment two notching devices supported in a common path on opposite sides of the notching station are utilized.

Abstract: An inverter/stacker for use in the manufacture of brick is disclosed in which two gripper frames are provided. Each gripper frame operates to grip slugs at a gripping position and to stack slugs at a stacking position in which the slugs are deposited on other slugs to form pairs of slugs, with one resting on the other. During the transfer, the slugs may be inverted for face-setting or stacked without facing. During each complete cycle of operation, each gripper frame grips transfers and stacks slugs so that higher outputs can be obtained without operating the inverter/stacker at high cyclic rates. In the illustrated embodiment, four slugs are stacked during each cycle of operation.

Abstract: A method of punching patterns of holes in printed circuit boards and sheets of material used in the manufacture of printed circuit boards. Each hole pattern punched is precisely positioned with respect to the metallized circuitry or the photographic image of the circuitry on each sheet of material. This method is accomplished with the use of an optical registration punch which automatically positions each sheet of material and punches a pattern of holes therein at a precise position with respect to the circuitry or the image of the circuitry on each sheet of material.

Abstract: A first belt conveyor carries a cable in the direction of the cable axis. A second belt conveyor receives cable coming form the first belt conveyor. The direction of transportation of the second belt conveyor is at a substantial angle relative to the transportation direction of the first belt conveyor. A guide channel, which extends from a delivery side of the first belt conveyor to an input side of the second belt conveyor, is provided for the cable. A slider is disposed opposite to the second belt conveyor relative to the guide channel for engaging a wire disposed in the guide channel. A slot is disposed between guide channel and second belt conveyor. The slot opens for a cable section pushed by the slider from the guide channel into the direction of the second belt conveyor for placing the cable between belts of the second belt conveyor system.

Abstract: In a method and apparatus for cutting a chain of longitudinally joined elongate products into pieces of a desired length, the chain of elongate products is intermittently fed by a feed unit through a first distance equal to the length of each piece to be severed, along a path through a detector and a cutting unit downstream of the detector and the chain is cut successively into pieces of the desired length at the cutting unit while the feed unit is inoperative. As the chain is advanced, the joint portion of each adjacent pair of the elongate products is detected by the detector. Upon detection of the joint portion, a control unit computes the number of prospective pieces of the desired length producible by severing from a longitudinal portion of the chain which extends from the present leading end of the chain toward the detected joint portion and terminates short of the detected joint portion.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for cutting tubular band stock to produce an elastic band and unbonding the abutting edges of the band is disclosed. The apparatus includes a guillotine-type movable blade which cuts transversely across the tubular stock and band engaging surface proximate the blade which is formed to engage the cut band and shift opposite sides of the stock in a direction along the cut to break any bonds formed during the cutting process. The shifting apparatus is provided by a pair of fingers which engage one side of the band and cooperate with an arcuate surface engaging the opposite side of the band to shift two portions of the band next to the ends thereof toward the middle of the band and thereby effect breaking of the bonds. A reversible blade and reversible shear plate, as well as a lubricating structure and assembly for adjusting the band with which is cut also are disclosed.

Abstract: In a machine for slicing food such as meat, sausage, cheese or the like comprising a conveying device for carrying the slices of food cut off by a rotating blade to a deposit area and a knocking-off mechanism for transferring the slices from the conveying device to the deposit area, the conveying device is driven by an independent motor of its own. The position of a slide carrying the food to be cut can be sensed by sensing means, and a follow-up control device which is connected, on the one hand, to the sensing means, and, on the other hand, to a drive motor and its encoder ensures synchronous follow-up of the conveying device in dependence upon the position of the slide.

Abstract: A cutting device for slitting a textile material, particularly a textile reinforced elastomeric ply lying on a curved surface (11). The device comprises a guide means (14) and a carriage (13) mounted thereon at a fixed height from the curved surface (11). A serrated rotary knife (12) is mounted on the carriage together with a plough means (15) which lifts the ply (12) off the curved surface (11) permitting the knife to cut the textile material without contacting the surface, and also for raising one of the cut edges off the curved surface.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for slicing, lifting and carrying round bales or the like. The method for slicing the bale consists of making a radial cut through the length of the bale. The radial cut causes the circumferentially wrapped bale fibers to be cut which causes bale to open up. A partial radial cut, leaving the outer bale fibers uncut, can be made leaving bale substantially in a cylindrical shape to facilitate easy transport with a forklift like carrier. The apparatus consists of a mast assembly mounted to raiseable three point hitch of an agricultural tractor or the like. A pair of parallel forks are directly attached to mast and engage the curved sides of bale so as to lift and support bale for easy transport. A hydraulically activated knife assembly is attached to mast and forks. The knife has serrated teeth which cut through bale when knife reciprocates. A bumper or work guide when attached to the end of forks holds bale during cutting process.

Abstract: A slicing machine for cold cuts with a carriage for the goods to be sliced (2), an arresting plate, a blade (3) a depositing device (4) and a depositing tray (7) on a slidable, rotatable or vertically adjustable tray carrier (8) is equipped with a load cell (10), to which the depositing tray (7), respectively its carrier is fastened on the load side. The load cell (10) is mounted on the carrier ( 8) to ride along therewith. The load cell (10) is connected to an evaluating circuit and an indicator (19,21). A keyboard (6,20) for the price per kilogram or for the input of a target weight, respectively of a desired number of slices can further be provided, which is connected over the evaluating unit with the drive of the carriage (2) for the foodstuff to be cut, for the purpose of its uncoupling.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing egg timer-shaped absorbent pads in which an absorbent material continuous strip of uniform thickness and uniform width is feed along a longitudinal path and divided in the longitudinal direction, along a continuous wavy cutting line extending symmetrically relative to the median line of the strip, into two partial strips of periodically variable width having one straight edge on and opposite wavy edge, and are offset relative to each other and superimposed, one on the other, to form a composite strip having opposite hourglass-shaped edges and a central part having a thickness twice that of the opposite edges and cutting such superimposed, composite strip in the transverse direction in the zones of maximum width.

Abstract: A method of punching cylindrical tubes with openings from the inside to the outside. In accordance with the method, the punching apparatus includes a mandrel that slidably supports the dies and a backup die that includes a slug ejecting punch which serves the dual function of ejecting the slugs from the backup die and also retracting the punches.