Spaced Cut Forming Tool Patents (Class 83/678)
  • 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: 8683706
    Abstract: A handheld engine-driven cutter is provided with a disk blade and an engine that drives the disk blade, a filter through which air provided to the four-stroke engine passes, a carburetor that mixes fuel and the air that passed through the filter, a casing that houses the filter and the carburetor, at least one operation member that is operated by a user and connected to the carburetor via a link, and a shaft that is connected to the casing and supports the operation member in a swingable manner. A shaft receiving groove that supports the shaft is formed in the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Makita Corporation
    Inventors: Masayoshi Okumi, Masaki Kondo, Tomonobu Nashimoto, Katsumi Tozawa
  • Patent number: 8595944
    Abstract: A handheld engine-driven cutter is provided with a disk blade and an engine that drives the disk blade, a filter through which air provided to the four-stroke engine passes, a carburetor that mixes fuel and the air that passed through the filter, a casing that houses the filter and the carburetor, at least one operation member that is operated by a user and connected to the carburetor via a link, and a shaft that is connected to the casing and supports the operation member in a swingable manner. A shaft receiving groove that supports the shaft is formed in the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Makita Corporation
    Inventors: Masayoshi Okumi, Masaki Kondo, Tomonobu Nashimoto, Katsumi Tozawa
  • Patent number: 8555503
    Abstract: A method for forming a valve includes forming a valve body; machining a bore by passing a tool having cutting edges along an axis into the valve body; machining a groove and face in the bore at axially spaced locations by revolving the tool about a circular circumference whose center is aligned with the bore; and supplying lubricant in a pneumatic stream through the tool to the cutting edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. Habel, Derek Kinch
  • Patent number: 8353236
    Abstract: A perforating equipment (111) for continuous forms in movement comprises tree transversal perforating device (54, 56, 57) for executing transversal perforations on continuous forms (58) to be divided in three longitudinal sections and continuous forms to be divided in two longitudinal sections. Each perforating device includes a contrast member (61, 62, 79), a blade support mounting a blade (116a, 117a, 118a) for the three section form and a blade (116b, 117b, 118b) for the two section form, a blade servomechanism (73, 74, 85) and an activation group (104, 106, 107). The blade servomechanism rotates the blade support for a condition of interference of a blade in the position of perforation; and the activation group causes the contrast member to contrast a corresponding blade for the perforations of the forms to be divided into three sections, or the forms to be divided into two longitudinal sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: TECNAU, S.r.l.
    Inventors: Giuliano De Marco, Armando Aprato, Francesco Terrusi, Francesco Modica
  • Publication number: 20120304842
    Abstract: A tool unit (3) for a cutting or sawing machine with a tool carrier (103) enabling especially deep cuts, comprises a first tool (1) and a second part (2, 50). The first tool (1) comprises a disk shaped cutting blade (10) and a first blade driving member (40). The second part (2, 50) comprises either a second blade driving member (50), or a second tool (2) comprising a disk shaped cutting blade (10) and a second blade driving member (50). The first tool (1) is secured to the second part (2, 50) by means of a central clamping unit. Each cutting blade (10), has a central aperture defined by a central edge, and a peripheral cutting edge (13), being the working part of the tool (1, 2). The blade driving members (40, 50) are arranged to rotate together with the disk shaped cutting blade/s (10) about an axis of rotation (A). At least one of the driving members (40, 50) has a circumferential driving surface (41, 51) provided to be able to cooperate with an endless power transmission means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: HUSQVARNA AB
    Inventors: Ove Donnerdal, Hakan Pinzani
  • Patent number: 8257236
    Abstract: A machine and method for making bags is described and includes a web traveling from an input section to a rotary drum, to an output section. The rotary drum includes at least one seal bar, having a first sealing zone, and an adjacent weakening zone. The weakening zone may be a heated perforator, includes a heating wire, or be disposed to create an auxiliary sealed area. The heating wire can have, connected thereto, a source of power that is at an adjustable voltage or magnitude, and/or pulsed, and/or a feedback loop. The heating wire may be an NiCr wire and make intermittent contact with the web and be disposed in an insert. The weakening zone may create a line of weakness that is uniform or varies in intensity, is a separating zone, or includes a heat film, a toothed blade, a row of pins, a source of air, or a source of vacuum. The sealing zones may include temperature zones, cartridge heaters, cooling air, or heated air, or a source of ultrasonic, microwave or radiative energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: CMD Corporation
    Inventors: Paul A. Selle, Kenneth C. Radtke, Charles H. Sauder, Paul A. Johnson, Christopher Lee White, Arvid R. Johnson, Gregory T. Prellwitz, Michael J. Stickney, Thomas C. Jansen, Christopher A. Saucier, Terry L. Leitzke, Bradley J. Schmoll
  • Patent number: 8079293
    Abstract: A perforating machine for perforating a plurality of perforation lines in a vent baffle sheet comprises a support table having two spaced apart openings, perforating wheels, two backstop wheels, and an endless feed belt having a plurality of protrusions. The perforating wheels and the two backstop wheels are positioned on opposite side of the support table. The perforating wheels engage with the two backstop wheels through the two spaced apart openings. The endless feed belt has an upper portion and a lower portion. The lower portion of the endless feed belt is positioned above the support table. The protrusions on the lower portion of the endless feed belt engage with side stiffeners of the vent baffle sheet to move the sheet through the perforating wheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Brentwood Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Matt Kortuem, Palle Rye, Dave Rosten, Richard L. Partlow, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8042440
    Abstract: A punching die for punching out a seal member from a sheet of an inorganic fiber mat having a contour. The punching die includes a base plate. A first blade is supported on the base plate and has a cutting edge extending to form a loop. The first blade punches out a frame-shaped unnecessary portion, which includes the contour, and a seal member formation portion, which includes the seal member, from the inorganic fiber mat. A second blade, which is supported on the base plate at an outer side of the first blade, partially cuts the frame-shaped unnecessary portion. The at least one second blade forms a perforation in the frame-shaped unnecessary portion to separate the unnecessary portion into a plurality of unnecessary fragments. This improves productivity for production of the seal members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: IBIDEN Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shiro Osumi
  • Patent number: 8033203
    Abstract: A cartridge is configured for slitting a mill roll in a slitting machine. The cartridge includes a first shaft mounted in bearings in a pair of endplates, with one end of the shaft having a driven yoke for rotation thereof. The first shaft includes a row of first circular blades spaced longitudinally by corresponding first spacers. A second shaft is pivotally mounted in the endplates, and is spaced parallel with the first shaft. A dovetail bar is fixedly joined to the second shaft parallel therewith. And, a row of blade holders are mounted along the dovetail bar, with each holder including a second circular blade aligned with a corresponding one of the first blades for cutting in shear a web unwound from the mill roll. The cartridge may be quickly replaced in the slitting machine for each production run thereof for alignment with cores on a corresponding arbor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Martin F. Johnson, Paul E. Hensley, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8033204
    Abstract: A cutting wheel using knives with slice thickness gauging surfaces defining, with the knife cutting edges, a thickness dimension of sliced food products and a throat dimension measured perpendicular to the wheel cutting plane between each knife cutting edge and the terminal edge of the adjacent gauging surface, wherein the knives each have a single primary bevel extending practically tangent to the cutting plane on the side of the knife facing towards the cutting plane and a smooth transition area on the opposite side of the knife, and the ratio of throat dimension to slice thickness dimension is 1 to 1.7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Urschel Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Brent L. Bucks
  • Publication number: 20110219930
    Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus and method for cutting a chamfer into the edge of a material while simultaneously making another cut in the material. The chamfer provides the cut material with reduced susceptibility to top surface edge swell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Stephen B. Bailey
  • Patent number: 8012076
    Abstract: A machine and method for making bags is described and includes a web traveling from an input section to a rotary drum, to an output section. The rotary drum includes at least one seal bar, having a first sealing zone, and an adjacent weakening zone. The weakening zone may be a heated perforator, includes a heating wire, or be disposed to create an auxiliary sealed area. The heating wire can have, connected thereto, a source of power that is at an adjustable voltage or magnitude, and/or pulsed, and/or a feedback loop. The heating wire may be an NiCr wire and make intermittent contact with the web and be disposed in an insert. The weakening zone may create a line of weakness that is uniform or varies in intensity, is a separating zone, or includes a heat film, a toothed blade, a row of pins, a source of air, or a source of vacuum. The sealing zones may include temperature zones, cartridge heaters, cooling air, or heated air, or a source of ultrasonic, microwave or radiative energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: CMD Corporation
    Inventors: Paul A. Selle, Kenneth C. Radtke, Charles H. Sauder, Paul A. Johnson, Christopher Lee White, Arvid R. Johnson, Gregory T. Prellwitz, Michael J. Stickney, Thomas C. Jansen, Christopher A. Saucier, Terry L. Leitzke, Bradley J. Schmoll
  • Publication number: 20110162494
    Abstract: A device of double saw blades includes a first saw blade, a second saw blade, a driving device and security system. The first saw blade and the second saw blade rotate around a rotation axis oppositely, and respectively include a blade body and a cutting element mounting on a periphery of the blade body. The driving device connects with the first saw blade and the second saw blade, and has a driving diameter. The security system has a security distance provided between the blade bodies. The security system includes two rigidity enhancers. The rigidity enhancers respectively include a saw blade adapter mounting on an outer side of the blade bodies. The saw blade adapters respectively have a predetermined diameter to enhance a rigidity of the blade bodies, so as to reduce deformation thereof when working. The diameters are no more than the driving diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Inventor: Liang Huang
  • Patent number: 7971514
    Abstract: An apparatus and a production process for producing rolls of disposable pieces of hygienic paper, including the stages of: cutting perforated lateral lines on said hygienic paper, wherein each of the lateral spaces of the perforated lateral lines is shorter than each of the lateral perforations of the perforated lateral lines, wherein each of said lateral spaces is facing one of the lateral perforations of a neighboring perforated lateral line, rolling the hygienic paper around inner tube, and cutting longitudinal cuts along the hygienic paper and the inner tube, the apparatus including spiral and segmented blades for cutting the perforated lateral lines, and knives for longitudinal cutting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Inventor: Avraham Alalu
  • Patent number: 7849775
    Abstract: A tool body for use in scrapbooking includes a groove for accepting a plurality of interchangeable tools therein. The tool body may include two or more separate bodies that may be connected together. The interchangeable tools may include a rotary cutter having one or more offset patterned blades. The housings of the rotary cutter may be attached together to form patterned strips having three different widths. The rotary cutter may be used separately or include an adapter for traveling in the groove of the tool body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Craft-N-Doodle, LLC
    Inventor: Regina Yoder
  • Patent number: 7765908
    Abstract: A folder for a web printing press includes a first cutting and nipping device for partially cutting a web so as to form first cuts in the web and for nipping the web. A second cutting and nipping device cuts the web between the first cuts so as to form signatures, the web being nipped at a nip of the second cutting device. Also disclosed is a method for cutting a web which comprises the steps of partially cutting the web so as to form first cuts in the web while web is nipped; and cutting the web between the first cuts of the web while the web is nipped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Goss International Americas, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Lee Hearn
  • Patent number: 7735417
    Abstract: A fiber optics/electrical conductors identification system including a printer adapted to receive generically colored (non-colored) heat shrink tubing and include printing capabilities for printing selective color indicia and/or selective alphanumeric indicia and/or bar code symbology and/or the like onto the tubing. A controller may be coupled to the printer to control the printer in order to selectively apply the indicia onto desired length segments of the tubing. It may further include the provision of length-way perforations to assist in tear away (without the use of tools) removal of selective segments of the tubing pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Richard R. Fengler
  • Patent number: 7721637
    Abstract: A cutting wheel using knives with slice thickness gauging surfaces defining, with the knife cutting edges, a thickness dimension of sliced food products and a throat dimension measured perpendicular to the wheel cutting plane between each knife cutting edge and the terminal edge of the adjacent gauging surface, wherein the knives each have a single primary bevel extending practically tangent to the cutting plane on the side of the knife facing towards the cutting plane and a smooth transition area on the opposite side of the knife, and the ratio of throat dimension to slice thickness dimension is 1 to 1.7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Urschel Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Brent L. Bucks
  • Patent number: 7712404
    Abstract: A tool for chamfering the end of a pipe which is capable of accommodating a wide variety of different pipes, and employing at least one cutter assembly which can be positioned to cut either the outside or the inside edges of pipes, while simultaneously truing the end of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Inventor: Mark W. Markle
  • Patent number: 7631586
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cutting tool which can easily prevent damage from occurring at the slit end formed on a sheet material, such as a corrugated sheet or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Kinki Knives Industries Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyonobu Agata, Kozo Agata
  • Patent number: 7484445
    Abstract: A punching and/or perforation equipment (33, 34) for continuous paper forms (37, 42) comprising punching and/or perforation member (81; 226, 227) and contrast elements (82; 224) substantially tangent to the movement surface (63, 204) of the forms and a punching and/or perforation mechanism (56, 57; 197, 198) for driving the punching and/or perforation members. A detecting device (92, 93; 244, 245) detects at least one reference position the forms associated with the punching and/or perforation positions and a servomechanism (87, 88; 228, 229) actuates the punching and/or perforation mechanism on the basis of the reference position or positions between a state of rest and a state of punching and/or perforation and in which the reference position or positions are associated with information of a position encoder (72, 214).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Tecnau S.R.L.
    Inventors: Giuliano De Marco, Armando Aprato, Francesco Terrusi, Alberto Massucco
  • Patent number: 7455006
    Abstract: A modular/configurable rotary die and a rotary die cutter (4) incorporating the die for making a corrugated carton blank (2) are disclosed. The rotary die comprises a plurality of die components (6,7,8) each having at least one blade (43-48) thereon for at least one of scoring, creasing and cutting a corrugated sheet (13) to cooperatively form a corrugated carton blank. With reference to the three dimensions of a carton (1) to be erected from the corrugated carton blank, the die components include at least one length die component (6), at least one height die component (7) and at least one width die component (8). By replacing at least some of the die components with different sizes/types of die components different sizes/types of carton blanks can be produced without requiring the use of dedicated rotary dies for each size/type of carton blank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Inventor: Zsolt Toth
  • Patent number: 7445590
    Abstract: A machine and method for making bags is described and includes a web traveling from an input section to a rotary drum, to an output section. The rotary drum includes at least one seal bar, having a first sealing zone, and an adjacent weakening zone. The weakening zone may be a heated perforator, includes a heating wire, or be disposed to create an auxiliary sealed area. The heating wire can have, connected thereto, a source of power that is at an adjustable voltage or magnitude, and/or pulsed, and/or a feedback loop. The heating wire may be an NiCr wire and make intermittent contact with the web and be disposed in an insert. The weakening zone may create a line of weakness that is uniform or varies in intensity, is a separating zone, or includes a heat film, a toothed blade, a row of pins, a source of air, or a source of vacuum. The sealing zones may include temperature zones, cartridge heaters, cooling air, or heated air, or a source of ultrasonic, microwave or radiative energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: CMD Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Selle, Kenneth C. Radtke, Charles H. Sauder, Paul A. Johnson, Christopher Lee White, Arvid R. Johnson, Gregory T. Prellwitz, Michael J. Stickney, Thomas C. Jansen, Christopher A. Saucier, Terry L. Leitzke, Bradley J. Schmoll
  • Patent number: 7437982
    Abstract: A strip of wrapping material is fed and cut into leaves by a unit comprising first and second contrarotating rollers equipped with respective first and second blades of which the first blades operate as a pair to cut the strip transversely into leaves, and the second blades operate as a pair to impress a transverse line on each leaf, this line combining with a longitudinal line, impressed by a further disc cutter, to create a “pull” portion removable from the leaf by tearing. The timing of the second blades can be controlled, so as to adjust the position of the transverse tear-off line on the leaf, by components interacting with the strip along a predetermined feed path extending between two decoiling rollers and a cutting zone that coincides with the line of substantially tangential proximity between the two cutter rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: G.D S.p.A.
    Inventors: Gilberto Spirito, Alessandro Minarelli
  • Patent number: 7156007
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for crushing a hydrous polymer jelly, comprising two rolls (11,12) located axially parallel and rotating in opposite directions between which a nip (13) for the passage of the polymer gel (10) is formed. In order to achieve a more uniform and cheaper size reduction of polymer gels, the present invention proposes to form one roll as a cutting roll (11) which is provided with at least one axially extending cross cutting element (15) having a cutting edge (17) and with a radially extending longitudinal cutting element (14) provided with a cutting edge (18) which runs around it, and to form the other roll as a back-up roll (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Stockhausen GmbH
    Inventors: Detlef Albin, Jürgen Schulte, Uwe Günther
  • Patent number: 7140288
    Abstract: A method and cutting device makes incisions in an elongated food product, like a hot dog or sausage, to form a pattern or character after the product is cooked. One form of the cutter includes a hinged housing into which the food product is positioned. The housing includes blades that contact and cut the food product as the housing is closed. Another form of the cutter includes a wheeled cutter and a rack. The wheeled cutter includes gear teeth that permit the rack to be drawn under the wheel as the wheel engages gear openings formed in the rack as the wheel rotates. A food product positioned on the rack is cut by blades on the wheel as the rack travels under the wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Inventor: John W. Twerdok
  • Patent number: 7137539
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of converting a web of indefinite length into a plurality of web portions by slitting the web at a transverse point prior to processing the web portions into a plurality of use supply forms (such as rolls), wherein the plurality of web portions are separated by a two-stage process. A first stage of the process is a partial separation operation that almost entirely separates the web portions, but leaves the web portions connected, such as by a slitting operation that leaves a series of connected zones. The second stage includes the complete separation, such as by breaking of the connected zones. The complete separation of the web portions preferably occurs near the station at which the use supply forms are created, such as a winding station. Thus, the web portions, after substantial separation at the first stage can be handled (for example, guided and tensioned) as if the plurality of web portions were a full width web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventor: Byron M. Jackson
  • Patent number: 7111536
    Abstract: A method for expelling air out of mailpieces includes the steps of creating a stack of the mailpieces; cutting an opening in at least some of the mailpieces; jogging the stack of mailpieces; and subjecting the stack of mailpieces to at least one compression/decompression cycle during the jogging step thereby expelling air out of the at least some of the mailpieces through their corresponding openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: Eric A. Belec, Michael M. Farrell, Jeffrey A. Gateman, Edward C. Miller, Denis J. Stemmle
  • Patent number: 7080584
    Abstract: To produce at least one perforation in a non-woven sheet (N) of fibers or filaments, the sheet (N) is brought into contact with a perforated cylinder (2), equipped with at least one insert (8). Each insert includes, at one end, a plane surface (S), and is provided with a recess (8b) which emerges in the plane surface (S), and which has a sharp edge (8g) formed by the intersection of the inner surface (8f) of the recess (8b) with the plane surface (S). A perforation in the non-woven sheet (N) is obtained by cutting out a portion (P) of the non-woven sheet (N) by shearing of the fibers or filaments of the non-woven sheet (N), between the sharp edge (8g) of the insert (8) and a perforating member (9) driven simultaneously in translation and in rotation about its own axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: ALBIS
    Inventor: Galliano Boscolo
  • Patent number: 6868764
    Abstract: A material cutting and feeding machine for cutting and perforating a roll of paper. The material cutting and feeding machine includes a generally rectangular frame. A material feeding roller is mounted to the frame. The feeding roller is adapted to hold a roll of paper. A motor is adapted to rotate a draw roller assembly that draws the paper from the paper roll. A cutting assembly is mounted adjacent to the draw roller. The cutting assembly comprises a latitudinal perforating bar adapted to perforate the paper along a width of the paper, a perforating wheel adapted to perforate a length of the paper, and a latitudinal cutting bar adapted to cut the paper along the width of the paper. A guide roller assembly comprised of four rollers and two guides is orientated to feed the paper from the paper cutter to an exit in the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Inventors: James T. Dishon, Anthony C. Johnson
  • Patent number: 6860012
    Abstract: A method for forming elastic ventilation cushion comprises the steps of arranging a plurality of needle seats at two banks, an upper bank and a lower bank, and a straight gap is formed between the upper bank and the lower bank, wherein one edge of each needle seat near the other bank is mounted with a plurality of slender needles, wherein each distal end of the needles is folded as a distal folded section; passing an elastic cushion through the gap; and moving the needle seats at the upper and lower banks so that the length of the gap is enlarged or reduced, thereby, the needles on the needle seats will pierce the elastic cushion and the distal folded section will tear surfaces of the elastic cushion to form a plurality of elastic ventilation slits on the elastic cushion. Moreover, the needle seats can be replaced by needle rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Inventor: Chien Tan Lee
  • Patent number: 6854370
    Abstract: A device for the cross perforation of webs, preferably paper webs for producing sacks, comprises a rotatingly driven perforating blade and a grooved roller, both of which are mounted on a machine frame and between them passes the web to be perforated. To adjust the penetration depth of the teeth of the perforating blade into the ring grooves of the grooved roller, there is at least one adjusting device for changing the distance between the axes of rotation of the perforating blade and the grooved roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Windmoeller & Hoelscher
    Inventor: Andreas Sonntag
  • Publication number: 20040237747
    Abstract: An improved cutting head for a food product on a slicing machine including upper and lower mounting rings, a plurality of cutter support segments connected to the mounting rings, a cutting blade attached to a front edge portion of each cutter support segment, and opposed first and second pivot pins extending from upper and lower portions of the cutter support segment and through the upper and lower mounting rings. Each of the pivot pins are positioned at a location closely adjacent to a forward edge of the cutter support segment and substantially near a cutting edge of the cutting blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventor: Daniel W. King
  • Patent number: 6820869
    Abstract: In order to provide a variable folder which allows smearing-free operation, the cutting blade of an upstream cross-cutting arrangement is provided with recesses, which leave behind residual crosspieces in the strand which is to be cut, and arranged in the product-directing region, between the cross-cutting arrangement and a collecting cylinder, are accelerating and tearing-off cams which grip the incoming product and tear it off from the strand at the residual crosspieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Klaus-Ulrich Lange, Helmut Schnell
  • Publication number: 20040182213
    Abstract: A rotary die cutter for forming a non-linear line of perforations in a strip of material is disclosed. The rotary die cutter includes a rotatable anvil roll and a rotatable knife roll. The knife roll has a peripheral surface with at least one knife formed thereon. The knife has a non-linear configuration. The knife extends across at least about half of the width of the knife roll and has a plurality of land areas each separated by a notch. The knife roll is coaxially aligned with the anvil roll to form a nip therebetween through which the strip of material can pass. For each rotation of the die cutter, the knife will pass through the strip of material and be brought into direct contact with the anvil roll and form a non-linear line of perforations in the strip of material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth John Wagner, Joseph Andrew Mlinar
  • Publication number: 20040177737
    Abstract: A rotating cutting cylinder and an opposing member, wherein the cutting cylinder is fitted with a plurality of blade segments distributed along the length of the cutting cylinder and connected to one or more actuators for producing a movement of selective extension and retraction of said blade segments with respect to said cutting cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Applicant: Fosber S.P.A.
    Inventor: Mauro Adami
  • Patent number: 6766722
    Abstract: A cutting and transport roller and a process for cutting the material webs which rest on the peripheral surface of the cutting and transport roller. In so doing, the material webs are severed with the aid of a cutter, which is located inside the shell of the cutting and transport roller in its resting position and which exhibits at least one knife, which during the cutting process of the material web reaches through an opening in the shell of the cutting and transport roller. The cutting motion, which is executed by the cutting surfaces of the knife during the cutting process, exhibits rotary components, whereby the rotational motions of the knife run about an axis of rotation, which is either parallel or at an acute angle to a perpendicular line on the plane which is defined by the radial (r) and axial (z) coordinates of the cutting and transport roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: Windmoeller & Hoelscher
    Inventor: Franz Plasswich
  • Patent number: 6722243
    Abstract: A rotating cutting cylinder and an opposing member, wherein the cutting cylinder is fitted with a plurality of blade segments distributed along the length of the cutting cylinder and connected to one or more actuators for producing a movement of selective extension and retraction of said blade segments with respect to said cutting cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: Fosber S.p.A.
    Inventor: Mauro Adami
  • Patent number: 6718855
    Abstract: A rotary die cutter for cutting a series of irregular-shaped blanks from a continuous web. The rotary die cutter includes a male die cylinder that has a series of die cavities formed along its outer circumference. Each of the die cavities includes a surrounding cutting edge that defines the shape of the blank to be cut. The male die cylinder is pressed into engagement with either an anvil cylinder or a female die cylinder to form either crush-cutting or shear-cutting nips therebetween. The continuous web is fed into the cutting nip such that the cutting edges of the die cavities contact the web to cut the blanks from the web. A plurality of vacuum ports positioned in the die cavities along the outer circumference of the male die cylinder are connected to a source of vacuum contained in the male die cylinder to remove the die-cut blanks from the web. The die-cut blanks are vacuum-transferred to a stacking unit, while the scrap web is continuously discarded by air-conveying removal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Inventor: Roger G. Kane
  • Patent number: 6651539
    Abstract: The invention relates to a perforating, grooving or cutting device for a multicolor or single-color sheet-fed rotary press (1) comprising printing and/or varnishing groups (2), at least one of which has a rubber cylinder (3) with a holding system (14) for a blanket, as well as an associated counter-pressure cylinder (4). According to the invention, a rectangular base plate (13) is provided, which is made from a flexible and shape-retaining material over which it is possible to glue embossed treatment profiles (29, 37) used as perforating and/or grooving and/or punching profiles corresponding to perforating and/or grooving and/or punching shapes which can be predetermined. Furthermore, at least two fastening strips (17, 18) are provided for detachably attaching the punch foil to opposed marginal areas in the stretched state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Inventors: Friedrich Eicher, Detlef Füessl
  • Patent number: 6631665
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing perforating tools, as well as perforating tools manufactured according to the method. The tool is manufactured in that a number of blades (2) are placed densely packed together in a bracket. The blades (2) are, along their one longitudinal side, serrated with a large number of teeth (3). The serrated sides of the densely packed blades (2) form a serrated surface (5). The serrated surface (5) is processed such that the teeth (3) are removed from selected surfaces (8) of the serrated surface (5) and that the remaining teeth (3) form a perforation pattern (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventor: Jonas Lindh
  • Patent number: 6612213
    Abstract: A method and device for diverting signatures is disclosed. A first cutting device partially cuts a web, while a second cutting device downstream of the first cutting device fully cuts the web so as to form a plurality of signatures. At least one first belt and at least one second belt hold the plurality of signatures, with the first belt having at least one first raised outer section and passing through at least part of the second cutting device, and with the second belt having at least one second raised outer section. The first and second raised outer sections interact to offset the plurality of signatures so as to define an alternating first stream and second stream of the plurality of signatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Paul Emmett Bredenberg, Matt Thomas Sharkady, Richard Daniel Curley, Kevin Lauren Cote
  • Publication number: 20030106402
    Abstract: This invention provides patterned tread strips of uniform shape and dimension from salvaged tire carcass tread strips adapted for producing products requiring stacked layers of tread strips. Novel methods of and apparatus for shaping the tread strips in one embodiment results in trimming edges of substantially rectangular shaped tread strips salvaged from tire carcasses having two shorter ends and two longer sides to produce precisely uniform width between the longer sides. Thus the longitudinal tread strips may be passed from one end longitudinally through a power actuated strip feeder which establishes slicing means operable at designated spacings near opposite edges of the tread strips to cut away edges and produce uniform longitudinal strip widths between said two shorter ends as the strips pass through the strip feeder. Other shaping embodiments of the invention include tread surface shavers for producing strips of precise thickness, and length cutters to provide specified lengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2001
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Inventor: Joseph J. Solon
  • Patent number: 6553883
    Abstract: The apparatus for cutting a weblike material (N) fed continuously along a path (P) through said apparatus comprises a rotating cutting cylinder (101) and an opposing member (105), these being arranged on opposite sides of said path (P). On the cutting cylinder are a plurality of blade segments (111) distributed along the length of the cutting cylinder and connected to actuators (119, 121) for producing a movement of selective extension and retraction of the blade segments (111) with respect to the cutting cylinder (101).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Fosber, S.p.A.
    Inventor: Mauro Adami
  • Patent number: 6533325
    Abstract: A business form incorporates an improved multi-layer integral card utilizing microperforations to form ties which retain the card during machine handling and printing. The method employs a flexible steel die or engraved die cylinder with microperforations. The die penetrates all layers but the bottom laminate and the microperforations form ties to secure the card until removed for use. The combination and method of forming allows convenient removal of the card by an end user with edges on the removed card being smooth to sight and touch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Tamarack Products, Inc.
    Inventor: David J. Steidinger
  • Publication number: 20030000357
    Abstract: There is disclosed a cut line forming method including: using a cutter roll (1) having cutting blades (2) protruded on its outer circumference and an anvil roll (10) for receiving the cutting blades; feeding a sheet (20) into the clearance between the cutter roll and the anvil roll; and turning the rolls individually to form cut lines (21) in the sheet. The cutting blades (2) of the cutter roll (10) are formed into a shape of letter “V”. The anvil roll has receiving faces (11) of a predetermined width (w) formed at an interval in a roll axis direction. The cutter roll (1) is turned to direct the crests of the V-shape of the cutting blades forward of the turning direction thereby to advance cuts from the side of the crests of the V-shape so that cut lines corresponding to the width size of the receiving faces may be intermittently formed in the sheet along the V-shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2002
    Publication date: January 2, 2003
    Inventor: Yoshinori Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20020189418
    Abstract: A cylindrical blade body of a hole cutter includes blades and grooves. Each of the blades is disposed alternately with a corresponding one of the grooves. A cutting edge of each blade includes an outer cutting edge, an inner cutting edge, and a stepped cutting edge. The outer cutting edge of each blade has a point located at a radial outer position of the outer cutting edge. The inner cutting edge of each blade has a point located between the inner cutting edge and the stepped cutting edge. The heights of the points of the inner cutting edges are substantially equal for all blades. The heights of the points of the outer cutting edges are different among the blades. This hole cutter makes it possible to reduce anti-cutting resistance and obtain an optimal cutting state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2002
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Applicant: Omi Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shohei Omi
  • Patent number: 6460439
    Abstract: The present invention is related to an apparatus for cutting webs of material, including a first revolving member and a second revolving member having cutting elements integrated therein. Said revolving members, respectively, define a cutting region therebetween and supporting elements, respectively, assigned to said revolving elements within said cutting region. Said second revolving member comprises a belt assembly having a layered structure, said cutting elements mounted within said layered structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventor: James Richard Belanger
  • Patent number: 6460441
    Abstract: An on-demand exact registration form web perforating apparatus is simple yet effective, and can operate at high speed and has a long life. A form web is moved in a predetermined path past first and second rotatable continuous circumferential perforator wheels mounted on substantially stationary axes and spaced from each other along the predetermined path and in alignment with each other along the path. First and second anvil cylinders are spaced from each other along the path for cooperation with the wheels, each cylinder having an interrupted circumference including a raised portion and a depressed portion, and a movable axis about which the cylinder rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Moore North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Jimmie A. Harrod