Abstract: In an apparatus for punching out a part from a workpiece or blank, particularly for punching out a segment from a photograph, for the engagement of the workpiece a punching table is arranged under a punching plate which can be rotated away and lowered in direction x, a punching pattern being placed on the workpiece.

Abstract: A plastic-mold cutting apparatus using supersonic waves, equipped with a horn allowed to vibrate by supersonic waves from a supersonic oscillator, applies its horn on a plastic mold to cut the plastic mold at a prescribed position by use of the vibrational energy of the horn. An oscillating mechanism containing the supersonic oscillator and horn is provided stationary. A pressing element for pressing the mold placed on the horn is provided so as to be capable of moving in the direction toward the horn. The structure that the pressing element possible to be of light weight is designed to move, leads to decrease in size and weight of the apparatus and to establishment of an excellent oscillating system.

Abstract: Fast head operating device for flag type die-cutting machines, comprising a hydraulic circuit with one end connected to a feed pump and the other to two cylindrical chambers defined at the base of a column supporting the head of the die-cutting machine, the hydraulic circuit comprising a control valve, equipped with a seal which slides into and is engaged in the body of the same valve to form a fluid communication between a feed conduit and a first inlet conduit, which flows into one of said cylindrical chambers for the rise of the column and with a second inlet conduit which flows into the other cylindrical chamber for the downstroke of the abovementioned column. Interposed on said first inlet conduit, a sequence valve is provided while a further fluid conduit branching from the second inlet conduit, flows into a cylindrical chamber into which a small piston slides and is engaged, carrying, at the opposite end, the mobile contact of a pressure switch connected to the electric operating device.