Abstract: A cutting assembly and corresponding workpiece processing for cutting a workpiece, the cutting assembly including a first cutting tool adapted to cut the workpiece along a first cutting plane, and a second cutting tool adapted to cut the workpiece along a second cutting plane, the first and second cutting planes defining an inner angle therebetween, the cutting assembly being adapted to cut the workpiece along the first and second cutting planes in a single operation.

Abstract: Described herein is a cutting apparatus (100) for allowing visual inspection of a core sample in an inner tube at a drilling site after the inner tube has been removed from a coring tube and prior to it being transported to a laboratory. The cutting apparatus (100) comprises a support track (110, 112, 114, 116)) on which is mounted a tube support member (120), a cutter wagon (130, 132, 138) and a drive arrangement (140, 142, 144, 146). The apparatus (100) provides relative movement between an inner tube (150) and the cutter wagon (130, 132, 138) to allow a section of the inner tube (150) to be removed along its entire length for visual inspection. The drive arrangement (140, 142, 144, 146) provides the relative movement between the inner tube (150) and the cutter wagon (130, 132, 138).

Abstract: Apparatus and method for translating articles. The apparatus has a rectangular work area defined by the upper run of a positioning conveyor having an oblique-roller conveyor belt selectively driven forward or reverse in coordination with the actuation and deactuation of the obliquely rotatable belt rollers. Tools, such as cutting tools or inspection stools, along the sides of the work area interact with the sides of the articles as they are translated without rotation in a rectangular path against guide surfaces on the periphery of the work area by the sequential reversing of the conveyor belt direction and the actuation and deactuation of the article-supporting rollers.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for cutting boxes. The box cutter has a rectangular work area defined by the upper run of an oblique-roller conveyor belt selectively driven forward or reverse in coordination with the actuation and deactuation of the obliquely rotatable belt rollers. Cutting tools along the sides of the work area cut into the side panels of the boxes as they are translated without rotation in a rectangular path against guide surfaces on the periphery of the work area by the sequential reversing of the conveyor belt direction and the actuation and deactuation of the box-supporting rollers.

Abstract: Described is a device that is to used in conjunction with a chainsaw to keep the chainsaw kerf from closing, thereby greatly reducing the chance of having the chainsaw bar being pinched and bound. Also included is a limiting feature that keeps the chainsaw kerf spacer from being inserted too deeply into the chainsaw kerf, thereby contacting the chainsaw blades. Additionally, a handle is included to facilitate the extraction of the chainsaw kerf spacer from the chainsaw kerf after completing the cut. The kerf spacer can be installed with one hand and without the aid of tools.

Abstract: An avocado cutter with an upper blade and a lower blade, each rotating in a forward direction with the lower blade below and forward of the upper blade defining a space therebetween. A V-shaped conveyor conveys an avocado to the upper blade which cuts to the seed of the avocado and rotates the avocado in a forward direction in the process causing the avocado to engage the lower blade and engage a V-shaped splitter to split the avocado into two sections.

Abstract: A scoring bridge includes a plurality of moveable mounted carriages. The carriages each have a rotor, and the bridge has a linear stator to move the carriages. The position of a carriage designated as a reference carriage is recorded as it moves past a motion detector. The position of each remaining carriages is recorded as they individually move past the detector. The difference between the position of a carriage and the position of the reference carriage is an offset that is added to the position reading of the carriage to accurately space the carriage form the reference carriage. Each of the carriages can have a scoring assembly that includes servomotor acting through a gear arrangement on a scoring wheel. The servomotor applies a constant load to the scoring wheel and adjusts the load for any positive or negative displacement of the scoring wheel from a reference position.

Abstract: A sawdust-free wood cutting apparatus (10) comprises a guide (62, 72) for guiding a piece of wood (W) along a feed path having a cutting zone. At least one circular blade (18b) is mounted in the cutting zone and driven in rotation about an axis transversal to the feed path. The circular blade (18b) has a toothless circumferential cutting edge. A feeder (14, 16) advances the piece of wood (W) to be cut through the cutting zone at a linear speed substantially equal to a tangential speed at the toothless circumferential cutting edge of the circular blade (18b).

Abstract: The invention is a device for automatically cutting small objects, primarily objects in the form of tablets and a method of tablet cutting. The device includes tablet guide, alignment and cutter apparatus. The tablet-guide moves a tablet to a cutting position. The alignment apparatus aligns the tablet for cutting at the cutting position. The cutting apparatus automatically cuts the fully aligned tablet into tablet portions having equal volume. The device may include vacuum apparatus for removing cut tablet particulates and may include ejector apparatus for ejecting cut tablet portions.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a tool for cutting sandwich type plaster boards such as gypsum plaster boards. It is an object of the present invention to provide a tool which allows the exact cutting of those boards in a time saving manner. According to the present invention this object is performed by a tool for working board-like workpieces, in particular sandwich type plaster boards, comprising a guide means for guiding the tool, a handle means, a blade means for forming a cut in the workpiece, and a coupling means for coupling the blade means with the guide means in an adjustable manner. A spacing between the handle means and the blade means may be adjusted by said coupling means in a direction transversely to a moving direction of the blade means.

Abstract: A method of separating a pipe (1) from an elongate flexible element (2) used to pull the pipe (1) from the ground comprises drawing the flexible element (2) past or through separating means which splits the pipe (1) along its length as it passes to thereby strip the pipe (1) from the flexible clement (2).

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting an adhesive tape attached to a semiconductor wafer and a wafer ring is disclosed. The apparatus includes cutters and rollers. In cutting the adhesive tape, the cutters are aligned on the wafer ring which contains the semiconductor wafer within the wafer ring. The cutters move rolling in a circle along the wafer ring by a rotation of a rotating body, and cut the adhesive tape into two portions. The rollers follow the cutters pressing the inside portion of the tape to secure the adhesion between the adhesive tape and the wafer ring. The apparatus may further include a stationary sensor and marks on the rotating body to control the rotation of the rotating body.

Abstract: A device and method for superficially incising a sausage-like meat product includes a plurality of rotatable cutting elements which are arranged to define a chute therebetween. Each cutting element includes a cylinder and has a circular blade which projects radially from the cylinder. The centers of the respective blades, also located in the cylinder, define a base plane and the blades are all similarly tilted to rotate in tilt planes which are angled from the base plane. In the operation of the device, all cutting elements are simultaneously rotated and a meat product is inserted into the chute. Rotation of the cutting elements simultaneously causes the cylinder to draw the meat product through the chute and causes the blades on the cylinder to superficially cut a helical shaped incision into the meat product. The depth of the cuts are established by the projection of the blades, and the pitch of the helical incisions, can be controlled by the tilting of the cutting elements.

Abstract: A machine for slicing bakery products such as rolls and buns. Buns that are arranged in clusters having at least four buns each have their two outside buns sliced from the outer edges and the interior buns sliced from a location between them. A vertical disk with a dull edge is arranged to engage the weak line between the two interior buns to create a break from the bottom that provides access for the shaft of the slicing blade to pass through the bun cluster without disfiguring the buns. The disks and the slicing blades for the interior buns are carried on a lower slicing mechanism which underlies the conveyor system for the buns. The lower slicing mechanism can be slid out to one side of the machine for servicing. The disks can be lowered to an inoperative position by an actuating linkage, and the lower slicing blades are automatically released when the disks are lowered.

Abstract: A cutting apparatus for slicing bakery products. Two circular cutting blades powered by respective motors are relatively positionable toward and away from each other in a cutting station. One cutting blade may be shifted to remove it from the cutting station when making cuts using only the other blade.

Abstract: Work activated slicing machine for small edible bread substance such as bagels, buns, and rolls. Incorporated in one housing is a stationary gravity work feeding chute, work sensor at the top of the chute, and carring handle. Within the housing are two DC gear motors driving two rotary knives in the chute. A bread product placed in the top of the chute being allowed to slide toward the two rotary knives, thus breaking the sensor beam, energizing the two rotary knives and pulling the bread product through and out the front, after the product clears the machine the rotary knives stop rotating.

Abstract: A woodworking machine comprising one or more sets of parallel rotating blades positioned in or above a flat worktable surface such that multiple sets of parallel grooves of a controlled depth can be cut into a wood block moved over the table surface and above, below or between the rotating blades. The product produced by the machine is of a unitary construction comprised of multiple wedge shaped shims held together by a breakable membrane between the shims.

Abstract: A resaw has twin arbors with one to six blades mounted on each arbor. In addition, the resaw has a rotatable fence with a continuous belt along its periphery. Two side pressure rollers are mounted adjacent to the rotatable fence between an entrance to the resaw and the blades. A workbed of the resaw is made up of a series of spiked rollers. Just prior to an exit from the resaw, there is located a top roller which is mounted normal to the side pressure rollers and can move further away from or closer to the workbed. The arbors are each powered by an electric motor. The rotatable fence, the side pressure rollers and the spiked rollers are all powered by hydraulic motors connected to a single power source and all rotate at the same speed at any given time. The side pressure rollers are automatically adjustable so that they exert pressure towards the rotatable fence on any wood that is located between said rollers and said fence.

Abstract: A cutter for sheet materials such as plasterboard and the like which employs a pair of axially spaced, copolanar circular blades with circumferential edges in adjacent noncontacting relationship. Both blades are driven but under conditions such that an edge speed differential exists between the blades. Supported sheet material is passed between the nip region between the blades to effectuate cutting. During cutting, the sheet material is self-propelled through the nip region by the action of the blades. Very little dust is produced during such sheet cutting.

Abstract: A roll slicer device having an endless belt with an upper run movable in a feed direction, including a fixed skid plate having a smooth lower surface spaced above said upper run and extending in the feed direction. The device also having a slicer horizontally movable in a space between the skid plate and the upper run for slicing a roll supplied between the skid plate and the upper run.

Abstract: In treating nuts which are supplied by way of transport means and which are held between two conveyor belts, a groove of uniform depth is milled into the shell of the nut by means of overlapping milling discs, which groove permits the shell of the nut to be broken open by a subsequent splitting means.On the transport means, the nuts are separated and aligned by vibration and the configuration of the guide tracks. A spiral conveyor with a baffle is also provided for this purpose.The conveyor belts are adapted to the different thicknesses of the nuts by means of vertically adjustable rollers.The depth of the groove which is less than the thickness of the shell of the nut is restricted by toothed rings on the milling discs and annular shoulders which are arranged at a displaced position relative thereto radially with respect to the axis of rotation.

Abstract: An improved hamburger bun and the method of preparation by slicing the bun to leave a thin frangible web diametrically across the bun interconnecting the upper and lower bun portions for packaging.