Abstract: A circular saw having a table on which a workpiece is laid in which a saw blade whose bevel angle can be adjusted is mounted on an operating arm which may be held in a raised position and a lowered position relative to the table. The circular saw includes a fixed support member fixed to the table, the fixed support member having a pair of recesses each of which has a slanted reception surface relative to a slide surface of the fixed support member; a movable support member mounted rotatably on the fixed support member for supporting the operating arm, the movable support member having a an arcuate guide hole, the movable support member having a pair of mount screw holes perpendicular to the reception surfaces; a stationary shaft which passes through the arcuate guide hole formed in the movable support member and which engages with the fixed support member; and a pair of adjusting screws which penetrate the mount screw holes and which are alternatively held in abutment with the reception surfaces.

Abstract: It is placed in a stationary manner in the top part of the machine and has a sharpening wheel (18) as well as a polishing device of the blade that eliminates the rough edges produced in sharpening.It has a frame (1) that incorporates a cover (3) that is subject to being collapsed in order to allow the unit to be cleaned. In the bottom the cover (3) incorporates a support fastened by means of a body (9) which is passed through by a central hole through which a shaft (12) passes whose top end incorporates a control (13) and in the bottom thereof the sharpening wheel (18) the shaft (12) being aided by a spring (14) whereby upon turning the control (13) the movement of the sharpening wheel (18) is produced until it makes contact with the cutting blade (2.) Upon releasing the control (13) the sharpening wheel returns to its original position, the cutting blade (2) remaining protected in the entire process.

Abstract: A pallet-cutting machine for selectively removing individual components of a load-bearing pallet.

Abstract: A cutter assembly of a strand cutting machine comprises a fixed cutter member, over which the strand is to be drawn after being cooled and dewatered, and a rotary cutter member coactive with said fixed cutter member to cut a strand of resin into pellets. The rotary cutter member includes i) a cylindrical rotary body having a forward side surface parallel to a supply-side end surface of the fixed cutter member, ii) a rotary shaft extending perpendicularly to the supply-side end surface of the fixed cutter member and supporting thereon the rotary body, and iii) a plurality of blades mounted on the rotary body in a forward inclined posture in the direction of rotation. The rotary body has a plurality of through-holes arranged at regular distances along a circle concentric with the rotary body, each through-hole extending between opposite surfaces. Each blade is attached to an inside surface 5a of the respective through-hole and has at its end a cutting edge.

Abstract: A body for a circular saw blade is a saw blade having intrinsic spring beamed segments in the annular sections of the body between the drive collar and outer cutting rim in which a slot system is provided as a means to limit deformation of the blade when an inconsistency in the density of media to be cut is encountered in blade operation. The slot system provides a means to dissipate stress so that the yield strength of the blade material is not exceeded and blade deformation is prevented.

Abstract: A rotatable slotter head assembly (20) of the type used in the slotting of box blanks is provided which includes mechanism (28) permitting rapid and easy alteration of the circumferential position of the cutting knives, (26) carried by the assembly (20). Preferably, the assembly (20) includes a rotatable body (24) provided with an elongated, peripheral, knife-receiving slot (68) defined by fixed backing plates (58) and laterally shiftable locking plates (86-96). A plurality of selectively inflatable resilient bladders (74-78) are carried by the head assembly (20) and, when inflated, shift the associated movable locking plates (86-96) against the cutting knives (26), thereby firmly locking the latter in place. When knives adjustment is desired, one or more of the appropriate bladders (74-78) are deflated, the knives (26) are shifted as desired, and the bladders (74-78) are reinflated.

Abstract: A slitter moving mechanism includes an upper and a lower blade unit with an upper and lower blade respectively, the upper blade being movable between a slitting position to slit a web in a feed direction and a retracted position wherein the web can pass between the blades without being slit; a supporting member vertically and laterally movable within predetermined ranges and rotatably supporting the upper blade, a biasing member for upwardly biasing the supporting member and generating a coupling force for laterally moving the upper blade in a separating direction away from the lower blade; and guide member for restraining lateral movement of the upper blade in the separating direction beyond a predetermined distance and for guiding the vertical movement of the supporting member between the slitting and retracted position; the upper blade unit including a lowering device for lowering the supporting member and for generating another coupling force to swing the upper blade into contact with the lower blade, the

Abstract: An apparatus and a method serve for cutting elongate pieces of wood having a modulus of elasticity between 50,000 and 400,000 kg/cm.sup.2. A circular saw blade is provided having a plurality of spaced peripheral teeth. The saw blade is rotated about an axis at a cutting speed exceeding 40 m/s. The pieces of wood are displaced relative to the saw blade along a feeding direction extending perpendicular to the saw blade axis of rotation. A stationary bending element is arranged on a broad side of the saw blade adjoining the cutting teeth. The bending element has a radially profiled surface with at thickness increasing towards the axis and decreasing towards the cutting teeth. The saw blade can be used to cut a slot into the pieces of wood along the feeding direction, thus generating a first and a second section of the pieces of wood. The bending element ensures that the first section is lifted from the saw blade immediately after the formation of the slot.

Abstract: A device for cutting and/or slitting travelling webs or sheet-like board material includes a pair of coacting rotary circular knives mounted on each side of the path of the web with the two peripheral cutting edges being in contact with one another. The device includes the use of a flat spring to provide an arrangement for biasing one knife against the other knife in the axial direction to provide the desired elastic pretension therebetween.

Abstract: A food slicing machine with a circular knife having a plurality of radially spaced indentations on a portion inwardly of the cutting edge to induce air flow during rotation of the knife to prevent food particles from accumulating on the knife during cutting operation.

Abstract: The saw blade has a series of teeth which are formed with cutting elements which are spaced inwardly from an outer circumferential edge and have sides which extend outwardly from planar sides of the saw blade. The saw blade is designed to cut yieldable material without cutting the carrier medium which can be a conveyor belt or a caul. Cutting is achieved by pushing the blade into the yieldable material until a cutting element engages the material. Movement of the blade then causes the cutting element to cut the yieldable material until a full depth cut is accomplished. The conveyor belt or caul is not cut by the saw blade outer edge which acts like a smooth disk. The saw blade can include a wear strip positioned on the outer circumferential rim to lengthen the life of the saw blade and conveyor belt or caul.

Abstract: A method of forming perforating rule and blades of the type used in business form machines and other paper processing machines to apply perforations to business forms or various other paper products wherein an impression roll having hardened impression teeth spaced equally about an outer circumferential surface thereof is pressed into contact with a blade or rule such that the hardened teeth bite into a sharpened edge of the blade or rule forming equally spaced perforating teeth therealong. The resulting product of the process is a perforating rule or blade having tapered perforating teeth equally spaced with gaps therebetween wherein a pillow of displaced material is formed at the base of the gaps being structured and configured to resist residue buildup while facilitating ease of stripping of the rule or blade from the perforated forms.

Abstract: In a cutting knife for rotary cutting apparatuses for paper, in particular multilayer separated paper products, having a circular base body, from the conical face of which opposite the cutting plane adjustable blades or the like project, the blades are arrested adjustably about a fulcrum or pivot point.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cutter disc arbor for divider machines having a first rotating body and a first flange on which a cutter is centered. A second rotating body has a second flange facing the first flange. The second flange is movable axially between a first position in which the second flange clamps the blade against the first flange, and a second unclamped position.

Abstract: An apparatus for unnailing wood pallets includes a frame, a first cutter assembly and a second cutter assembly positioned vertically above the first. The first cutter assembly includes a pair of elongated horizontal support arms supporting a cutting head at one end, downwardly biasing springs at an opposite end and a pivot between the ends. The second cutter assembly includes a pair of elongated horizontal support arms supporting a second cutting head at one end and a pivot at an opposite end that is coaxial the pivot of the first cutter assembly. The second cutter assembly is biased upwardly by springs between its support arms and those of the first cutter assembly. A stringer return member is horizontally movable with a pallet-moving cradle and includes a member which is pivotally mounted to the cradle at one end and has a follower at an opposite end to follow a track that moves with the support arms in order to keep the member positioned between the pair of support arms.

Abstract: A side trimmer made from hardened steel has an inner diameter with a keyway, an outer diameter, and two faces. A recess is machined in the faces to a radius greater than the keyway root. The recesses enable the faces to be hard faced with a ceramic tool without the tool being destroyed by interrupted cuts at the keyway. At least one face is formed with an annular groove that separates the faces into inner and outer faces. The outer face cooperates with the outer face of a second side trimmer to form a nip that trims a moving coil. When the outer faces have worn, they are resharpened by hard turning with a ceramic tool.

Abstract: A cutting device for layered or unlayered foil lengths, having good cut quality and an extended period of use before re-grinding of the cutter is required, consists of cylindrically shaped keyway cutter bars with distance rings lying between them, which are mounted on a blade shaft, and of roller blades of right-angles cross-section, which are equally mounted on a blade shaft and wherein each roller blade is pressed by a spring washer against the corresponding keyway cutter bar. The advantage according to the invention consists in that first each roller blade is supported on one of the cutting blades of the keyway cutter bar and that after these cutting shoulders wear off the whole roller blade shaft is turned around and in each case the other cutting shoulder is used for cutting. After these cutting shoulders too have worn off the cutting device is made usuable for further cutting operation by grinding off the cylindrical outer surface of the keyway cutter bars (FIG. 2).

Abstract: A circular saw blade having an inner drive portion, an outer cutting edge portion, and a plurality of angled slots extending through the blade from the first lateral surface through to the second lateral surface of the blade. The angled slots are radially spaced inboard of the outer cutting edge portion and they are closed and thus do not open to the outer diameter of the saw blade. The angled slots serve to produce an audible signal in the event the saw blade is rotated in the wrong direction of rotation upon a drive unit.

Abstract: A vibration damper for a rotary cutter is disclosed. The rotary cutter has a rotary saw blade and a guard for covering the rotary saw blade. The vibration damper is disposed inside the guard and has a contact member which contacts the rotary saw blade.

Abstract: A clamping arrangement is disclosed for an annular milling cutter comprises a receiving flange which has a centering collar concentric with the axis of rotation. With the aid of clamping means the milling cutter is held on the receiving flange and positively connected to the latter by at least one engaging member. To enable the gripper of a tool changer to have unobstructed access, a pressure flange carrying a number of radially protruding teeth on its rim is provided, axially movable by an actuator rod selectively operated by an actuator. The milling cutter has in its central opening radially inwardly protruding teeth, the spacing of which corresponds to the spacing of the teeth on the pressure flange. By setting the position of the teeth offset relative to one another, the milling cutter can be moved over the pressure flange, and rotating the cutter to align the teeth, the pressure flange can clamp the milling cutter against an abutment surface on the receiving flange, acting through the aligned teeth.

Abstract: A scalloped cutting edge is formed on a knife blank by disposing the blank between corresponding faces of a punch and die assembly, wherein a resilient face of the punch compresses the blank into a plurality of scallop-shaped depressions formed in the face of the die, thereby imparting a corresponding scalloped configuration to the edge portion of the blank.

Abstract: A combined saw and chipper head comprises a frustoconical body having a circular saw blade mounted on smaller face. A plurality of straight-edged knives are mounted on truncated face of body with corner of each knife positioned in a gullet between a pair of teeth.

Abstract: A device for forming slits, or through cuts, in a plastic film. The device is a disc having a circumferential surface and pseudotriangular slender cutting edges consisting of protrusions aligned linearly in a plurality of straight rows extending around the entire circumferential surface, the protrusions extending outwardly from said circumferential surface at angle of at least 60.degree. and no greater than 100.degree..

Abstract: A circular tool arrangement which includes a circular rim having an inner rim with the circular rim having a plurality of circular seats arranged on a first radius and the inner rim having a plurality of circular seats arranged on a second radius. Tools shaped as either cutting members or creasing members are arranged on the rim and have projections which are engaged in one of the groups of seats and each of the arrangements has a ring provided with concentric grooves for receiving projections on the side of the tool facing the ring. The rings are moved in the clamping engagement by a spring arrangement which can be released by applying axial pressure on the heads of the spring arrangement to shift the ring from a clamping position to an open position to enable removal of the tools.

Abstract: In a device for clamping a circular saw blade, the saw blade is firmly clamped between two flanged rings and thereby connected to these so as to form an exchangeable tool unit which is pushed onto the free end of a saw shaft for rotation with the saw shaft and slidable displacement. Compression springs or the like are arranged between the tool unit and a stop face at the free end of the saw shaft to act upon one of the flanged rings and move the tool unit a short distance away from the stop face. A rotatingly mounted thrust plate which can be pressed centrically against the other flanged ring causes the tool unit to firmly engage on the stop face of the saw shaft.

Abstract: A circular tool arrangement wherein tools are held between first and second ring-shaped elements characterized by the first ring-shaped element having a first plurality of bores on a surface of the element on a first radius from the axis of the first ring-shaped element and having a groove receiving an inner ring having a second plurality of bores for receiving on a second radius, each of the tools having projections on one side for coacting with the first plurality of bores and projections on an opposite side for coacting with the second plurality of bores and the second ring-shaped element being provided with a circumferential groove for receiving the set of projections not being received in bores, and the second ring-shaped element also being provided with a recess which can be aligned with a tool position to provide space for removing the tool and inserting a new tool.

Abstract: A device for clamping a circular saw blade has a drive plate and a driven plate, a circular saw blade being clamped therebetween. The circular saw blade is clamped by means of clamping members, each being made in the form of a cam clamp. A handle of the clamp is provided with a weight and is received in a radial groove of the driven plate. A rod of the clamp form a threaded joint with the drive plate. In addition, each clamping member is engageable with a spring-biased slide block which interconnects the drive and driven plates.

Abstract: A tape slitter has a pair of parallel arbors carrying sets of cutting knives through which webbed material may be drawn and severed into elongated strands. A slide cartridge is coupled at its opposite ends to one of the arbors and a force transmitting device, all of which are arranged to be simultaneously and selectively slid in opposite axial directions. Axial force is applied to the force transmitting device by a detachable torque wrench which urges the sets of knives into positive cutting engagement. Movemment in the reverse direction drives opposite sides of the knives into cutting engagement. During shifting of the knives from one mutual cutting position to the other, the web material remains continuously threaded.

Abstract: The invention relates to a circular saw blade of the sandwich-type, i.e. a blade comprising two steel discs (2, 3) on the periphery of which the cutting elements (5) of the blade are attached. In order to improve the vibration and noise damping properties of such blades an intermediate layer (4) of an energy-absorbing and solderable material is introduced between the discs and the discs are interconnected by soldering, preferably by means of a plurality of spot-like soldered joints (11), with said intermediate layer (4) serving as the solder. (FIG. 2).

Abstract: Significant improvements in the life of cutting knife blades and the quality of shearing of thick multiple sheet and shingled paper products are produced in a paper trimming system having two circular rotatable knives mounted to overlap at a shearing station through which the paper products are passed. Thin steel annular disc cutting blades with teeth about the outer circumference are significantly improved in life by eliminating the effects of blade warping and non-continuous mating contact with a bed knife cutting surface in an adjacent shearing relationship that is not broken by intervention of sheared paper or out of round knife surfaces or by deflection of the cutting blade away from mating surface contact by the pressure of thick or shingled paper products. Friction and wear is reduced by inclination of the cutting blade to prevent continuous rubbing against sheared paper edges.

Abstract: A cutting knife for a rotary cutting apparatus for multilayer isolated paper products with projections, for example in tooth form, projecting from a base body. The projections are formed as blades or the like displaceable in or on the base body and inclined with respect to a cutting plane; the faces of the blades lying in the cutting plane can be reground.

Abstract: This machine is of the type comprising a frame (1) supporting a hopper (2) for charging the products, a cutting plate, an ejection plate (6a, 6b) for ejecting the cut products disposed under the cutting plate (4), and a device (13) for driving in rotation the cutting plate and the ejection plate. According to the invention, the ejection plate is driven in rotation in a direction opposed to that of the cutting plate. Advantageously, the speed of rotation of the ejection plate is higher than that of the cutting plate.

Abstract: An apparatus and improved method for transversely cutting strips of deformable material with a rotating cutting blade which is moved generally transversely across the strip at a predetermined rake angle and bevel angle. A vacuum applied to certain chambers of a platen draws the strip firmly against a supporting structure at two locations on opposite sides of a cutting line during the cut cycle. A lubricant is sprayed through nozzles onto the blade as it cuts the strip and blow-off nozzles remove excess lubricant during the cut and return cycles of the blade to prevent contamination of the cut strip edges. A release bar assists in disengaging the strip from the platen after the strip is cut. Grippers remove the cut strip and then an input conveyor advances the remaining strip toward the cutting line where the grippers pull the strip forward to a predetermined position for the next cut cycle.

Abstract: A pipe cutting tool especially adapted to cut the interior of in-the-hole (I-T-H) drill pipe to allow subsequent removal of the pipe above the cut. Due to blasting damage, long sections of I-T-H pipe, otherwise in good condition, cannot be removed because the damaged section prevents the removal of the entire drill string. The tool is adapted to receive power from an external source and includes a frame, a pivoted motor and cutter, and an actuator for pivoting the motor.

Abstract: A mower attachment for use on farm and highway equipment such as tractors. A cutting head assembly is mounted on an extensible boom supported from the tractor. The cutting head assembly can be moved in three dimensions without changing the position of the tractor. The cutting head assembly has a guard for the cutting chain and has a window therein. A door can open and close the window. It is especially useful for cutting brush along fence rows. It can be useful for cutting and trimming trees.

Abstract: A sawing method involving in one direction continuously driven saw blades (1, 2) or saw wheels, according to which two saw blades (1, 2) or saw wheels are arranged in an adjacent position to each other, with associated saw teeths extending in an opposed relationship to each other. The saw blades (1, 2) or the saw wheels are thereafter caused to perform a continuous movement in opposite directions to each other in the operative direction for each saw blade (1, 2) or saw wheel, whereby same in a common and co-acting operation take up a saw cut in a workpiece. In order to maintain the saw teeths of the saw blades (1, 2) or the saw wheels separated from each other during a sawing operation, a pneumatical or hydraulical medium under pressure is advantageously supplied against the adjacently located surfaces of the saw blades (1, 2) or the saw wheels during the sawing operation.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a food processing machine for processing a sheet of gelatinous food material into a fibrous product. The machine includes a knife roller having a plurality of parallel annular disk-like blades, a counter roller having a cylindrical outer surface, and a nozzle for jetting a stream of a fluid from the sheet feeding side of the rollers. The jet of fluid flows between the annular blades of the rotating knife roller and prevents the food material from sticking to the blades.

Abstract: A manually actuatable produce cutter is provided including a horizontal produce receiving trough and a disc cutter assembly journalled for rotation about a horizontal axis paralleling the trough and with one sector area of the disc cutter registered with and extending across one end of the trough. The trough includes a follower plate guidingly supported therefrom for movement longitudinally of the trough toward and away from the disc cutter and the latter includes a central support shaft extending outwardly therefrom journalled from the trough and projecting toward the second end thereof. The disc cutter and shaft are axially disengageable from the trough in a direction extending outward of the first end thereof and the latch structure is provided for latching the disc cutter and shaft against axial disengagement from the trough, the latch structure, when in the release position, including portions thereof preventing movement of the following plate beyond a predetermined position toward the disc cutter.

Abstract: A cutting disk mounting assembly includes opposing end plates with a stub shaft attached to an exterior surface of one end plate. The plates have a first axial bore formed in the interior surface of the one plate and a protruding axial hub formed on the interior surface of the other plate. The hub is sized to fit in the first bore so as to align the plates in a clamping relation with their interior surfaces located adjacent to one another. A second axial bore is formed through the other plate and the axial hub thereon and a third axial bore is formed through the one plate so as to open into the first bore therein. The third bore aligns with the second bore when the hub is fitted in the first bore. Also, the third bore contains threads which threadably interengage with a threaded fastening screw when the latter is applied through the second bore to attach the aligned plates together in the clamping relation with respect to a cutting disk when the latter is disposed therebetween.

Abstract: A rotary slicer 20 for comestible products. A stationary magazine 26 supports a product upright as a rotary table 38 carries a rotary knife 40 in an orbit that passes beneath the magazine. A freely rotatable center plate 80 of the blade facilitates movement of the blade through the product. Orbiting movement of the blade is automatically stopped with the blade remote from the magazine and electrical interlocks 109, 112 prevent operation without all protective safety covers 24, 102, 106 in place. A removable sharpener 172 is attachable to the top of table and operates with the blade flush with the table top. A product follower 118 within the magazine holds the product in place and urges it downward during slicing. The follower in part extends outward between the magazine 26 and magazine cover 106 to allow manual movement and release from a latched raised position, after the magazine cover is closed.

Abstract: The subject invention involves equipment for precision size reduction of a product, such as cutting string beans lengthwise into strips. More particularly, the invention is directed to improvement in the structure of a circular knife including a novel method of making its peripheral cutting edges by reducing the number of operations required to produce the knife. Previously, as presently known, the peripheral cutting edges of circular knives involves the expense of individually cutting material out of a peripheral area as compared to the unique method of the subject invention which simultaneously shears and forms offset portions and radial portions, and wherein the outer knife ends of these portions are simultaneously sharpened by a common bevel which causes the edges of the sharpened ends of the offset portions to be inset with reference to the sharpened ends of the radial portions. These two significant factors in the manufacture of circular knives constitute a meritorious advance in the art.

Abstract: In order to achieve a secure join between the base and the covering of a disc-shaped tool, e.g. a circular saw, provided with a vibration-reducing structure at least on one side and to prevent the covering of the structure from separating from the base, an edge region of the covering extending into a groove in the base is joined elastically to the base at least in part on the rear and/or end surface by at least one holding element.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a circular saw blade comprising a first annular saw blade having a plurality of teeth projecting radially from the periphery thereof and a second circular saw blade having a plurality of teeth projecting radially from the periphery thereof. The first blade has a greater diameter and a smaller thickness than the second blade and the teeth on the first blade are angularly set so as to partially extend into the cutting plane of the second blade. The blades are mounted coaxially adjacent to one another such that when used to cut through a workpiece, the first blade makes a fast rough cut and the second blade follows partially within the path of the first blade and provides a smooth, finished cut.

Abstract: A self-contained mount, for a spindle-driven rotary abrasive tool or the like, able to compensate for slight non-concentricity of the threading on the end of a drive spindle for the rotary tool. The mount includes an internally threaded cylindrical sleeve with an outside diameter small enough to be inserted into a longitudinal axial bore in such tool, and a retaining ring to maintain the sleeve fixed longitudinally therein while permitting it to adjust its position relative to the rotational axis, if necessary, upon being screwed onto a threaded end portion of the spindle, while supporting the tool coaxially therewith.

Abstract: A quick-release mounting for a cutting wheel comprises a housing adjustably mounted in an arm, and a hollow shaft rotatably supported in the housing. The shaft has an expandable collet hub on which a wheel can be received. A mandrel extends within the shaft and has a tapered part to expand the collet hub; the mandrel is spring loaded toward expanding the hub, and a handle on the mandrel allows thrusting the mandrel in opposition to the spring load for release of a wheel. Locking members guard against accidental release of a wheel from the shaft, and an adjustable stop prevents over-tightening the collet hub. Adjustments of the mounting to mount or dismount a wheel and to change position thereof can all be accomplished without need for tools.

Abstract: A circular saw blade, having been divided into two sections to permit rapid replacement without having to be removed past the end of the saw arbor, is reconnected and self-interlocked to its own body, thus eliminating any requirement for machined collars or studs for retention or alignment. Interlocking is accomplished by the use of interlocking projections and corresponding recesses in various configurations on the two sections of the split saw blade.

Abstract: A system for precision centering a bored rotary member upon a mounting shaft, which relatively loosely extends through the bore, includes a radially outwardly extending shoulder on the shaft against which one end of the bored member is seated. A generally triangular shaped, plate-like insert, having a central opening, is positioned over the other end of the bore. The corner portions of the insert are immovably fastened to the member and the shaft passes through the central opening. The periphery of the opening is defined by a series of spaced apart, equal radius, arcuate segments which form substantially line contacts with the shaft periphery. The radii of the segments are centered on the bore axis and are slightly shorter in length than the shaft radius, which is shorter than the bore radius. Thus, the arcuate segments resiliently compress radially inwardly around the shaft to center the bore upon the shaft.

Abstract: A device for cutting an elongate paper roll into a plurality of small rolls comprising at least one cutting disc adapted to rotate about a rotary axis during operation whereby the device is provided with a plurality of cutting discs rotatable about rotary axes being in fixed positions during operation and with means for displacing the elongate paper roll with respect to the cutting discs in a direction at least substantially normal to the rotary axes of the cutting discs, while, viewed in the direction of displacement of the elongate paper roll, the cutting discs are relatively off-set in a manner such that an outermost portion of the paper roll is cut off at least for the major part before the cutting disc cutting off the adjacent portion of the paper roll engages the elongate paper roll.

Abstract: An adjustable tool mount positions a rotatable tool on a machine tool spindle by a central tool mount ring having a internal thread machined throughout. The thread engages a pin extending from the tool spindle, so that rotation of the assembly causes axial advancement of the tool mount. The tool mount is clamped and unclamped by a lock nut received on the tool mount which compresses a plurality of nested conical spring rings which are closely fitted to a counterbore within the tool mount and to the machine spindle. Compression of the spring rings tends to enlarge the ring outer diameter and tends to reduce the ring bore, thereby causing a secure frictional grip to be effected between the tool mount and machine spindle.

Abstract: A circular rotary slitter construction comprises a body hub having a circular perimeter and at least one axially facing surface. A cutting edge hoop cylinder is fixedly mounted on the body hub perimeter. At least that portion of the axially facing surface contiguous to the hoop cylinder is axially inset from an annular cutting edge of the hoop cylinder so that the annular cutting edge margin of the hoop cylinder overhangs the contiguous axially facing surface cantilever fashion and the cutting edge is axially outwardly spaced relative to the contiguous axially facing surface. The hoop cylinder is adapted to be made from tool steel and the body hub is adapted to be made from a more easily machined material such as aluminum and at least partially from a suitable plastic material.