Abstract: A sled which is mounted between an uncoiler and a multiple-head or arbor type slitter and which carries a pair of pinch rolls and a peeler. The sled is adapted for longitudinal movement between the slitter and the uncoiler to allow indexing of the slitter arbors and feeding of the coil initially into the slitter.

Abstract: An apparatus for simultaneously cutting wire segments having acutely angled ends from a plurality of wires including guide apparatus and feeding apparatus for the wires, and a cutting device comprising a base, reciprocable shear plate and clamp plate, each of which has parallel grooves therein, with each also having sliding surfaces that are at an acute angle to the axis of the grooves. A collection plate is also provided to contain cut segments and transfer the segments to a common collection point.

Abstract: An arrangement for the processing of a moving material web, in particular for the creasing or punching of an extruded material web made of plastics. In the manufacture of such material webs a number of operational steps take place directly in conjunction with the manufacture of the web itself, and the fact that for reasons of quality as well as of manufacturing technique the extrusion process cannot be interrupted makes it necessary to attend to any changes in the crease pattern etc. during operation. The arrangement in accordance with the invention makes this possible, in that the material web can be brought into contact optionally with different pairs of processing rollers with the help of a pair of counter-rollers supported in a swivelling cradle, any pair of unused rollers being freely exchangeable against a pair of rollers with a different creasing pattern.