Abstract: An improved slice stacking device for a food slicing machine. The machine has a reciprocating carriage to which an elongated food product workpiece is mounted. The workpiece reciprocates through a cutting blade, forming a slice in each cycle. A stacking bed has a textured surface for unidirectional sliding resistance and is mounted to the carriage beneath the blade. Multiple curved fingers are rigidly mounted below an outfeed table and extend downwardly to contact, or be closely spaced from, the upper surface of the stacking bed during a portion of the reciprocation cycle. A slice removed from the workpiece lands on the stacking bed and passes beneath the fingers. During the rearward motion of the stacking bed, the slice is wiped from the stacking bed by the wiper fingers. Another embodiment includes a rake having downwardly extending tines positioned above the stacking bed. The tines extend downwardly into grooves between ridges on the stacking bed.

Abstract: A high speed food loaf slicing machine slices two food loaves simultaneously, using one cyclically driven knife blade; the slices are stacked or shingled in groups on a receiving conveyor located below the slicing station. Independent loaf feed drives are provided; slices cut from one loaf may be thicker than slices from the other. Each loaf feed drive includes two "short" conveyors each driven at a predetermined speed; the conveyor speeds may be different. In each machine cycle the receiving conveyor is moved down to accommodate an increasing number of slices; when a slicing cycle is completed, the receiving conveyor rapidly discharges the slice groups onto a deceleration conveyor and moves back up to start a new slicing operation. The loaf feed drives are reversed at the end of a slicing cycle, stopped, and then reversed again before the next slicing cycle.

Abstract: A paper cutting apparatus includes an elongated fixed blade, a movable blade, a fixed member, a pair of paper holding members, and a coupling portion. The movable blade reciprocates along the fixed blade in the direction of the width of paper to cut the paper in cooperation with the fixed blade. The fixed member is arranged midway along the path of the movable blade. The paper holding members are movably arranged on two sides of the fixed member and alternately hold the cut end portion of the paper cut by the movable blade. The coupling portion detachably couples the movable blade and the paper holding members with a predetermined coupling force, and cancels the coupling between the movable blade and one of the paper holding members by using the fixed member, while coupling the movable blade and the other of the paper holding members during movement of the movable blade in a paper cutting operation.

Abstract: A paper pallet (D, D1) formed by cutting and combining a plurality of cardboard panels (3). A cutting device (A), extruding mechanism (B), and an adhesive application mechanism (C) are generally provided to sequentially cut and adhesively accumulate layers of cardboard extrusion members (3a, 3d) into a multi-layered cardboard assembly characterized in that the stress applied the pallet (D, D1) formed therefrom is parallel to the corrugations of the cardboard panels (3) employed. A high-strength paper pallet is thus realized.

Abstract: An apparatus including a supply source for a long composite which includes a long carrier film and a green ceramic layer continuously formed thereon along its longitudinal direction, a printing station, a drying station and a punching station. A conductor film is printed on the green ceramic layer with conductive paste in the printing station, the printed conductor film is dried in the drying station, and the green ceramic layer provided with the conductor film is punched while being registered with the conductor film and separated from the carrier film in the punching station, whereby a ceramic green sheet for a laminated ceramic electronic component is extracted.

Abstract: An apparatus for automatically stacking molded articles successively trimmed by a trim press from a web of thermoplastic material, the trim press having a stationary die member which includes a die plate and a die shoe, the apparatus comprising: (a) a frame; (b) a carriage mounted to the frame; (c) at least one stacking mechanism, the stacking mechanism comprising: (i) a plurality of stack rods rotatively mounted to the carriage, each of the stack rods having a stack dog located substantially perpendicular to a first end thereof the stack dog positionable within a corresponding aperture of the die shoe of the stationary die member; and (ii) mechanism for rotating the stack rods so that the stack dog engages an endmost article of a completed stack of articles, the stack of articles located at least partially within the die shoe of the stationary die member; and (d) mechanism for transporting the completed stack of articles from within the die shoe of the stationary die member to a position for removal from the

Abstract: Punch and die combinations are disclosed for trimming the edges of strip material. The die openings and the punches have trapezoidal cross-sections so that they form trapezoidal notches in the edge of the strip and produce trapezoidal or, in one instance, parallelogram-shaped, slugs. By virtue of the fact that the die openings and punches have a trapezoidal cross-section, the slugs produced when the edge of the strip is trimmed are pushed into the die openings and passageways extending from the die openings and stacked in an orderly manner so that close packing of the slugs with resulting jamming does not take place.

Abstract: The invention uses a carriage that is longitudinally displaceable with respect to a cutting table, and a light transporting band whose width is at least equal to that of the sheets. The carriage is comprised of two separable movable members, one of which is motorized and comprises an image device for recording an optimized disposition of pieces to be cut out, while the other is towed and comprises a transversal clamping device into which is engaged a free end of the sheet. The towed member is coupled at its rear portion to the light transporting band, the latter serving to support and protect the sheet of patterned material when it is being drawn out.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for producing mat packets from panels of an adhesive material which adhesive material is covered with release layers. The panel of adhesive material is advanced sequentially through a feed device, a clamping device, a release layer removing device and a cutting device. The leading edge of the panel, with the release layers removed, extends freely beyond the clamping device toward the cutting device. The panel is advanced in increments corresponding to the length of the mat strip to be produced, and, when the panels are clamped by the clamping device, the panels with release layers removed are cut into mat strips, which are deposited on a transporting device in stacks of several on top of one another to form a mat packet.

Abstract: In a progressive die for punch press operations in which a strip of material is fed into the press and sequential operations are conducted on the strip including the separation of parts from the strip. The die is provided with a construction which forms an integral carrier tab between the parts to be separated. In the embodiment ilustrated, the operation is the manufacture of rotor and stator laminations for a dynamoelectric machine. The strip of material is fed into the press in which the die is mounted, and the respective rotor and stator laminations are formed in a series of workstations within the die. The improvement in the die construction is a punch station for substantially but not completely separating the rotor lamination from the strip. Thereafter, additional operations are constructed on the strip, the rotor lamination being completely separated at a subsequent workstation.

Abstract: An inverter/stacker for use in the manufacture of brick is disclosed in which two gripper frames are provided. Each gripper frame operates to grip slugs at a gripping position and to stack slugs at a stacking position in which the slugs are deposited on other slugs to form pairs of slugs, with one resting on the other. During the transfer, the slugs may be inverted for face-setting or stacked without facing. During each complete cycle of operation, each gripper frame grips transfers and stacks slugs so that higher outputs can be obtained without operating the inverter/stacker at high cyclic rates. In the illustrated embodiment, four slugs are stacked during each cycle of operation.

Abstract: A manufacturing and packaging arrangement for cards, especially playing cards, includes a sheet cutting and card stacking station, two corner punching stations, and a packaging stations which are connected with one another by a conveyor arrangement that is driven by a motor. In the cutting and stacking station, printed sheets are cut up into individual cards and those cards which belong to respective sets are assembled into respective card stacks which are then discharged from the cutting and stacking station by a discharge arrangement and transferred by a transfer conveyor to an intermittently driven main conveyor. At the main conveyor, the individual card stacks are engaged by entraining fingers which extend into a transporting channel, and are intermittently transported longitudinally of the channel to the corner punching stations.

Abstract: A high volume food loaf slicing machine in which a rotating and orbiting knife slices the loaf as it advances through a slicing station. The turbulent air generated by the rotating and orbiting knife is reduced in the vacinity of the stacking slices by baffles and is redirected through a vent port and away from the stacking slices.

Abstract: An Apparatus arranged behind the blades of a plate shear used for cutting sheet metal strips from a sheet metal plate to remove these strips from a sheet metal plate to remove these strips from the place behind the blades of the plate shear and to stack these strips on piles at a predetermined position behind the plate shear.

Abstract: Cut lengths or segments of photographic strip material, particularly photographic film, are stacked as they are discharged from a photographic film cutter. The device for stacking the cut lengths includes a tray, an arm, a base, and a guide. The base is connected to the film cutter, and supports the film tray with the first end of the tray positioned closely to the discharge end of the film cutter. The arm is positioned in generally overlying position with respect to the tray and is pivotally connected to the tray at the second end of the tray furthest from the discharge end of the film cutter. The arm preferably has a "W" shaped cross section which provides two lines of contact with the cut lengths of film which are deposited between the tray and the arm. The guide provides a guiding surface parallel to the path of the cut lengths along their front edges. The guide may take a plurality of positions to accommodate films of different widths.

Abstract: A continuous strip (16) of metal with boxed discrete capacitors (10) assembled thereon is cyclically advanced to move a leading section of the strip into a positioned chamber (48) of a multi-chamber magazine (46). After a predetermined number of advancements of the strip, a cutter (76,83) is operated to sever the strip and then an auxiliary feed device (107-118) is rendered effective to advance the trailing extremity of the severed strip into the magazine chamber. Immediately thereafter the magazine is indexed to position another chamber to receive a subsequently advanced section of the strip. Upon loading of a magazine with a strip and assembled capacitors in each chamber, facilities (127-142) are rendered effective to advance a new magazine into position to receive additional sections of the strip with the assembled capacitors.

Abstract: An improved fully mechanized sawmill is provided which is composed of structurally independent modules which are removably mounted on a platform composed of a plurality of side-by-side longerons supported horizontally on files of spaced-apart vertical piers and columns. The longerons provide horizontal stress support for the platform along the files of piers and columns perpendicularly to the cutting axis of the sawmill, and the modules mounted thereon provide horizontal stress support for the platform along the ranks of the piers and columns parallel to the cutting axis. In addition, improved mechanisms and techniques are provided for handling and selecting the sawlogs to be cut, for selecting and distributing the pieces cut therefrom according to shape and utility, and for stacking and handling the distributed pieces at preselected locations according to shape and utility.

Abstract: A method of sawing and stacking sheets of fiberboard and similar material includes placing a first sheet to form a support. A plurality of second sheets are now divided into smaller sheets and are stacked on the first sheet without altering their positions in relation to each other.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for cutting, grouping and stacking brick wherein after cutting and grouping, selected courses are inverted and stacked on other uninverted courses to form two course high stacks with the respective bricks being stacked face to face in order to assure uniform face color after the bricks have been cured and dried. As a part of the method, rows of single course cut brick are accumulated on a receiving table after exiting from a brick cutting assembly, and selected bricks are transferred from the receiving table to an inverter where they are inverted and deposited back on a course of single high uninverted brick to form a two course stack with the respective bricks being stacked face to face. The formed two course high stack is then transferred to where the same is ultimately loaded onto a kiln car for curing and drying.

Abstract: A process and an apparatus for manufacturing books, blocks or calendars by cutting large sheets having printed thereon different pages into smaller sheets which must be brought into an orderly succession before the pages or sheets are bound. The usual folding of the large sheets can be omitted, in that the sheets are fed individually and successively to a conveyor means and are conveyed towards a cutting means; the individual sheets are stacked in a partially overlapping manner. The cutting of the sheets is effected whenever predetermined widths of the individual sheets have been conveyed through the cutting means.

Abstract: An automatic film conveying and packaging mechanism for conveying cut film lengths forwardly from a film cutter to a packaging envelope while maintaining continuous contact with the film lengths between a pair of opposed upper and lower conveyor assemblies and driving the lengths directly into the packaging envelope in stacked relation to each other with the trailing ends thereof positively disposed in substantial alignment with each other and in rearwardly spaced relation to the discharge end of the upper conveyor assembly.

Abstract: A sheet metal shears for metal sheets and plates with a highly sensitive surface comprises: a sheet metal infeed platen with a lower blade secured to the edge thereof extending transversely to the direction of sheet advance; a sheet stop disposed in spaced relation from the lower blade in the direction of sheet advance; a movable top blade which in cooperation with the lower blade cuts sheet metal strips from the metal sheet which is advanced over the lower blade up to the sheet stop; and a support means for the sheet metal strips including a movable table which may be extended to support said strips prior to and during the cutting operation in a support plane which is a continuation of the surface of the sheet metal infeed platen and which may be retracted to enable the cut metal strips to fall vertically after they are cut from the sheet.

Abstract: The invention deals with a trim removal system for equipment used in cutting biscuits from a continuously moving strip of dough. The cutter consists of an endless conveyor entrained over a pair of spaced sprocket assemblies positioned beneath the advancing dough sheet. Dough cutting rings project upwardly from the conveyor. As the dough is advanced it is pressed onto the rings. A biscuit size piece passes through the center of each ring and is deposited in a container positioned to receive it. The trim removal belt is provided with a multiplicity of holes of just the proper size to fit over the rings so that the upper run of the belt rests in contact with the upper surface of the conveyor. Guides are provided for bringing a belt into engagement with the upper run of the conveyor at an oblique angle and for raising the belt and trim from the surface of the conveyor at a predetermined oblique angle. The trim is then returned for remixing with fresh dough.