Disc Type Patents (Class 83/676)
  • Patent number: 11911925
    Abstract: A method is provided for automatically adjusting a cutting gap of a slicing machine for slicing strand-shaped product calibers from a food product into slices, wherein the slicing machine includes a blade motor for driving a blade about a blade axis, wherein the blade has a peripheral cutting edge which defines a blade plane, and a cutting frame with a counter edge for cooperation with the cutting edge. Under control by a controller and without contact of the blade to the food product to be cut, the method comprises: a) moving the blade along the blade axis in an approach direction to approach the cutting frame until contact with the cutting frame, b) stopping the approach movement of the blade, and c) moving the blade back in a spacing direction by a distance corresponding to a desired size of the cutting gap, measured in a direction of the blade axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Multivac Sepp Haggenmueller SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Albert Hartmann, Alexander Kast
  • Patent number: 11897044
    Abstract: A fine adjuster for finely adjusting the lateral tilt position of a cutting machine body has improved operability. A cutting machine includes a table, a cutting machine body, a tilting member supporting the cutting machine body in a manner laterally tiltable relative to the table, a tilting locking member, and a lever member to adjust the tilt position of the cutting machine body. The lever member includes a fulcrum coupled to the table in a manner rotatable about an axis, a load point coupled to the tilting member, and an effort point extending from the fulcrum and located at a distance from the fulcrum greater than a distance between the fulcrum and the load point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukinori Suzuki, Toshiyuki Kani
  • Patent number: 11890773
    Abstract: In order to prevent slices separated from a product caliber by a slicer from adhering temporarily to a cutting surface of a blade and not coming to rest on the desired position on a base when the slices are ejected, the arrangement of one or more recesses in the blade back facing away from the product caliber is suggested in a specific way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Multivac Sepp Haggenmueller SE & Co., KG
    Inventors: Dominic Koch, Oliver Mueller
  • Patent number: 11864693
    Abstract: A blender blade formed of titanium or titanium alloy is described herein. The blender blade comprises a central portion and one or more blade wings extending therefrom. Each blade wing comprises a leading edge, wherein the leading edge is work hardened to cause the leading edge to have a first hardness which is harder than a second hardness of the central portion. The central portion is in an annealed condition. The first hardness is in a range of about 40-50 HRC, the second hardness is in a range of about 20-30 HRC. Subsequent to work hardening, the leading edge can undergo nitriding and/or layer deposition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: All Metal Sales, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas G. Klocker
  • Patent number: 11701724
    Abstract: A cutting blade for a clearing saw includes a plurality of teeth, with at least some of the teeth having a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a point in between the leading and trailing edges. The trailing edge can be hardened to a depth in the range 0.02-1.5 mm, and the leading edge may be left unhardened to provide a cutting blade with increased durability and efficiency, that can still be filed manually to remain sharp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: HUSQVARNA AB
    Inventor: Albin Hagberg
  • Patent number: 11633821
    Abstract: A cutting apparatus includes a cutting unit that has a spindle with an annular cutting blade mounted to a tip part of the spindle through a blade mount, and a determining unit. The determining unit has a second flow path that is connected to a first flow path in a mounter of the blade mount for causing a negative or positive pressure to act on the first flow path, a measuring device that obtains a measured value of at least one of a pressure and a flow rate in the second flow path, and a screw-engaged state determining section that determines that a screw-engaged state of a fixed nut with a boss section of the mounter where the cutting blade is disposed is defective in a case where the measured value when the negative or positive pressure acts on the first flow path indicates an abnormal value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kuniharu Izumi, Zhibo Su
  • Patent number: 10820462
    Abstract: A system and method cuts and increases surface area of surface stubble material while contemporaneously mulching, tiling and aerating the soil. A discoidal coulter blade is configured with sharpened areas at the circumference for cutting the surface stubble as well as reducing the downward pressure required for the blade to enter the type and depth of soil desired. The sharpened areas include a first long bevel, a second shorter bevel and an optional opposite counter bevel. The first and second bevels aid in coulter blade lifespan ensuring a self-sharpened blade while the counter-bevel allows mating with a second coulter blade at a sharpened point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Prescription Tillage Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Richard L. Christie, Ryan J. K. Christie, John D. Nance
  • Patent number: 10562117
    Abstract: A cutting apparatus and the method of operating same is provided. The apparatus includes a feed tower assembly configured to be attached to an object and a frame assembly movably attached thereto. The frame assembly has arm assemblies thereon which accept a cutting member. A liquid spray system is provided for cooling components of the cutting apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Kenneth R. Pierce, Michael W. Gearhart, Jeffrey M. Swiatowy, Mark W. Wozniak
  • Patent number: 9775286
    Abstract: A disk for vertically cutting grass surfaces, the disk includes a center plate mountable to a shaft and a plurality of teeth extending from a circumferential edge of the center plate. Each tooth comprises a base extending from the circumferential edge of the center plate and at least one blade extending from the base at an offset angle. Each blade includes a neck extending from the base at the offset angle, and a tip extending radially outward from the neck relative to a center plane of the center plate such that the tip is offset from the center plane. The tip also extends from the neck at a yaw angle relative to the center plane such that when the disk is rotated about a rotational axis of the shaft a leading edge of the tip rotates in a different rotational plane than a trailing edge of the tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
    Inventors: Ramya Mahalingam, Robert James Pilon, Jr., James Christopher Fox
  • Patent number: 9550534
    Abstract: A framework such as a vehicle body is disclosed and includes at least two components of materials with different heat expansion coefficients fastened to one another on an elongated overlap zone. The overlap zone on a first component is subdivided by weak points oriented in its transverse direction into portions following one another in longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Marcus Lange
  • Patent number: 9517571
    Abstract: A circular cutting blade is configured for cutting meat when turned about a rotation axis in a predetermined cutting direction. The cutting blade has a peripheral blade edge defined between the first and second sides and a plurality of circumferentially disposed cutting knives. Each cutting knife includes first and second knife sides and an arcuate knife edge that constitutes a portion of the peripheral blade edge. Each knife edge rises, relative to the rotation axis, between a first blade-edge location corresponding to a minor blade radius and a second blade-edge location corresponding to a major blade radius and further includes beveled primary and secondary knife-edge portions along which the first and second knife sides mutually converge at, respectively, a first bevel angle and a second bevel angle less acute than the first bevel angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: HYDE TOOLS, INC.
    Inventors: Eric C. Wilhelm, Richard M. Clemence, William Hill, Richard N. Cloutier
  • Patent number: 9204588
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for cutting and increasing surface area of surface stubble material while contemporaneously cutting and aerating the soil. A discoidal coulter blade is configured with a plurality of circumferential teeth for cutting the surface stubble as well as reducing the downward pressure required for the blade to enter the type and depth of soil desired. The circular coulter blade is configured with a plurality of inserts oriented normal to the rotational movement of the blade as the blade cuts the soil. Each insert is shaped to aerate a specific type of soil anticipated by an operator. The inserts are positioned on the blade for desired impact with the soil and angled in placement on the blade to maintain the desired effect on the soil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Prescription Tillage Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Richard L. Christie, Daniel D. Schuler, James L. Wheat
  • Publication number: 20150135926
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a cutting blade that is rotatably drivable and provided for machines for slicing food products, in particular high-speed slicers. With the aid of a mounting area surrounding a rotary shaft, the cutting blade is fixed to a drive shaft of the machine. A distance area is provided outside the mounting area but inside the cutting edge area. The disclosure aims at improving the cutting blade with respect to its stability and configuring it such that it has the lowest possible weight. For this purpose, alternately recessed and raised formations are provided in the distance area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: Weber Maschinenbau GmbH Breidenbach
    Inventors: Guenther Weber, Gerd Lischinski, Carsten Reinsch, Steffen Martens, Ulrich Pasel
  • Publication number: 20150090090
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting or punching tool (9) which is formed from several material layers (14, 15) and carries a tool blade or a tool sleeve, wherein the tool blade or the tool sleeve tapers in a direction of the cutting edge (12) in the region of a bevel (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: WEIL ENGINEERING GMBH
    Inventor: Anton Jere
  • Publication number: 20150068380
    Abstract: A log saw machine includes a first arm, a second arm parallel to the first arm, a shaft having a first end and an opposite second end, and a circular knife fixed on the shaft. The first end of the shaft is rotatably installed on the first arm. The second end of the shaft is rotatably installed on the second arm. The circular knife is positioned between the first and second arms, and the plane of the circular knife is parallel to the extending direction of the first and second arms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: UNIVERSAL TISSUE TECHNOLOGY SRL
    Inventor: BERTOLI BARSOTTI GIOVANNI
  • Patent number: 8973478
    Abstract: A saw blade (4) for a machine operating with adjacent saw teeth traveling in two opposite and parallel directions comprises a blade substrate, teeth (16), and tooth necks (30) formed at the periphery of the substrate for holding the teeth (16) in place. Each tooth neck (30) has a protection surface (34), which is located in a plane that is parallel to the plane of the blade substrate (8), for protecting the tooth (16) against impact with any part of said adjacent saw blade. Each tooth (16) is located on the respective neck (30) in such a way that the tooth (16) is displaced from the protection surface (34) and from the adjacent saw blade in a direction normal to the plane of the protection surface (34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Indocean Diamond Tools Limited
    Inventor: Hans Ericsson
  • Publication number: 20150021099
    Abstract: Cutting members including a body including a first surface, a second surface spaced from the first surface and extending in a plane substantially aligned with the first surface, a leading surface extending between the first surface and the second surface, the leading surface extending in a plane transverse to the first surface and the second surface, and an attaching surface distal the leading surface, the attaching surface extending between the first surface and the second surface and a plurality of abrasive elements integrated in the body. In some examples, the cutting member is configured as a cylindrical drill bit and the abrasive elements are aligned transverse the leading surface. In some further examples, the cutting member is configured as a circular disk and the abrasive elements are aligned transverse the first surface and the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventor: Neil Shaw
  • Publication number: 20150000483
    Abstract: A cutting blade, which is useable for cutting a reinforcing strip into reinforcing plies, includes one or more notches disposed at given intervals. When a volume of rubber separating two reinforcing threads is cut by the cutting blade, bridges of rubber are left between a rear edge of a first reinforcing ply and a front edge of a second reinforcing ply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicants: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Thierry Ducros, Stéphane Ravat, Michel Deboeuf
  • Publication number: 20140345434
    Abstract: A circular blade for slicing machines, particularly for slicing machines of the industrial type, which comprises a substantially disk-like central body and a peripheral annular body, which is integrally connected to a perimetric edge of the central body and forms a cutting edge of the blade. The peripheral annular body is harder than the central body and the central body has a plurality of radial stiffening ribs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventor: Gaetano SCATTOLIN
  • Patent number: 8726777
    Abstract: A cutting wheel is provided for cutting a liquid crystal panel. The cutting wheel is disc shaped and includes a plurality of grooves disposed along an edge of the cutting wheel and cutting portions formed between the grooves. A pattern having a predetermined period is formed by multiple grooves and cutting portions. The grooves in each period have the same or different widths and depths and the cutting portions have probe shapes or cutting blades of different lengths. The cutting wheel is applied to dummy areas of the glass substrates forming the liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Soung-Yeoul Eom
  • Patent number: 8707840
    Abstract: An apparatus for slicing food products includes a product feed, at least one cutting blade which rotates about a blade axis and/or revolves about a center axis and to which at least one product to be sliced can be fed in a product feed direction and a blade holder to which the cutting blade can be attached. An adjustment device is configured to deform the cutting blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Weber Maschinenbau GmbH Breidenbach
    Inventor: Gürther Weber
  • Patent number: 8701536
    Abstract: A saw blade includes a circular core having a plurality of cutting elements along its periphery, and a central arbor hole. One or more offset gullets extend radially inward from the perimeter of the core. Each offset gullet includes a first opening in one side of the core and a second opening in the other side of the core. The first and second openings are adjacent but at least partially offset from one another, so that at least a portion of the offset gullet is not see-through.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignees: Saint-Gobain Abrasives, Inc., Saint-Gobain Abrasifs
    Inventor: Andre R. G. Heyen
  • Publication number: 20140013916
    Abstract: A slitting tool configured for fine-tuning thereof includes basic body, which in turn includes a body portion and a cutting portion extending therefrom. The slitting tool includes a biasing screw which is seated in a biasing bore and is configured to adjust the position of the cutting portion. The biasing screw is configured to engage a biasing surface of the body portion to adjust the cutting portion's position. The biasing surface is oblique relative to the biasing screw for retarding movement of the biasing screw a fine-tuned position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventor: Shimon Athad
  • Patent number: 8584567
    Abstract: A saw blade (4) for a machine operating with adjacent saw teeth traveling in two opposite and parallel directions comprises a blade substrate, teeth (16), and tooth necks (30) formed at the periphery of the substrate for holding the teeth (16) in place. Each tooth neck (30) has a protection surface (34), which is located in a plane that is parallel to the plane of the blade substrate (8), for protecting the tooth (16) against impact with any part of said adjacent saw blade. Each tooth (16) is located on the respective neck (30) in such a way that the tooth (16) is displaced from the protection surface (34) and from the adjacent saw blade in a direction normal to the plane of the protection surface (34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Indocean Diamond Tools Limited
    Inventor: Hans Ericsson
  • Publication number: 20130269498
    Abstract: In some cases a composite cutting blade includes one or more cutting segments along a periphery of a hub segment. According to an example, the hub segment and the one or more cutting segments can comprise the same or different porous material. A metallurgical bond between the one or more cutting segments and the hub segment is created by a metal which infiltrates the porous material of both segments. The one or more cutting segments also include a cutting material which at least partially defines a cutting edge and/or a cutting surface of each cutting segment extending along the periphery of the composite blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Adam R. Loukus, Josh E. Loukus, David M. Somero, Niel S. Somero, Nathan K. Somero, David W. Somero
  • Patent number: 8549973
    Abstract: A rotating blade for a cutting machine. The blade defines an arbor hole for an arbor typically having at least three sides. The preferred arbor hole includes first and second sides each of which conform to adjacent sides of the arbor, a short side joining the first and second sides, a third side connected to the first side, and a fourth side connecting the third side to the second side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Inventor: Michael Patrick Burke
  • Patent number: 8544373
    Abstract: A saw blade includes a saw blade body having a first face, a second face opposing the first face, and an axis of rotation extending between the first face and the second face. The saw blade includes a cutting element disposed about an outer periphery of the saw blade body. The saw blade includes a spline arbor interface portion disposed about an inner periphery of the saw blade body and having a peripheral face defining an eye disposed substantially collinearly with the axis of rotation of the saw blade body. The saw blade body defines a relief portion extending along at least a portion of an edge between the peripheral face of the spline arbor interface portion and at least one of the first face and the second face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Simonds International Corporation
    Inventor: Robert Howe
  • Patent number: 8495938
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a displacement unit, serving to create a translational displacement movement of a cutting head of a cutting machine, particularly a slicer for slicing food products, wherein the head can be attached to the displacement unit. The displacement unit has a housing assembly and an actuator disposed in the housing assembly, the actuator comprising a stationary part in the displacement direction, and a part displaceable in relation to the stationary part in the displacement direction, for carrying out the displacement movement. The displacement unit further has at least one bearing that is attached to the housing assembly and is elastically deformable in the displacement direction, the displaceable part engaging on this bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Weber Maschinenbau GmbH Breidenbach
    Inventor: Guenther Weber
  • Publication number: 20130108888
    Abstract: A cutting tool having a metallic glass thin film (MGTF) coated thereon, a metallic glass cutting tool, and methods of fabricating the same are disclosed. The cutting tool having metallic glass thin film coated thereon comprises: a cutting element having a sharpened portion, and the cutting element is made of metal; and a metallic glass thin film coated on the cutting element, and the metallic glass is represented by the following formula 1 or formula 2, (ZraCubNicAld)100-xSix,??[formula 1] wherein 45=<a=<75, 25=<b=<35, 5=<c=<15, 5=<d=<15, 0.1=<x=<10, (ZreCufAggAlh)100-ySiy,??[formula 2] 35=<e=<55, 35=<f=<55, 5=<g=<15, 5=<h=<15, 0.1=<y=<10. The metallic glass cutting tool of the present invention comprises: a cutting element having a sharpened portion, and the cutting element is made of a metallic glass represented by the above formula 1 or formula 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventors: Jason Shiang Ching JANG, Pei Hua TSAI, Jia Bin LI, Yu Ze Lin, Chih Chiang FU, Jinn P. CHU
  • Patent number: 8424436
    Abstract: A cutting blade for machines for slicing food products, particularly for high-speed slicers, has a sickle-shaped blade rotating about a rotation axis during the slicing operation and has a cutting edge that deviates from a circular shape at the radially outer circumference thereof and revolves about the rotation axis, particularly in the manner of a spiral. The edge is positioned in a cutting plane extending perpendicular to the rotation axis, and the cutting edge forms the radially outer end of a cutting surface, which forms part of the blade back side facing away from a product to be sliced during the slicing operation and includes a blade angle together with the cutting plane. The size of the blade angle varies in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Weber Maschinenbau GmbH Breidenbach
    Inventor: Guenther Weber
  • Publication number: 20130025429
    Abstract: A tool has disks or ring disks arranged for metal-cutting, which are stacked on top of each other in an overlapping fashion and engage into each other at their incisions which reach from the outer circumference up to the center point of the disks or the inner circumference of the ring disks. The incisions of the directly adjacent disks or ring disks are respectively angularly offset by 360°/n, with n being the number of the disks or ring disks. A production method is also provided for such a tool, in which the disks or ring disks are incised up to the center point or inner circumference, are completely slid into each other at the incisions, folded towards one another and displaced until an angular offset of the incisions of 360°/n is produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: GERD EISENBLAETTER GMBH
    Inventor: Gerd EISENBLAETTER
  • Patent number: 8347873
    Abstract: A heat reducing slot that is part of a saw blade that includes tips that will house carbide or other tips that are to be attached through a torch or induction. Heat reducing slots repeat for each tip on the perimeter of a blade that will be treated with high heat. For each tip, there is a general area defined near the seat and groove of the tip. In this general area a slot is inserted that has the effect of reducing the amount of heat needed to be applied to the blade for the attachment of carbide or other tips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Western Saw
    Inventors: Anthony Baratta, Kevin Baron, Kraig Baron
  • Patent number: 8333182
    Abstract: An improved slot for a circular saw blade that reduces thermal cracking that occurs during the use of the blade. The slot extends from the peripheral edge of the blade in a vertical direction toward the center of the blade. It has an initial channel that takes a slight curve as it extends toward the center of the blade, but remains in a substantially vertical orientation until it terminates in a curve that is convex when viewed from the peripheral edge toward the center hole. The curve extends in both directions away from the channel portion. The first curve extends at a length that is longer than the length of the second curve. The curve does not complete a circle, but resembles a circle that has had been snipped at one point and one side hangs down below the other. Each curve terminates in an aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Western Saw
    Inventor: Anthony Baratta
  • Publication number: 20120125172
    Abstract: A cutting grid comprises a central cutting central grid element composed of a multiplicity of cutting blades arranged in a framework of quadrangular opening or in parallel with longitudinal passage openings, depending on the cutting desired result, with a central cutting element which is supported around the perimeter by an external frame and in a central position a central grid element incorporates a tubular rim.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: SAMMIC, S.L.
    Inventors: Javier Hidalgo García, Aitor Aguirrezabalaga Zubizarreta, Aitor Gogorza Segurota
  • Publication number: 20120042526
    Abstract: A knife blade includes a blade body having first and second major surfaces which respectively have marginal regions that extend toward a cutting line to form a cutting edge. The cutting edge includes successive cutting edge areas, at least one of which is cut along an inclined plane to form upstream and downstream surfaces. The downstream surface is configured to extend to join one of the first and second major surfaces to form, in terms of one cutting direction, a leading edge which forms a piercing site at the corresponding cutting edge area. With the cutting edge together with the piercing site of the leading edge, a food product having soft and hard textures may be cut effortlessly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Inventor: Wu-Lang Chan
  • Publication number: 20120024125
    Abstract: A loop cutter knife fixture for cutting vegetable products such as raw potatoes into spiral or helical loops. The knife fixture includes a circular blade holder adapted to be rotatably driven within a vegetable product flow path. The blade holder includes a central core cutter in combination with a spiral base plate defining a radial slot between axially spaced upstream and downstream ends thereof. Small slits are formed in this base plate for seated reception of preferably multiple U-shaped strip blades, which are in turn overlaid and clamped in place beneath a generally pie-shaped slab blade having a sharpened knife edge exposed at the base plate radial slot and held in place by preferably multiple clamp screws. The strip blades and/or the slab blade are formed from an inexpensive material, such as sheet metal or the like, whereby blade changeover is quick and economical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: J.R. SIMPLOT COMPANY
    Inventors: David B. Walker, Allen J. Neel
  • Patent number: 8078307
    Abstract: A defect testing apparatus for testing defects of optical film sheet-shaped product of an optical displaying apparatus, which includes a defect detecting means for detecting defects of a monolayer body and/or a laminate body constituting the sheet-shaped product in a state in which a protective layer on a surface of the sheet-shaped product is not disposed and defect information preparing means for preparing defect information which is information related to the defects detected by the defect detecting means, and the defect information is used for producing the sheet-shaped product provided in a roll form or in separate sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventor: Hiromichi Ohashi
  • Patent number: 8042478
    Abstract: An automatic panel cutting and edge seaming system includes a series of side edge cutting and seaming assemblies that receive a fabric material and trim and sew seams along the side edges of the fabric material to form a desired width panel. Puller rolls pull the material through the side edge cutting and seaming assemblies and feed the trimmed and seamed fabric material to a cross-cut sewing assembly. After a sufficient length of fabric material has been fed to form a desired size panel, the cross-cut sewing assembly is engaged to cut and seam the end of the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Atlanta Attachment Co.
    Inventors: Warran Oxley, John S. Chamlee, Van H. Nguyen, Danny V. Murphy
  • Patent number: 8042443
    Abstract: A disc-shaped tool includes a plurality of virtual regions formed such that it is surrounded by two radius lines extending from a rotation center of a disc-shaped base metal and two concentric circles on the base metal disposed around the rotation center. A central angle formed by the two radius lines is equal to or less than 90°, and the number of the virtual regions is 4 to 24. The concentric circle located in a center of an interval of the two concentric circles forming the virtual region is in a range of 0.6 r to 0.8 r with respect to the rotation center of the base metal when a maximum gullet bottom radius of the base metal is r. An overlapping of the virtual regions continuously adjoining each other is in a range of 0° to 12°. A minimum neighborhood distance between the adjoining slits is equal to or more than 0.05 r. A ratio of a length of an arc of the central concentric circle in each virtual region with respect to the interval of the two concentric circles in the virtual region is 3 to 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Kanefusa Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoru Nishio, Tomoyuki Iinuma, Yasutaka Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20110179932
    Abstract: A circular cutting blade is configured for cutting meat when turned about a rotation axis in a predetermined cutting direction. The cutting blade has a peripheral blade edge defined between the first and second sides and a plurality of circumferentially disposed cutting knives. Each cutting knife includes first and second knife sides and an arcuate knife edge that constitutes a portion of the peripheral blade edge. Each knife edge rises, relative to the rotation axis, between a first blade-edge location corresponding to a minor blade radius and a second blade-edge location corresponding to a major blade radius and further includes beveled primary and secondary knife-edge portions along which the first and second knife sides mutually converge at, respectively, a first bevel angle and a second bevel angle less acute than the first bevel angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Inventors: Eric C. Wilhelm, Richard M. Clemence, William Hill, Richard N. Cloutier
  • Publication number: 20110162504
    Abstract: A magnet holding jig comprises a platform and first and second holders disposed on opposite sides of the platform. The platform is provided with channels, the holders are comb-shaped to define digits and slits, the channels and the slits being aligned to define guide paths for permitting entry of a cutting tool therein, and the holders are also configured as digitate hooks. The holder hooks are in contact with a rare earth magnet block resting on the platform. The holders are pushed inward at their lower portions so as to elastically deform the digitate hook and move it backward and to bring the hook digits in pressure abutment with the magnet block, thereby holding the magnet block in place on the platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuhito Doi, Takehisa Minowa, Takayuki Hasegawa, Takaharu Yamaguchi, Koji Sato
  • Patent number: 7971510
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for setting the cutting gap on a cutting device for cutting food products. According to said method, the actual distance between the blade and the cutting edge is first determined and a desired distance between the blade and the cutting edge is subsequently set by an electric repositioning device, taking into consideration said actual distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Weber Maschinenbau GmbH Breidenbach
    Inventor: Günther Weber
  • Patent number: 7946907
    Abstract: A saw blade includes a circular core having a plurality of cutters disposed along a periphery thereof, and a central bore configured to receive an arbor of a rotating power tool. A plurality of gullets is located in spaced relation between the cutters, extending radially inward from the periphery. Each of the gullets includes a neck portion defined by side walls extending radially inward and extending divergently from one another into an arcuate base. The arcuate base extends along concave arcs to a linear base portion disposed at a radially innermost portion thereof, and which intersects a radius of the saw blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Abrasives, Inc.
    Inventor: Andre Roland Georges Heyen
  • Publication number: 20110017043
    Abstract: A saw blade assembly has a thin saw plate and a pair of collars, one to each side of the plate. The plate and collars include a center spindle hole, the spindle holes aligning with one another, and a plurality of secondary holes. The secondary holes are used to insert a fastener through the three elements. Alternatively, the thin saw plate is used with two collars that are not identically configured. One collar includes a center bushing having a spindle hole. The center bushing is longer than the first collar is thick and extends outwardly to one side of the collar. The saw plate and a second collar each includes a hole that accommodates the diameter of the center bushing such that the plate and the second collar fit over the bushing. Secondary holes are included to allow for the insertion of fasteners through common holes in the three elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Don L. Angelo, Ron E. Angelo
  • Patent number: 7856913
    Abstract: A rotary cutting blade provided with a curved cutting edge and a cutting surface extending centripetally from the cutting edge at angles varying in regular or irregular sequence between a predetermined maximum and a predetermined minimum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Weber Maschinenbau GmbH Breidenbach
    Inventors: Helmut Matzunsky, Rainer Schulze
  • Publication number: 20100294101
    Abstract: Cutting disc for use in a cutting machine, including a centrally arranged through hole and a radially extending opening. The cutting disc is manufactured from sheet metal, it comprises a first bent edge extending peripherically around the disc and a second bent edge extending peripherically around the through hole, and the disc includes a ditch-formed section extending radially from the centre of the cutting disc and out to the first bent edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: AB HALLDE MASKINER
    Inventor: Ulf Ekstrom
  • Patent number: 7832436
    Abstract: A movable blade unit for wood cutting machine is mounted to the rotating shaft of the wood cutting machine and includes a blade and an inner ring which is located between the blade and the rotating shaft. A movable ring is connected to the movable blade unit and includes a flange, an outer collar and the inner ring, wherein the flange is connected to the outer collar which is rotatably connected to the inner ring. The inner ring is mounted to the rotating shaft and a gap is defined between the inner ring and the rotating shaft. The inner ring includes multiple sets of rotating members which are in contact with the grooves in the rotating shaft so that the inner ring is rotatable and movable relative to the rotating shaft with little or reduced friction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignees: Kuang Yung Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Michael Jeffrey Strother
  • Publication number: 20100212470
    Abstract: A disklike cutting tool (10) comprises a disklike cutting blade (12) having a circular hole (11) in the center, an annular supporting plate (19) arranged on the surface on each side of the blade (12) coaxially therewith and supporting/fixing the blade (12) at a position on the inner circumferential side of the outer circumferential edge of the blade, and a continuous annular ultrasonic vibrator (14) secured to the surface of the supporting plate (19) coaxially with the blade at a position on the outer circumferential side of the inner circumferential edge of the supporting plate (19). The supporting plate (19) has an ultrasonic reflection plane (16) consisting of the interface with a continuous or discontinuous annular air phase space extending in the thickness direction of the supporting plate (19) at a position on the inner circumferential side of the inner circumferential edge of the ultrasonic vibrator (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventor: Kazumasa Ohnishi
  • Publication number: 20100199964
    Abstract: In a cutting disc which has a plurality of radial slots connecting with the peripheral edge of the disc wherein each radial slot curves to one side wherein the slot has a concave shape relative to the peripheral edge of the disc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Inventor: Kevin Baron
  • Patent number: 7770615
    Abstract: A ring saw includes a disc body having a circumferential edge with a first circumferential bearing groove. A cutting ring is mounted for rotation about the circumferential edge of the body. The cutting ring has an inner annular surface that carries both a circumferential gear profile and a second circumferential bearing groove. Ball bearings are positioned in side by side relation in a circumferential bearing race defined by the first circumferential bearing groove and the second circumferential bearing groove. A circumferential seal is provided between the body and the cutting ring, which is adapted to prevent abrasives from entering into the bearing race and interfering with ball bearings. At least one driving gear is carried by the body and engaged with the circumferential gear profile to impart rotational movement to the cutting ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: 1279059 Alberta Ltd.
    Inventors: Phillip Corfe, Lester Oilund