Progressively Cutting Patents (Class 83/636)
  • Patent number: 11858027
    Abstract: A climate control system including a heat exchanger assembly with a housing having an external air inlet, an external air outlet, an internal air inlet, and an internal air outlet. The system further includes an auxiliary air vent assembly coupled to the heat exchanger assembly. The auxiliary air vent assembly includes a rim at least partially defining an internal air inlet region and an internal air outlet region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: DANTHERM COOLING, INC.
    Inventors: Charles Richard Schmidt, Troy F. Berg
  • Patent number: 11607822
    Abstract: A cutting machine has a cutting support for material to be cut, with a vertically movable blade bar which bears a blade for cutting the cut material located thereon. A cutting drive is for vertically moving the blade bar. A blade depth adjustment is for vertically adjusting the blade bar relative to a vertically movable drive element of the cutting drive. The blade depth adjustment includes a deflection lever which is pivotably mounted about a horizontal axis on the blade bar. The drive element can be articulated thereon at a first radial distance to the horizontal axis. An adjusting mechanism may act on the deflection lever at a second radial distance to the horizontal axis, for rotating and fixing the deflection lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Krug & Priester GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Holger Jenter
  • Patent number: 11498345
    Abstract: A cutter unit includes a first frame, a fixed blade, a movable blade, a movable blade drive mechanism and a pressure mechanism. The fixed blade has a first cutting edge portion. One end portion of the movable blade has one end configured to cut a cut item in cooperation with the first cutting edge portion. The second cutting edge portion and the first cutting edge portion contacting with each other at a first point and a second point. Another end portion of the movable blade has a contacting portion in contact with the first frame at a third point. The first point, the second point and the third point define an imaginary triangle. The pressure member presses the movable blade at a pressure contact position so that the movable blade presses against the fixed blade. The pressure contact position is positioned substantially within the imaginary triangle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Mayu Shinoda
  • Patent number: 11491671
    Abstract: A spatula edge trimming apparatus for re-edging a spatula includes a base housing with the front side having a spatula receptacle slot extending through to the cavity. The bottom side has a drop aperture extending through to the cavity. The spatula receptacle slot is configured to receive a spatula. A cutter is coupled to the base housing within the cavity and is configured to cut an edge of the spatula. A drive is coupled to the top side of the base housing and is in operational communication with the cutter. A plurality of controls is coupled to the base housing and is in operational communication with the drive. A power source is coupled to the housing. The power source is in operational communication with, and provides power to, each of the drive and the plurality of controls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Inventor: Ramon Canelon
  • Patent number: 8863626
    Abstract: A nibbler assembly includes a punch and a die. The die includes a through opening formed therein, which opening has an oblong configuration as viewed along a vertical direction. The die includes an upper surface including a recess extending from an upper peripheral portion of the through opening at an upstream side of a feed direction towards the upstream of the feed direction. The recess is dented downwardly relative to other portions of the upper surface. The punch includes a blade substantially matching in shape with the through opening. The blade includes an upstream end portion in the feed direction provided with opposite corners each having an arcuate shape as viewed along the vertical direction. The punch and the die are operable to punch successive holes that at least partially overlap along the feed direction so as to form an elongated hole in a sheet material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Murata Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kohei Matsumura
  • Patent number: 8820204
    Abstract: A fixed blade support device includes a biasing member and a fixed blade support member (11). The fixed blade support member (11) includes a base surface portion (11a), an upright surface portion (11b), and a retainer portion (11c). The upright surface portion (11b) extends from the base surface portion (11a) in a biasing direction so as to close a rear side of a root portion of a fixed blade (12) on an opposite side to a blade edge portion thereof, and is configured to prevent the fixed blade (12) from being disengaged in a direction of engagement with a movable blade. The retainer portion (11c) extends from the upright surface portion (11b) so as to cover the root portion of the fixed blade (12), and is configured to prevent the fixed blade (12) from being disengaged in the biasing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation
    Inventors: Shou Yazawa, Yukio Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 8573870
    Abstract: A cutting device which carries out cutting operations in a width direction of a tape-like member, includes: a cutter operation mechanism which causes the cutting operations, a full cutting and a half cutting, to be carried out with one mechanism; and a tape discharge mechanism having a tape discharge roller which, by rotating, causes the tape-like member to move to a discharge side, wherein the tape discharge mechanism comes in conjunction with the cutter operation mechanism, and the tape discharge roller rotates only after the cutting operation at a time of the full cutting finishes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shinsaku Kosuge
  • Patent number: 8505426
    Abstract: A method, and an apparatus, for operating a hydraulic shearing machine. For cutting a shearing-movement of at least one shear blade which is curved, starting from a starting-position under application of an overall actuating-force and for resetting of the shear blades which were moved for cutting to their starting-position after accomplishment of the shearing-movement, a reset-movement under application of an overall reset-force. The shearing-movement and the reset-movement are accomplished by a hydraulic actuating-mechanism comprising hydraulic cylinders, wherein the overall actuating-force and the overall reset-force being applied to the moved shear blades by at least one hydraulic cylinder of the actuating-mechanism. The magnitude of the overall actuating-force is adjustable by switching one or several hydraulic cylinders of the actuating-mechanism in and out of operation-mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Vai Metals Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter Christoforou, Michael Trevor Clark, David Eastwood, David Stonecliffe, Shaun Tyas
  • Patent number: 8485746
    Abstract: A cutting device which carries out a cutting operation on a tape-like member in a width direction thereof, includes: a cutter operation mechanism, as well as making a cutting start position different between a full cutting and a half cutting in the cutting preparation operation, causes a cutter unit to carry out a first cutting operation, which causes the cutter unit to move in the width direction from the cutting start position to a predetermined position, and a second cutting operation, which causes the cutter unit to advance from the predetermined position to the cutting completion position in a direction approximately perpendicular to a tape surface of the tape-like member, on the tape-like member in the cutting operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shinsaku Kosuge
  • Patent number: 8393255
    Abstract: The dispenser assembly is for opening a pouch or packet structure. The dispenser assembly includes a container structure having an interior cavity. The cavity has a sufficient dimension such that the packet structure may be stored therein. The dispenser assembly includes a cutter for severing the pouch or packet structure. The cutter is secured to or removably stored in the container. The cutter may be constituted by a slider structure, guillotine cutter, or U-shaped member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: MonoSol Rx, LLC
    Inventors: Richard C. Fuisz, Joseph M. Fuisz
  • Patent number: 7984667
    Abstract: A pizza cutting apparatus and portions of the apparatus, and methods of forming the apparatus and of disassembly. The apparatus includes a simple frame assembly made from sheet metal, an actuator assembly and a cutting assembly. The cutting assembly includes a central hub, a number of attached blade and guard combinations, a shaft with a flange and an elastic band. Each blade includes two spaced apart openings, one to receive the flange and the other to be engaged by the band so as to restrain the blades mounted in the hub. Each guard includes perforations for easy gripping by an operator. A blade is removed by having the operator safely grip each guard to stretch the band so as to disengage the blade from the flange and then return and rotate the blade to disengage the blade from the band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Quantum Technical Services Inc.
    Inventor: Mark J. Freudinger
  • Publication number: 20100043609
    Abstract: A cutting apparatus for columnar items such as metal pipes has a base frame that supports a movable cutting blade. At least one blade actuator is disposed between the blade and the frame to drive the blade back and forth between retracted and extended positions. First and second arms are pivotably connected to the frame and moveable between disengaged and engaged positions. An arm actuator is associated with each arm and drives each arm between the disengaged and engaged positions. A segmented collar engages the entire circumference of the columnar item being cut. The blade is supported by the frame and the arms during the cutting process while the collar supports the material of the columnar item adjacent the cut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventor: Patrick L. Franze
  • Publication number: 20100043617
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sheet cutter that can cut the sheet cleanly without being left uncut or torn off in cutting the sheet and is cheap and very compact by reducing the thickness of a movable knife pressure welding member. The sheet cutter comprises a stationary knife including a straight blade part formed like the straight line in the longitudinal direction, a movable knife including a cutting edge part formed in the shape of V-character, opposed to mesh with the straight blade part of the stationary knife, the movable knife being able to freely move toward or back from the stationary knife, a movable knife pressure welding member for pressure welding the movable knife against the stationary knife, and movable knife driver driving the movable knife forward or backward. The movable knife pressure welding member pressure welds the movable knife against the stationary knife by means of a compression coil spring contained inside the movable knife pressure welding member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2007
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: NIPPON PRIMEX INC.
    Inventor: Hitoshi Sato
  • Patent number: 7437983
    Abstract: A trimmer producing a profiled spine in a book. The device includes a first clamp element and a second clamp element contacting the second side and an actuating device moving the first clamp element with respect to the second clamp element so as to skew the spine. A trimming blade cuts the book.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: Goss International Americas, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Andrew Burke, John Brian Duquette
  • Publication number: 20080072730
    Abstract: A cutting apparatus includes a motor, a gear set, a gliding block, a rotating shaft and a handling element. The gear set includes a first gear part connected to the motor and a second gear part connected to a protrusion member. The center line of the protrusion member is shifted from the center line of the second gear part. The gliding block includes a gliding channel for receiving the protrusion member therein. The protrusion member is linearly moved along the gliding channel back and forth when the protrusion member is rotated in a circular motion. The rotating shaft is connected to an end of the gliding block such that the rotating shaft is rotated with synchronous linear movement of the protrusion member. The handling element has a first end sheathed around the rotating shaft and a second end operated to have the cutting member linearly moved along two guiding tracks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventors: Tzu-Feng Tseng, Pei-Yuan Lee
  • Publication number: 20080072729
    Abstract: A cutting apparatus includes a cutting platform, an automatic transmission member, first and second lateral plates, a rotating shaft, a cutting member and an eccentric sustaining member. The automatic transmission member is disposed on the cutting platform. The first and second lateral plates are arranged at opposed sides of the cutting platform. The rotating shaft penetrates through two lateral plates, respectively, wherein an end of the rotating shaft is rotatably connected to a gear part of the gear set. The cutting member is movable along the first guiding track and the second guiding track. The eccentric sustaining member is sheathed around the rotating shaft and disposed above the cutting member. The eccentric sustaining member is sustained against the cutting member to transmit a linear cutting operation of the cutting member when the rotating shaft is driven by the gear part to rotate in a circular motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventor: Tzu-Feng Tseng
  • Publication number: 20070175307
    Abstract: A cutting device includes a movable blade and a stationary blade opposed to the movable blade across a sheet-like object to be cut. The movable blade is formed into a concave shape retracted inwardly from opposite end portions toward a central portion thereof. The stationary blade is formed into a straight line in parallel to the cut surface of the object. An angle of each of portions of the cutting edge on sides of the opposite end portions with respect to a cut surface of the object to be cut is larger than an angle of each of portions of the cutting edge on both sides of the central portion with respect to the cut surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventor: Akihiko Ito
  • Patent number: 7222511
    Abstract: A process of forming bend-controlling structures, such as slits, grooves or displacements (22), in a sheet of material (21, 121, 221, 321, 421, 521, 621, 721). The bend-controlling structures (22) have central portions (26) extending substantially parallel to a desired bend line (23) on the sheet and end portions (27) which diverge away from the bend line (23). In one embodiment the process includes the step of forming the bending straps (24) between pairs of slit end portions (27) at a desired spaced apart distances along the bend line (23) with the straps (24) having a desired configuration, and the step of forming central portions (26) which connect the end portions (27) to complete the slits (22) using a separate die set. A plurality of end portion dies (51/54) can be used to produce end portions (27) of various shapes and straps (24) of various widths, and a single set of central portion forming dies (71/74) are used to connect the end portions (27).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Industrial Origami, Inc.
    Inventors: Max W. Durney, Philip M. Arnold
  • Patent number: 7000521
    Abstract: The method of cutting a pleated shade to selected length, said shade having pleats retained in pleated condition between longitudinally elongated first and second retainers, that includes the steps providing a blade having a cutting edge, orienting the blade to extend laterally relative to the retainers and/or pleats, with the blade edge presented toward the first retainer at an angle to that retainer, and urging the blade in a first direction toward the first retainer so that the blade edge cuts through the first retainer progressively in a lateral and second direction, and progressively laterally through the pleats and lower retainer, the pleats and/or retainers being adjustably laterally confined, and the first retainer and pleats being clamped in said first direction at the locus of cutting, by force transmission from the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: ZipShade Industrial (B.V.I.) Corp.
    Inventors: Li-Ming Cheng, Lawrence S. Wu
  • Patent number: 6786125
    Abstract: A cutter device has a movable blade, a stationary blade, and a clutch mechanism having a driven gear mounted for undergoing rotation in clockwise and counterclockwise directions and a driving gear for rotationally driving the driven gear about a rotational axis. A cutter drive mechanism has a rotation device connected to the clutch mechanism so that through one complete rotation of the driven gear the rotation device reciprocally moves the movable blade between a first region in which the movable blade is spaced apart from the stationary blade and a second region in which the movable blade cooperates with the stationary blade to cut recording paper. A rotation regulating device regulates rotation of the driven gear in the counterclockwise direction when the movable blade is in the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: SII P & S Inc.
    Inventor: Saburou Imai
  • Publication number: 20040040431
    Abstract: The present invention is an oversized sheet of foldable paper having one or more punch outs for a standard sized ring binder and at least one cutout opening therein that allows the oversized paper to be secured in a standard sized ring binder when the oversized paper is folded at 90 degrees relative to the binding edge, and further allows the oversized paper to be unfolded for viewing without releasing a ring of the ring binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2002
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventor: Michael Anthony Davies
  • Patent number: 6681673
    Abstract: An apparatus for cutting a window covering including a head rail, a bottom rail and slats includes a base having a substantially flat cutting surface, and a frame overlying the cutting surface. The base includes a clamping assembly for securing the window covering atop the cutting surface with the bottom rail, slats and top rail in a side-by-side arrangement over the cutting surface. The apparatus includes a cutting assembly having a cutting blade with a cutting edge for sliding along a movement axis having a first component of movement extending in a direction substantially parallel to the cutting surface and a second component of movement extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to the cutting surface. A driver is connected with the cutting assembly for moving the cutting blade toward the cutting surface, wherein the cutting edge simultaneously cuts through the bottom rail, the slats and the head rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Springs Window Fashions LP
    Inventors: Darrell J. Kutchmarek, Richard L. Seiders
  • Publication number: 20030146232
    Abstract: A ticket vending machine includes a face panel defining a ticket passageway and a ticket outlet at one end of the ticket passageway, a side plate mounted with an axle for holding a ticket roll, a sheet-transfer cylinder assembly controlled to transfer the continuous ticket sheet of the ticket roll to the ticket outlet, a cutting unit disposed between the sheet-transfer cylinder assembly and the ticket passageway and controlled to reciprocate a cutting plate and to cut off the continuous ticket sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2002
    Publication date: August 7, 2003
    Inventor: Wen-Fu Yang
  • Patent number: 6557446
    Abstract: Diagnostic strips of the kind which are exposed to biological fluids such as blood or urine to detect or monitor medical conditions are cut sequentially from elongated cards by a reciprocating shear blade. The cards may be ones which exhibit defective areas that should not be included in the finished strips. Blade motion seats each newly cut strip on a movable strip carrier which abuts the blade during the cutting operation. The carrier then travels a nondefective strip to a pickup location where it is precisely positioned and picked off of the carrier for emplacement in a housing. A strip with a defective area is carried further to a discharge location where it is released into a waste receptacle. This enables more economical manufacture of diagnostic strips by efficiently making use of nondefective areas of cards that have defective areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: Kinematic Automation, Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Carlberg, Ford Garratt, Ted Meigs
  • Publication number: 20030079585
    Abstract: A cutter mechanism for use in a printer. The cutter mechanism includes a base and a cutter blade slidably fixed relative to the base. The cutter blade is movable along a cutting path in a first direction between a retracted position and a forward position through a cutting position. A breaker bar is fixed relative to the cutter blade, and is spaced from the cutter blade when the cutter blade is in the retracted position to define a web path between the breaker bar and the base. A first biasing member urges the blade in a second direction away from the breaker bar to completely disengage the blade from the breaker bar. The second direction is not parallel to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2001
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Inventors: Richard L. Carriere, Kevin L. Wilken
  • Patent number: 6447187
    Abstract: Disclosed is a printer having: a fixed chassis mounted thereon; a moving chassis being engageable with the fixed chassis between an open position and a closed position; a cutter including a fixed blade and a moving blade; a paper drive roll; a thermal head; and driving means driving the paper drive roll to subject paper rolling along a paper path formed between the thermal head and the paper drive roll, and the fixed blade and moving blade; wherein the thermal head is in a path of the paper drive roll and wherein the moving blade urges the fixed blade towards the fixed chassis when the moving chassis is at the closed position, and a restraining module for maintaining an appropriate gap between the fixed blade and the moving blade when the moving chassis is engaging the fixed chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: XAC Automation Corporation
    Inventor: Carl Wesley Robinson
  • Patent number: 6443042
    Abstract: An apparatus for forming notches on the edge of a slat; e.g. a wood slat. The apparatus includes a feeding station to feed a slat to a punching station that locates the slat along a longitudinal edge and a leading edge of the slat. A stripper plate positively locates the slat within the punch prior to the notches being punched. A pair of punches having a beveled region with a v-shaped cutout are used to form the lift hole notches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Newell Operating Company
    Inventors: Thomas A. Caputo, Thomas Buttitta, Richard L. Scott
  • Patent number: 6439093
    Abstract: In one aspect, the present invention is an oversized sheet of paper having one or more punch outs for a standard sized ring binder and at least one cutout opening therein that allows the oversized paper to be secured in a standard sized ring binder when the oversized paper is folded at 90 degrees relative to the binding edge, and further allows the oversized paper to be unfolded for viewing without releasing a ring of the ring binder. In another aspect, the present invention comprises paper punches and cutting devices, operable by a user, which make at least one cutout in an oversized sheet of paper that allows the oversized paper to be secured in a standard sized ring binder when the oversized paper is folded, at 90 degrees relative to the binding edge, and further allows the oversized paper to be unfolded for viewing without releasing a ring of a ring binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Inventor: Michael Anthony Davies
  • Patent number: 6431037
    Abstract: The present invention is a method of cutting an imaging element. An imaging element is moved through a cutting zone formed by a first cutting blade having a first cutting surface and a first engaging surface and a second cutting blade having a second cutting surface and a second engaging surface. In the cutting zone the first engaging surface and the second engaging surface are in contact for a distance greater than or equal to a thickness of the imaging element. The first cutting surface and said second cutting surface are separated by from 1 to 30 percent of the thickness of the imaging element in the cutting zone. The present invention reduces debris and skiving generation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Chi-An Dai, Andy H. Tsou, Stephen C. Meissner
  • Publication number: 20020092398
    Abstract: A cutting device for plate materials relatively transfers a plate material and cutter blades and cuts the plate material with a cutting portion of the cutter blades. The cutting portion is provided with a plurality of projecting cutter blades. The plurality of projecting cutter blades are separately disposed at fixed intervals in the direction which the plate material is transferred to the cutter blades and gradually projected larger toward the direction in which the plate material advances. The plurality of projecting cutter blades have inclined cutting edges which are acute cutting edges for cutting the plate material in such a manner as to be gradually inserted deeper into the plate material transferred to the cutter blades. The inclined cutting edges are inclined toward the direction in which the plate material is transferred so as to be gradually inserted deeper into the plate material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2000
    Publication date: July 18, 2002
    Inventors: Takeo Kawano, Yasuo Hakamada
  • Patent number: 6418826
    Abstract: A slicing apparatus for dividing a compression-molded article of laminae is provided with a dividing knife that reciprocates within a horizontal plane, and the dividing knife has a cutting edge in the shape of a V directed toward the compression-molded article, and cuts into the compression-molded article while holding the article from both sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Suzuki, Yoshihiro Yamazaki, Koji Shimada
  • Patent number: 6405625
    Abstract: A printer is provided with a cutter for cutting recording paper in arbitrary lengths or cutting recording paper with a part left after cutting. A pair of movable blades, at least one of which is displaced in a direction approximately orthogonal to the paper path, are driven in a cooperative relationship to effect a cutting operation with a fixed blade. The dispersion of force required for tearing off the cut recording paper is reduced, a torn trace of a left part after cutting the recording paper looks nice, and the position of a left part after cutting the recording paper can be arbitrarily set respectively without increasing the size in the direction of the recording paper width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Akio Nomura, Keiji Murakoshi
  • Publication number: 20020056354
    Abstract: There is provided a printer comprising: a fixed cutting edge; and a movable cutting edge that moves toward the fixed cutting edge over a predetermined cut moving range from a cut starting position to a cut ending position, thereby to cut paper in cooperation with the fixed cutting edge. In this printer, the fixed cutting edge can move between a fixed-cutting edge mount position at which it is possible to cut the paper in cooperation with the movable cutting edge and a fixed-cutting edge dismount position at which it is not possible to cut the paper in cooperation with the movable cutting edge. When the fixed cutting edge is at the fixed-cutting edge mount position, the movable cutting edge can move between a movable-cutting edge cut position, at which movement of the fixed cutting edge toward the fixed-cutting edge dismount position is not permitted, and a movable-cutting edge non-cut position, at which movement of the fixed cutting edge toward the fixed-cutting edge dismount position is permitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2001
    Publication date: May 16, 2002
    Applicant: Citizen Watch Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji Morita, Makoto Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 6360643
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a shear blade assembly for a shearing system. The shear blade assembly includes an upper shear blade and a lower shear blade. The top surface of the lower shear blade is inclined downwardly at an angle of between 0.2 and 0.5 degrees to the horizontal. The bottom surface of the upper shear blade is raked relative to the horizontal, longitudinally of the blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Littell International, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth C. Johnson, Christopher A. Zurek
  • Patent number: 6264456
    Abstract: An apparatus for cutting an indefinite length suture strand to uniform lengths for subsequent threading and swaging to a surgical needle includes a drawing tower having at least one guide member defining a drawing axis parallel thereto. First and second gripping devices are provided to grip the indefinite length suture strand and draw it along the drawing axis; each gripping device mounted for reciprocal movement on at least one guide member. A retractable cutter for cutting the indefinite length suture strand is also provided for cutting the strand at a start position along the drawing axis. The indefinite length suture strand is fed to the drawing axis and drawn a predetermined distance beyond the location of the retractable cutter for positioning within a suture receiving opening formed in the surgical needle, while the second gripping device reciprocates to a start position along the drawing axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Inventors: David Demarest, Timothy Lenihan, William Rattan
  • Patent number: 6240824
    Abstract: A blind cutting machine including a working bench, a mold, a blade tool mechanism, a power mechanism and a restriction mechanism. The working bench is formed with an escape slot and a middle portion of the working bench is marked with scales. The mold is L-shaped. An upper end of the vertical section of the mold is formed with a forward extending outer slide rail and three perforations with different profiles in accordance with the profiles of the weight board, slat and upper beam of the blind. A horizontal section of the mold is formed with several thread holes. The blade tool mechanism includes a weight board blade tool, a slat blade tool, an upper beam blade tool and two pull bar assemblies. The power mechanism includes an eccentric wheel, a pivot shaft, a handle, two locating seats, a linkage assembly and a pulley. The restriction mechanism includes a thread rod, a restriction bar, two support members and a crank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Ching Feng /Blinds Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: P. S. Hsu
  • Patent number: 6152007
    Abstract: A sheet cutter has a fixed blade and a movable blade. The fixed blade has a straight edge extending in a lateral direction with respect to a longitudinal direction of a sheet to be cut, and the movable blade is provided so as to be moved in the longitudinal direction. The movable blade has an edge on a side of a blade end portion extending in a direction making a first angle with the straight edge of the fixed blade. The edge of the movable blade is pressed against the edge of the fixed blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Assignee: Japan CBM Corporation
    Inventor: Hitoshi Sato
  • Patent number: 6148708
    Abstract: A cutting device for strip stock includes a stationary blade and a motor-driven, movable blade that continuously contacts against the stationary blade, constituting a point of support. Two other points of support for the movable blade are equally spaced from the cutting edge of the blade and from the sides of the blade. The other two supporting points also function as blade drive points for moving the blade in a reciprocating manner. The drive points are connected to an output shaft of the motor through a gear assembly. A pair of ball bearings on each side of the blade, which are laterally spaced from each other on each respective side of the blade, cooperate with the blade to achieve a very low friction for the device during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Hengstler GmbH
    Inventor: Horst Pfeiffer
  • Patent number: 6109154
    Abstract: A sheet cutter cuts a portion of a continuous sheet, discharged through a gap between a pair of moving and stationary knives respectively having arc-shaped and straight knife edges. A motor rotates a pair of rotatable, identical gear wheels engaged with each other and opposed to the moving knife and having a pair of respective link arms thereon. Each link arm has a first end connected to a peripheral position of the respective gear wheel by a pivot thereon and a second end connected to the moving knife by a pin inserted into a respective one of a pair of horizontally extending slits in the moving knife.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Fujitsu Takamisawa Component Limited
    Inventors: Keiji Miyatsu, Yukihiro Mori, Masami Ishizawa
  • Patent number: 6058821
    Abstract: Apparatus for cutting an indefinite length suture to uniform lengths for subsequent threading and swaging to surgical needles includes a drawing tower having first and second guide members defining a drawing axis parallel thereto. First and second grippers are provided to grip the indefinite length suture and to alternately draw it along the drawing axis, with each gripper being mounted for reciprocal movement along a guide member. Each gripper alternately grips the suture and draws it a distance beyond the location of a cutter assembly while the other gripper reciprocates to a start position before the cutter assembly. A tipping assembly heats a predetermined small length of the suture to stiffen the suture thereat after subsequent cooling, in preparation for cutting the suture thereat and inserting a stiffened lead cut end of the suture into an end of a needle for swaging thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Ethicon, Inc.
    Inventors: David D. Demarest, John F. Blanch, Timothy Lenihan
  • Patent number: 5974929
    Abstract: The invention provides a device for cutting open envelopes and punching filing holes into documents, and includes a body coupled to a base, the base having a two-section feeding surface along which an envelope, or other one or more documents are introduced into the device. The base is provided with a slot extending across the base, and a cutting blade having at least one cutting edge and being slidably guided in the slot, at least a portion of an edge of the slot in the base serving as stationary counter-edge to the cutting blade. At least two hole punches are slidably guided in a first section of the body; a corresponding member of cutting die holes are located in the body. A pressure-applying handle is hingedly articulated to the body for causing both the cutting blade and the hole punches to move towards the two-section feeding surface. First and second restoring springs respectively cause the cutting blade and the punches to move away from the feeding surface when the pressure-applying handle is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: D.G.D Haifa Ltd.
    Inventors: Ofer Kugel, Eliahu Doron
  • Patent number: 5967012
    Abstract: The invention features implementation of a flat triangular blade which has wo cutting edges and a sharp point. The blade is caused to move pointwise across a cylindrical can's diameter, with the plane of the blade perpendicular to the can's axis, so that the point pierces the can, the two cutting edges slice through the can in both directions around the can's circumference, and the point again, diametrically oppositely, pierces the can. The inventive removal of the residual contents and propellants from a spent aerosol can is optimally effective, because the invention divides the can into two separate parts, concomitantly subdividing the can's internal components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: David L. Dummer, Jack L. McCrea, Roy Jay Maloney
  • Patent number: 5943933
    Abstract: A cutting mechanism for accurately cutting a notch in a piece of edging, to permit sharp bending of the piece of edging for a picture or plaque, is disclosed. The cutting mechanism comprises a jig secured to a base member, the jig being dimensioned to receive the piece of edging clamped thereto. A cutting blade is mounted on the base member for reciprocating movement between a first retracted position whereat the cutting blade is remote from the jig and a second fully extended position whereat the cutting edge has passed through the jig. The cutting blade has an inverted "V"-shaped cutting edge comprising two blade portions joined one to the other at a central vertex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Inventors: Murray Evans, Thomas Thomas
  • Patent number: 5922169
    Abstract: A system for applying linerless labels to mailing items includes a label feeder for feeding a continuous length web of linerless label material from a supply roll through a loop path to a label applying station juxtaposed to the path traversed by mailing items conveyed on edge in sequential fashion by a belt conveyor. The label material passes through a web guide and advance assembly to a cutter station operative to sever the label material transversely and create labels of desired height. A paddle member is operative to engage and hold each successive label as it is being severed from the label material web generally simultaneously to adhere the adhesive side of the label against a mailing items passing through the label applying station. The various operating functions of the linerless label applying system may be coordinated by conventional control logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Assignee: Bell & Howell Postal Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Chodacki, Jose Pioquinto, Gary VanderSyde, David Haas, K. George Rabindran
  • Patent number: 5809856
    Abstract: Products (2) made of paper or similar materials are cut along predetermined cutting lines in a drawing cut between crossed knife edges while being conveyed continuously in a dense conveying stream in which their main surfaces are orientated substantially perpendicular to the conveying direction (v). For this purpose a counter knife (1) with a guide edge (11) is allocated to each product (2) and the products (2) together with the counter knives (1) are conveyed past at least one cutting knife (5) with a cutting edge (51) having two ends, whereby the cutting edge (51) of the cutting knife (5) substantially lies in the plain formed by the guide edges (11) of the counter knives (1) and forms a cutting angle (.alpha.) with the guide edges (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: Ferag AG
    Inventors: Walter Reist, Rudolf Infanger
  • Patent number: 5740713
    Abstract: A notch cutter provides a first pair of inwardly facing shear edges in a V. A second pair of outwardly facing shear edges make an almost complementary V with a slightly smaller convergence angle. One pair of shear edges is caused to contact respective ones of the other pair along contact points moving from the entrance of the notch to the apex of the notch. One pair of shear edges is resiliently mounted relative to the other. When used to separate strips and form the ends of the separated strips, the V's of the first and second edge pairs may be truncated since the shear edges need only be wider than the strips on which they act to form their separating and edge shaping functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1998
    Inventor: Lothar Korb
  • Patent number: 5740687
    Abstract: A forming apparatus for forming a selected profile in a sheet of material includes a frame, a sheet drive to advance the sheet of material through the frame, a drive assembly for powering the sheet drive, forming rollers to configure the sheet into the desired profile and a shear assembly to cut the formed sheet into desired lengths. The sheet drive includes pairs of coacting rollers with each pair comprising a driven roller connected to the drive assembly and a free-wheeling roller that is adjustably mounted relative to its associated driven roller. The shear assembly has a housing that movably mounts a pair of opposed blade mounts that have facing channels which receive lateral edges of a blade. These channels are wider than the blade thickness so that the blade freely floats and is thus self-aligning between dies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1998
    Assignee: New Tech Machinery Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce E. Meyer, David H. Cunningham, Ronald W. Shell
  • Patent number: 5613416
    Abstract: In a punching tool having a punch body (23), a punch driver (33) integral with the punch body, a punch head (45) disposed over the punch driver and struck by a striker (59), a punch guide (15) for guiding the punch body, a stripper plate (17) disposed under the punch guide, and a stripping spring (51) interposed between the punch guide (15) and the punch driver (33), the punching tool further includes a first damping member (39) interposed between the punch guide (15) and the punch driver (33) so as to be elastically deformable within a predetermined deflection value. Owing to the presence of the first damping member (39), it is possible to reduce noise generated when the punch body (23) is returned upward by a strong urging force of the stripping spring (51) after work has been punched, thus reducing overall noise generated during punching processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1997
    Assignee: Amada Metrecs Company, Limited
    Inventor: Oriya Fujita
  • Patent number: 5584218
    Abstract: A cutting device having blades with V-shaped cutting edges and shaped to cause the blade centers to deviate from a vertical plane. One blade is reciprocated. The outer ends of each blade have sliding projections engaging marginal portions of outer surfaces of the other blade so that the cutting edges are drawn toward and cross-over one another during cutting, whereby the blades increasingly move from their bent shape toward a planar shape. The blade edges cut a web from both outer edges toward the center, the center portion of the web being cut last. The blades resume their V-shaped configuration when moved to the open position. By limiting the stroke of the moving blade, the center portion of the web being cut remains uncut. The blades have support frames holding one end of the blades fixed while the opposite ends of the blades are permitted to slide to accommodate movement of one end of the blades which are elongated as they flatten.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1996
    Assignee: Hecon Corporation
    Inventor: Rudolph Schoendienst
  • Patent number: RE40605
    Abstract: An apparatus for cutting a window covering including a head rail, a bottom rail and slats includes a base having a substantially flat cutting surface, and a frame overlying the cutting surface. The base includes a clamping assembly for securing the window covering atop the cutting surface with the bottom rail, slats and top rail in a side-by-side arrangement over the cutting surface. The apparatus includes a cutting assembly having a cutting blade with a cutting edge for sliding along a movement axis having a first component of movement extending in a direction substantially parallel to the cutting surface and a second component of movement extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to the cutting surface. A driver is connected with the cutting assembly for moving the cutting blade toward the cutting surface, wherein the cutting edge simultaneously cuts through the bottom rail, the slats and the head rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Springs Window Fashions, LLC
    Inventors: Darrell J. Kutchmarek, Richard L. Seiders