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: An method and an apparatus for high speed cutting, a predetermined repetitive pattern in a continuous moving web of material. The web is supported and displaced in a flat plane, and a sensor is utilized to detect the lateral position of the web on this plane. At least one cutting element, herein a high pressure water jet, is displaceably supported for movement on two transverse axes in a horizontal plane adjacent a face of the web and generates a cutting beam to cut a predetermined repetitive pattern through the web. The cutting element is secure to a guide member which is displaced in the horizontal plane adjacent the web, and its displacement and rate of speed are controlled by a control device.

Abstract: Apparatus for cutting a cruciform shaped radioactive control rod into three separate cut sections, the cruciform shaped radioactive control rod being of the type having four substantially equidistantly spaced sheaths extending from and along a large portion of the length thereof, each sheath containing at least one radioactive rod, and a velocity limiter at one end thereof, the apparatus including a first cutting device for cutting the velocity limiter away from the remainder of the control rod to form a first one of the cut sections; and a second cutting device for simultaneously cutting the remainder of the control rod along the lengthwise direction thereof and substantially transverse to the first cutting device, to form two chevron shaped sections as the remaining two of the cut sections.

Abstract: A nesting vise for holding bundles of stock comprising a base with a fixed jaw and a movable jaw mounted thereon, both jaws having faces with apertures therein. A strap is provided which extends between the two jaws through the apertures. A lock is provided to hold the strap on one end, and a strap tightener is attached to the other end of the strap which tightens and holds the bundle of stock, resulting in even radial pull towards the center of the vise so as to locate all of the pieces of stock in the bundle and locking them together.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for producing mat packets from panels of an adhesive material which adhesive material is covered with release layers. The panel of adhesive material is advanced sequentially through a feed device, a clamping device, a release layer removing device and a cutting device. The leading edge of the panel, with the release layers removed, extends freely beyond the clamping device toward the cutting device. The panel is advanced in increments corresponding to the length of the mat strip to be produced, and, when the panels are clamped by the clamping device, the panels with release layers removed are cut into mat strips, which are deposited on a transporting device in stacks of several on top of one another to form a mat packet.

Abstract: In a conventional Bunch folder having a swing chute, beaters, spirals mounted for rotation about vertical axes, and a reciprocal cutting blade, a cut initiating device is provided. The cut initiating device initiates a cut (forms a knick) at the edge of a perforation between adjacent business forms to be severed from each other, so that the cutting blade may easily sever the forms completely at the perforation. The cut initiating device comprises a short horizontally extending blade mounted by a collar to a shaft of the spiral adjacent the cutting blade start position so that the blade is rotatable with the spiral for engaging the folding web at a perforation and forming a 1/16 to 1/2 inch cut in the perforation at an edge. The blade may have a horizontal cutting edge portion, a cantilevered portion at a different level than the cutting edge portion and a step portion interconnecting the cutting and cantilevered portions. A knick in the edge is formed at first predetermined intervals (e.g.

Abstract: A stationary steel rule cutting die for cutting a fixed pattern in each of a plurality of stacked compressible material layers according to the shape of the steel rule die and including a vacuum system for reducing the stacked height of the compressible material layers prior to cutting. The die assembly includes an enclosure comprising an upper wall and collapsible side walls extending downwardly from the upper wall. A rigid annular structure is secured to the lower edge of the collapsible side walls. The enclosure is positioned over the stacked compressible material layers with an annular sealing surface defined on the lower peripheral edges of the rigid annular structure coacting with an upwardly facing, closed loop sealing surface defined on the steel rule cutting die to define a sealed chamber from which air is exhausted through the rigid annular structure to collapse the side walls of the enclosure and compress the material layers prior to cutting.

Abstract: A machine for corrugating lengths of continuous strip stock that includes first and second sets of corrugation-forming rollers for receiving strip stock from associated coil rolls and feeding corrugating stock to vertically spaced slots in a shared cutting station. Running length of each corrugated strip is measured and the cutting station is controlled so as to obtain severed stock sections of predetermined lengths, which may be variably programmed in a predetermined sequence. The cutting station includes a stationary plate having vertically spaced strip-receiving slots, and a pair of shear blades integrally formed on a shear plate selectively driven by the machine controller through a cycloidal drive mechanism.

Abstract: In the loading of pallets (10) with cartons (11) arranged in layers (carton layer 14), intermediate layers (24) consisting of paper or the like frequently have to be introduced between the carton layers (14). The pallets (10) are loaded by a palletizer (13) which is known for these purposes and which has a pivotable and multiply bendable cantilever arm (19). The intermediate layers (24) are laid onto the carton layers (14) by this cantilever arm (19) with a suction holder (23). At the same time, portions of a continuous web of material (25) running off from a reel (26) are drawn onto the completed carton layer (14) and then severed to the correct size from the web of material (25).

Abstract: A printing plate registering method and device having a substantially flat working surface. A punch is provided for punching holes through printing plates and through masking flats located on the working surface. A pair of pin members is provided extending above the working surface and insertable in holes located in a lateral row along one edge of the printing plate. The pin members impart a lateral tension along the row of holes, causing the printing plate to be registered with respect to the pin members and with respect to the working surface. The pin members tangentially nest in the laterally outermost tangent point of such pre-punched register holes, causing precise lateral and longitudinal registering. Selectable pairs of pin members are provided to allow for centering of the printing plate on the easel body. Pairs of such pin members are extendable or retractable upon rotation of a shaft having cam grooves therein.

Abstract: A stationary steel rule cutting die for cutting a fixed pattern in each of a plurality of stacked compressible material layers according to the shape of the steel rule die and including a vacuum system for reducing the stacked height of the compressible material layers prior to cutting. The die assembly includes an enclosure comprising an upper wall and collapsible side walls extending downwardly from the upper wall. The enclosure is positioned over the stacked compressible material layers with the lower peripheral edges of the side walls of the enclosure coacting with an upwardly facing, closed loop sealing surface defined on the steel rule cutting die to define a sealed chamber from which air is exhausted to collapse the side walls of the enclosure and compress the material layers prior to cutting.

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: Apparatus and method for trimming signatures moving in a continuous stream and in an arcuate path as controlled by a conveyor. A trimming knife is stationarily disposed adjacent the arcuate path for engaging the marginal edges of the signatures and trimming those edges. Input and output conveyors are in signature-flow communication with the conveyor of the arcuate path, and either input or output conveyor can be reversed for the input and output function, and also the conveyor having the arcuate path can accordingly be reversed so that the signatures can move in either continuous arcuate path of movement for the trimming process.

Abstract: A flexible strand stacker comprises:(a) a conveyor having an elongated endwise traveling stretch onto which the strand is fed to be carried endwise on the stretch,(b) a gripper to grip a trailing portion of the strand as forward extent of the strand is carried endwise on the stretch,(c) structure to effect displacement of the gripper to a position locating the gripped portion of the strand sufficiently out of alignment with the stretch that the strand is progressively pulled sidewardly off the stretch in response to endwise travel of the stretch relative to the strand,(d) and a holder such as a roller is provided to temporarily and locally hold the trailing portion of the strand to the traveling conveyor means stretch to travel therewith; the holder then releases the wire strand and the gripper initially grips the trailing portion of the strand.

Abstract: A method of making a ballistic helmet and a helmet made by the method in which each of the plies making up the body is formed from a hexagonal blank cut from ballistic cloth and provided with slits extending from the apices thereof toward the center to form a central area and segments extending from the central area. As the blanks are laid up in a mold cavity the segments overlap to provide first portions which overlap and second portions which do not. As successive blanks are laid up they are rotated slightly to stagger the portions of adjacent plies. As the laying up operation proceeds, progressively smaller blanks are laid up between adjacent relatively larger blanks.

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: The invention concerns a stacker for a food loaf slicing machine of the type which includes first and second stack supports capable of being alternately positioned so as to receive food loaf slices of generally uniform thickness thereon as they are cyclically cut from the end of a food loaf at a slicing station into which the food loaf is advanced. When one of the stack supports has received a stack of N slices thereon, it is momentarily rotated a half turn outwardly of its slice receiving position under a force which exceeds a frictional force exerted between the underside of the stack and the upper surface of the stack support. As the one stack support is so rotated, the stack of slices present thereon is, virtually without being subject to any lateral force, allowed to fall freely downward as it is, until it is placed on a conveyor.

Abstract: A transfer table system includes a plurality of stationary work tables positioned with their respective longitudinal axes in parallel spaced relationship and a transfer table movable into end to end juxtaposition with the work tables. The transfer table and the work tables each include a boundary layer of pressurized air above the table top to facilitate the transfer of previously stacked layers of cloth between the work tables and the transfer table.

Abstract: This application discloses a method and apparatus for converting thermoplastic web material, flat or tubular, to produce bags. A conventional bag machine produces web segments provided with a group of centrally located holes and each segment is transferred by a conventional rotary transfer device to one of a plurality of platforms which are sequentially located at a stacking station. The platforms are provided with upwardly projecting pins on which the web sections are stacked. After the accumulation of a desired number of web segments on the platform located at the stacking station, the loaded platform is indexed away from the stacking station to a perforating station and then to a cutting or cutting and blocking station to thereby produce two bag stacks, each of which are retained on the associated platform by the pins.

Abstract: A mobile air-equipped transfer table and method of using the transfer table is disclosed. The transfer table includes a perforated top and an air system to provide uniform quantities of pressurized air at the table top openings. Gearmotor drives are mounted at each end of the transfer table to rotate frictional, floor contacting drive wheels. In use, the transfer table is moved to a position adjacent to a stationary, air-equipped table and the pressurized air systems of both tables are energized. A boundary layer of pressurized air is formed at each table top to allow a single operator to move heavy loads from one table to the other. In a preferred arrangement, spreading, cutting and bundling tables are arranged in side by side juxtaposition and the transfer table is moved in tracks into longitudinal alignment with each of the tables to serially advance a layered fabric spread from table to table.

Abstract: A steel rule die assembly for cutting a fixed pattern in each of a plurality of stacked compressible material layers according to the shape of the steel rule including a plate member defining a support surface, a steel rule die adapted to be positioned on the support surface, and a continuous rigid frame adapted to be removably positioned on the support surface in surrounding relation to the steel rule die and pivotally secured to the plate member along one side edge of the frame so as to allow the frame to be pivoted upwardly about that side edge to allow removable and replacement of the steel rule die.

Abstract: A device with the aid of which the first workpiece bundle, in particular, of long and narrow configuration, severed on a panel splitting saw from a workpiece stack which is to be split up into single workpiece bundles, is held in such a way that upon termination of an advancing motion, it cannot tilt over in the direction of advance, is described. To this end, the device is characterized by a counter holding member which is drivable parallel to the cutting plane of the panel splitting saw which splits up the workpiece stack from a position of rest into a stop position engaging the workpiece bundle, and which is movable together with the workpiece bundle in the direction of advance.

Abstract: A stationary steel rule cutting die for cutting a fixed pattern in each of a plurality of stacked compressible material layers according to the shape of the rule die, including a vacuum system for vertically reducing the stack height of the compressible material layers without lateral distortion prior to cutting and retaining the compress condition during the progressive or incremental cutting operations.

Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and method for cutting paper sheets into smaller sheet sections and collating the sheet sections. The apparatus includes a table having a longitudinal section, followed by a transverse section. Chains just below the table move a sheet stack longitudinally past a first blade which cuts the stack longitudinally, after which one of the stack portions is elevated above the other and placed on top of the other to combine the portions into a second stack. A second pair of chains moves the second stack in the transverse direction past a second blade which cuts the second stack transversely. One of the stack portions formed by the second cut is elevated above, then placed on top of, the other portion to form a further reduced sized third stack, which then is moved transversely to a third cutting station at which it is cut in the transverse direction. Again, one of the portions created by the third cut is elevated above and placed on the other portion to form a final stack of sheet sections.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for simultaneously cutting a plurality of picture frame mats with picture display windows in a single operative procedure by initially arranging the mats in a reverse and inverted order and cutting them with an apparatus mounting a plurality of cutters, one for each mat, at an angle to the planes of the mats and thereafter separating and rearranging the mats to frame the picture in their desired picture frame array.

Abstract: In a method and assembly for trimming a stack of veneer sheets, both lengthwise and transverse cutting lines are determined in advance by means of a director light projecting a line. The position data of the determined line are processed by a computer to control the feed to a cutting plane. Alternatively, the cutting lines are marked. The stack is firmly clamped between conveyor belts of a mechanism by which, after the first lengthwise trimming, the stack is turned upside down, after the same procedure for determining the cutting line, fed to the cutting plane. The transverse trimming is effected in similar fashion.

Abstract: A stationary steel rule cutting die for cutting a fixed pattern in each of a plurality of stacked compressible material layers according to the shape of the rule die including a vacuum system for reducing the stack height of the compressible material layers prior to cutting.

Abstract: The method of cutting a plurality of boards or parts (20) from a number of stacked panels (10) which includes placing the panels upon a perforated fixture (2) including a plenum (14) such that the area beneath the perforated surface (4) may be evacuated. The stack of panels (10) are cut into boards or parts (20) the desired size and shape with the exception of a small tab (22) connecting each board or part (20) such that the entire panel (10) remains a unit. An impermeable sheet (24) such as plastic is placed over the top of the partially cut panels (10) and the space (14) beneath the partially cut panels is evacuated holding the parts in position. The tabs (22) are then cut and the boards or parts (20) removed.

Abstract: An automatically controlled machine for cutting limp sheet material includes a vacuum bed defining a surface on which the sheet material is spread and held during cutting. A reciprocating cutting blade penetrates through the sheet material and the support surface of the vacuum bed as the blade is translated parallel to the support surface along lines of cut. A plurality of air-impermeable panels extend through the bed in spaced relationship to sectionalize the vacuum bed and permit the vacuum to be generated only in those portions of the bed where the cutting blade is operating. To prevent interference with the penetrating cutting blade, the panels are individually withdrawn from the bed when the cutting blade approaches.

Abstract: Method and apparatus of handling signatures which are first presented to a rotating type of trimmer and are then collected in a compensated stack where the folds of the signature are positioned on opposite sides for levelling the stack. The trimmer includes a clamp which secures the signature while it is being trimmed on its three open edges, and the clamp can then be actuated to move the signature to a collection location where the compensated stack of signatures is formed.

Abstract: A method of making signs in multiple colors employs an automatically controlled sign making machine and a multi-ply layup of sign material in which the different plies have different colors. The sign making machine has a cutting tool that is moved in the cutting relationship with the layup to cut sign characters defined in the machine memory. The cutting tool is adjustable in depth of cut into the layup so that signs having characters and background of different colors can be prepared.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for cutting woven labels. According to the invention, the woven labels, in the form of a continuous ribbon or the like, are fed step by step towards an ultrasonic wave cutting device, where each label is centered and pressed between a first cutting element defining the outline of the label and a second cutting element, aligned with the first, constituting an ultrasonic wave emitter; an ultrasonic impulse of adequate frequency and intensity, causes the cutting and simultaneous cold welding of the label all around the edges.

Abstract: An automatically controlled machine for cutting limp sheet material includes a vacuum bed defining a surface on which the sheet material is spread and held during cutting. A reciprocating cutting blade penetrates through the sheet material and the support surface of the vacuum bed as the blade is translated parallel to the support surface along lines of cut. A plurality of air-impermeable panels extend through the bed in spaced relationship to sectionalize the vacuum bed and permit the vacuum to be generated only in those portions of the bed where the cutting blade is operating. To prevent interference with the penetrating cutting blade, the panels are individually withdrawn from the bed when the cutting blade approaches.

Abstract: A method and device are described for producing slitted plastic film sheets of the type used for wrapping lettuce and similar produce. A form of punch press is used with an upper ram and lower platen and a tray moves in and out horizontally between the ram and platen. On the tray is a die with slitter blades over which is placed a stack of plastic film sheets. The tray moves in and the ram presses down on the sheets, cutting slits through the stack. Then the tray moves out and the stack of slitted sheets is removed. A single operator can produce 450 slitted sheets per minute with this system.

Abstract: Pattern making, particularly for the garment industry, including longitudinally advancing a web of pattern material onto a cutting table; simultaneously longitudinally advancing a web of fleece material in parallel contact with the pattern material, such that the web of fleece abuts the underside of the cardboard material; pulling a vacuum through said web of fleece, such that the pattern material is pulled towards the fleece; cutting patterns in the pattern material within the confines of the cutting table, such that a burr is formed on the underside of said pattern material and said burr engages said fleece material; simultaneously advancing the web of pattern material and the web of fleece away from the cutting area and separating the web of fleece from the pattern material, so that the cut patterns may be removed.

Abstract: A method of providing a structural drop-off in a preplied two or more sheet resin impregnated laminate for forming a composite of several laminates having different structural drop-off positions, each of the sheets having unidirectional fibers oriented at a bias relative to the fibers of the other sheet, and the steps of the method including making a plurality of feather cuts along one edge of the sheets in the direction of the fibers of one sheet and across the direction of the fibers of the other sheet resulting in negligible structural effect on one sheet and foreshortening of the fibers in the other sheet thereby providing a structural drop-off internal to the edge of the preplied two sheet laminate.

Abstract: Dome-shaped shoulder pad discs are placed in face-to-face overlying relationship and loaded in segmented carriers of a surface conveyor system. Each carrier moves its shoulder pad discs to a first station where the material is cut between the segments of the carrier and formed into a leading stack of shoulder pads, a following stack of shoulder pads, and an intermediate stack of waste material. The carrier is moved to a second station where the intermediate stack of waste material is pushed downwardly between the segments of the carrier and ejected. The leading segment of the carrier is moved to a third station where the leading stack of shoulder pads is picked from the leading segment of the carrier and moved to a stacker, and then the following segment of the carrier is moved to the third station where its stack of shoulder pads is picked from the following segment of the carrier and moved to the stacker. The stacker forms the shoulder pads in a vertical stack.

Abstract: A method particularly applicable to the slicing of friable meat products with a rotaty cutting blade comprises feeding the product forwardly when it is not in contact with the cutting blade, and arresting the feeding when the slicing is taking place, and apparatus therefor. Provision is made to make the first slice of a stack somewhat thicker than the remaining slices in order to act as a carrier for the stack.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing, collecting and transporting platelike fins, including fin forming apparatus for simultaneously forming plural fins in adjacent side-by-side relationship from sheet material. The forming apparatus causes the fins to be discharged outwardly in the lengthwise direction thereof. Fin handling are positioned adjacent the forming apparatus for collecting and transporting the fins. The fin handling apparatus includes an endless conveyor having a substantially straight upper reach positioned adjacent the forming apparatus and movable substantially transverse to the direction of movement of the fins as discharged from the forming apparatus. A plurality of elongated fin collectors are fixed to the endless conveyor, being spaced a predetermined distance apart throughout the lengthwise direction of the conveyor, the predetermined distance being equal to the centerline-to-centerline distance between adjacent fins as discharged from the forming apparatus.

Abstract: An apparatus for separating paired battery plates into individual plates is disclosed. The disclosed apparatus has an improved alignment means which assures that the plates are separated about a fixed centerline. The apparatus is also suited for separating a plurality of stacked plates in a single cycle.

Abstract: An arrangement for fabricating planar elements which may be stacked for producing predetermined surfaces and bodies. The planar elements have cross-sections corresponding to respective cross-sections of the surface to be constructed. The planar elements are formed by cutting them from plate-shaped material or sheet metal, and the cut-out elements are held to the parent sheet or plate material by tabs. The planar elements are cut successively from the sheet or plate-shaped material at spaced intervals. The cutting action is such as to leave the tabs for holding the planar elements in place. Registration holes are punched about the planar element, so that these may be readily stacked relative to each other, as required to form the surface to be constructed. Sprocket holes are also punched in the sheet material to advance the material along a processing path at which the various processing stations are located.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method and apparatus for the simultaneous machining of a stack of plate-like workpieces wherein the individual workpieces of the stack are initially assembled into a stack which is held in a manner which will not interfere with the subsequent machining operations by use of rivets or the like. The plate-like workpieces are mounted in the stack upon a support plate, and the machining operations are preferably so conducted as to penetrate through the lowermost member of the stack and into the upper portion of the support plate. The machine tool is preferably one in which a series of stations for drilling, riveting, machining and then drilling out the rivets is provided. The tool may include means for automatically and precisely moving the stack between the several work stations.

Abstract: Methods for separating and stacking sheets of paper, cardboard and the like delivered from sheet punching machines and consisting of useful and waste portions connected together by small fillets are disclosed. The methods include supplying punched but unseparated sheets onto a severing table, severing the sheets in order to form separate stack portions and depositing these separate stack portions onto a stacking surface after withdrawing the severing table from under the stacked portions.

Abstract: A foliage guide for holding in alignment several pieces of stem supported foliage for floral processing such as trimming. The guide comprises a wood base formed with a handle. The base supports two sets of spaced posts which serve as an alignment guide for stems which carry foliage which require processing.

Abstract: A process and an apparatus for manufacturing books, blocks or calendars by cutting large sheets having printed thereon different pages into smaller sheets which must be brought into an orderly succession before the pages or sheets are bound. The usual folding of the large sheets can be omitted, in that the sheets are fed individually and successively to a conveyor means and are conveyed towards a cutting means; the individual sheets are stacked in a partially overlapping manner. The cutting of the sheets is effected whenever predetermined widths of the individual sheets have been conveyed through the cutting means.

Abstract: Sheet material is moved along its length from a supply to a take-up spool and the material is inspected as it is moved. A garment pattern image is projected on and is moved with the material. The operator determines where the material is to be cut either from the length accumulated on the take-up spool or from the image projected on the material, and if a flaw in the material is detected, the operator determines if the flaw should be removed by identifying the pattern part in the garment from the image projected on the material where the flaw will appear. If the flaw is to be removed, the operator cuts the flaw out and splices the cut ends of material together at splice marks in the image projected on the material. The spools loaded with sheet material with this procedure are loaded in a creel, and the ends of the sheets of material from the spools in the creel are aligned in a vertically stacked arrangement and moved to a cutting apparatus where the garment pattern is cut in the stacked sheets of material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for hacking and stacking brick. Brick slugs are received on an off bearing belt and transferred to a discharge area. At the discharge area, a pusher on a fore stroke engages a slug on the off bearing belt and pushes the same onto a receiving area. While the slug is being pushed on the fore stroke, another slug arrives at the discharge area, and the pusher on the aft stroke engages this slug and pushes the same off the other side of the off bearing belt onto an elevator assembly aligned with the off bearing belt which then moves up to a raised position aligned with a second receiving area. A second pusher driven in time relationship with the other pusher then moves the brick slug from the raised elevator assembly onto the second receiving area.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for hacking brick specifically involving the stacking of uncured or green brick into a two course high brick stack prior to the bricks being transferred and stacked onto a kiln car for curing and drying. As a part of the method and apparatus of the present invention, slugs of brick material are received and successively pushed by a first pusher through a wire type brick cutter onto a receiving table, each slug resulting in a series of aligned bricks disposed in side-by-side relationship and referred to as a brick row. A vertically movable elevator assembly is mounted adjacent the supply table and includes at least two vertically spaced receiving levels formed therein with each receiving level being adapted to receive and support a row of bricks. As the elevator assembly is actuated up and down, individual brick rows are pushed into each of the respective receiving levels of the elevator assembly.

Abstract: A method for manufacture of bag-like toy constructions assembled from individual vinyl panels. Designs, comprising the artwork on each individual panel, are printed continuously on vinyl sheets in precisely reproducible and spaced sequence. Each vinyl sheet has indexing and registration marks printed along opposed edges. After printing, a plurality of said vinyl sheets are stacked and fastened together in registered alignment. Templates are then utilized to outline each individual panel on the uppermost vinyl sheet. A cutting tool is then used to cut all sheets simultaneously along the template lines. The resulting panels are then seamed together with the printed design face of each panel facing outward, forming a completed toy construction.

Abstract: A banknote invalidating machine comprises an interchangeable plate for receiving a pile of banknotes of given format, a press which compresses the pile of notes, and a perforating tool which is moved by a sequential control to perforate the compressed pile of notes at given locations.