Abstract: The present invention provides a method for cutting a panel substrate and a substrate cutting apparatus. The substrate cutting apparatus comprises a first cutting unit and a second cutting unit. The method comprises the following steps: cutting off a first residual material and a second residual material at two opposite sides of the panel substrate; cutting off a third residual material and a fourth residual material at another two opposite sides of the panel substrate; cutting the panel substrate into a plurality of elongated substrates; and cutting each of the elongated substrates into the panel units. The present invention can reduce a process time for cutting the panel substrate.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a device (1) for the rotative scoring of flat printed products in order to prepare a bending line, particularly in a brochure cover that is supplied in the form of a sheet (2), with said device featuring at least one pair of scoring tools (11.1, 11.2) that consists of a scoring knife (12) and an assigned scoring matrix (13), with the scoring tools (12, 13) being arranged on a first and a second scoring shaft (14.1, 14.2) that are arranged parallel to one another and driven in opposite directions, and with said device also featuring at least one pair of transport rollers (30) that is arranged axially adjacent to the pair of scoring tools (11.1, 11.2) and consists of a first and a second transport roller (31, 32) that effectively clamp the sheet (2) between one another with respect to its transport, wherein it is proposed that the first transport roller (31) is arranged on the first scoring shaft (14.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting liquid crystal display panels is disclosed in the present invention. The apparatus includes at least one table receiving bonded mother substrates having a plurality of unit liquid crystal display panels, at least one cutting wheel forming a scribing line on a surface of the bonded mother substrates, and a suction unit coupled to the at least one cutting wheel and sucking in glass debris on the surface of the bonded mother substrates.

Abstract: In a method of cutting a plasma display panel, a front glass substrate and a rear glass substrate are sealed so as to face each other. The front glass substrate and the rear glass substrate are sandwiched between pairs of rotating cutters, and the pairs of rotating cutters are pressed onto the front glass substrate and the rear glass substrate to be in contact therewith so that the rotating cutters are run thereon in order to cut the substrates.

Abstract: A clamping device (50) is installed on a stand (10) with a hollow rectangular parallelepiped shape such that at least one place at a side edge portion of a mother board transported in the stand (10) is clamped. A pair of substrate-cutting devices for cutting the mother substrate, clamped by the clamping device (50), from its upper face and lower face is provided on a scribing device guide body (30). The scribing device guide body (30) is reciprocally movable along one side of the hollow rectangular parallelepiped. The pair of substrate-cutting devices is installed so as to be movable along the direction perpendicular to the movement direction of the scribing device guide body (30). The mother substrate clamped by the clamping device is supported by a substrate-supporting device (20).

Abstract: Disclosed is a rotary cutter including a first roll and a second roll. With contact peripheries of the first roll being pressed against contact peripheries of the second roll, the first roll and the second roll are driven to rotate in synchronism with each other so that a first cutting blade is opposed to a second abutment at a distance apart and a second cutting blade is opposed to a first abutment at a distance apart. When fed between the first roll and the second roll, a workpiece is cut only halfway through the thickness from both sides thereof.

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: A separation apparatus comprising a first and a second scribing means for scribing front and rear surfaces of a first mother substrate made of a brittle material along first predetermined scribing lines previously provided on the front and rear surfaces of the first mother substrate, the first and second scribing means being opposed to each other on an upper side and a lower side, and a holding and transferring means for holding and transferring the first mother substrate so that the first predetermined scribing lines of the first mother substrate are located between the first and second scribing means.

Abstract: Disclosed is a rotary cutter including a first roll and a second roll. With contact peripheries of the first roll being pressed against contact peripheries of the second roll, the first roll and the second roll are driven to rotate in synchronism with each other so that a first cutting blade is opposed to a second abutment at a distance apart and a second cutting blade is opposed to a first abutment at a distance apart. When fed between the first roll and the second roll, a workpiece is cut only halfway through the thickness from both sides thereof.

Abstract: A method for controlling a slitter-scorer apparatus in which a feed line for a paperboard sheet does not need to be stopped when order specification of cutting or scoring for the paperboard sheet has been changed, thereby reducing a setup time, is proposed.

Abstract: A device for cutting a liquid crystal display panel includes a first scribing unit for forming a first scribing line at first and second mother substrates by using first and second wheels and pressing at least a portion of the first scribing line with a first roll, a second scribing unit for forming a second scribing line at the first and second mother substrates by using third and fourth wheels and pressing at least a portion of the second scribing line with a second roll, and a first rotating unit for rotating the first and second mother substrates to form the second scribing line.

Abstract: In a device for cutting single blister packs from a blister band, a cutting member acts in a longitudinal direction with respect to the blister band, along the longitudinal edges thereof, so as to cut side extending strips of the blister band which extend beyond the length of the blister pack being produced. Cut out elements operate in alignment with a cutting line of the cutting member to cut shaped pieces of the blister band, so as to define corner zones of the blister packs. Shearing means operate crosswise to the blister band, in alignment with the corner zones defined by the cut out means, to separate single blister packs. The position of the cutting means and cut out means and/or the shearing means can be adjusted to produce blister packs having different sizes.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for cutting a laminate made of a brittle material and a plastic with a cutting tool is described. The plastic is heated up, thereby lowering its viscosity, at least in the region of a predetermined cutting line. A cutting tool is placed onto the plastic side of the laminate, the loading pressure being adjustable. By moving cutting tool relative to the laminate along the predetermined cutting line, the plastic is severed; at the same time the brittle material is scored, thereby inducing a mechanical stress. If appropriate, the mechanical stress along the cutting line is subsequently increased to exceed the rupture strength of the scored brittle material. A preferred application is the cutting of thin glass or glass-ceramic/plastic laminates.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for treating foam board to permit it to be accordion folded involves moving an elongate foam board along a longitudinal pathway into a slitting machine, stopping the travel of the board and clamping it in stationary position, and then laterally simultaneously moving pairs of longitudinally spaced upper and lower slitters, which produce alternate slits less than through the thickness of the board to leave a foldable thickness, across the board. The board is then released to be accordion folded.

Abstract: The apparatus for cutting a laminate, which is made of a brittle material and a plastic, has a cutting tool for severing the plastic along a predetermined cutting line and simultaneously scoring the brittle material; a heating device for heating the plastic along the cutting line; a device for pressing the cutting tool with an adjustable pressure on the laminate; a device for moving the engaged cutting tool along the cutting line to simultaneously sever the plastic and score the brittle material and a controller for controlling the heating device so that during the severing and scoring a temperature of the cutting tool is maintained constant and the heating is sufficient to lower viscosity of the plastic along the cutting line so that a predetermined loading pressure of the cutting tool on the laminate necessary for simultaneously scoring the brittle material and severing the plastic is not exceeded, whereby uncontrollable fracture of the brittle material does not occur.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a new apparatus and method for in-situ green sheet slitting. More particularly, the invention encompasses an apparatus and method that uses a modified green sheet slitting machine so that it can provide an in-situ slitting of green sheets that result in a plurality of separate green sheets rolls or strips.

Abstract: A scoring tool that is especially useful for scoring relatively flat and rigid materials, such as siding materials that are used as exterior trim on buildings, includes two scoring members that engage opposite sides of the sheet of material to provide a straight score line along the material. The scoring members are supported on mounting members that are adjustably moveable relative to a body portion. The body portion includes a groove that receives an edge of the material as the tool is moved along the length of the material. The scoring members engage opposite sides of the material to provide a straight score line that then provides the ability to manually remove the desired portion of the material.

Abstract: A die for working sheet material by cutting the sheet material along cutting lines and scoring the sheet material along scoring lines offset from the cutting lines includes a pair of opposed, coacting die plates. One of the die plates carries knife edges extending along the cutting lines, and the other die plate includes a raised cutting land extending longitudinally along the desired cutting lines and extending transversely along the cutting lines, such that the knife edge engages the land as the sheet material is fed between the plates to thereby sever the sheet material along the cutting lines. The die plate carrying the cutting land also includes one or more pairs of offset scoring lands defining a scoring channel therebetween defining the scoring line. The die plate carrying the knife edge includes a scoring land which forces the sheet material into the channel as the sheet metal is fed between the plates to thereby effect scoring of the material.

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: A method and system for dicing a semiconductor wafer providing a structure with greatly reduced backside chipping and cracking, as well as increased die strength. Semiconductor chip structures obtained from wafers diced according to this invention are also encompassed.

Abstract: A device for sawing stacks of panels comprises cutting means consisting of a pair of similar carriages located on opposite sides of the stack. Each carriage mounts a first and a second circular saw and a first and a second circular scoring saw. Both carriages can move in two directions along an axis transversal to the feed axis of the stack so as to make a first and a second cut to corresponding defined first and second cutting depths and substantially coinciding in a vertical plane in such a way as to saw right through the stack of panels.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for forming weakenings in a metal plate (8), comprising of: deforming the metal plate to a predetermined depth to form a weakening thinned portion along at least one line; and bending the metal plate along the line, characterized by displacing relative to each other the metal plate and at least one tool deforming the metal plate along the line and over at least one surface of the metal plate with a force directed substantially transversely of the metal plate and sufficient to deform the metal plate. The invention also relates to a device for performing thereof.

Abstract: Apparatus for dividing laminated glass consists of a device for dividing laminated glass, and a glass cutting table 30 with a cutting bridge 33 which can move along a support and on which a cutting head 38 for scratching plates of glass can move. The device for dividing laminated glass is located on one of the edges of glass cutting table 30 which run parallel to cutting bridge 33. On cutting bridge 33 of glass cutting table 30 there is stop 40 for orienting the laminated glass in the device for dividing laminated glass. Thus the amount of space required is reduced. The device for dividing laminated glass can also be made narrower or can have only one movable support 5 if a support 2 affixed to the frame is made integral with the bearing surface of glass cutting table 30. The glass cutting table is not used to divide the laminated glass: only its cutting bridge is used, and only as an adjustable support for the stop 40.

Abstract: A continuously-fed flat tube is cut into sub tubes each having a given length. The flat tube has multiple ports therein. A pair of roller cutters are enabled to follow the flat tube at a zero relative speed between the roller cutters and the flat tube. The roller cutters are moved across portions of the flat tube respectively to cut the flat tube while the roller cutters are enabled to follow the flat tube at the zero relative speed. At least one of the roller cutters enters the flat tube by a depth equal to or greater than a half of a distance between outer flat surfaces of the flat tube while the roller cutters are moved across the portions of the flat tube.

Abstract: A container apparatus is deployable from a substantially flat, collapsed configuration to a substantially rectangular-bottomed configuration. The container apparatus includes a front panel, a back panel, a first gusseted side panel, and a second gusseted side panel. Each panel has a first transverse score line forming a peripheral edge of the substantially rectangular bottom upon the deployment of the container apparatus. This first transverse score line is scored in a first direction, extending substantially from the front panel towards the back panel of the container apparatus. Each panel further includes a second transverse score line substantially congruent with the first transverse score line. This second transverse score line is scored in a second direction, extending substantially from the back panel towards the front panel of the container apparatus.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing a hollow metallic body having a cylindrical shell provided on its outer surface with at least one predetermined breaking line. The shell is formed by a drawing process and the predetermined breaking line is produced continuously by rolling-in before, during or after said drawing process.

Abstract: A container and corresponding blank from which such container is formed is particularly suitable for packaging liquid products and aseptically packaging liquid foods. The rectangular shaped blank may be formed of a laminated sheet material that preferably includes a composite of paperboard web, aluminum foil and intermediate layers of heat sealable polymer. All blank fold lines are scored and an induction sealing flange area is provided around the entire blank perimeter. A unit of several sheet linked blanks is symmetrically folded about a central axis for juxtaposed alignment of sealing flange area around the perimeter of the unfolded blank. After induction sealing, the package side flange at the bottom of the unit, the resulting tube pocket is open and charged with a material quantity of liquid. After charging, the series of edge flanges above the first sealed edge flange are also induction sealed and severed from the unit remainder to complete a pillow shaped package.

Abstract: The invention includes a device for separating a toner hopper from a mounting member so that the cartridge can be reliably resealed and refilled with toner for repeated use. A container holds the cartridge while leaving the outer edge of each of the spacers exposed. In one embodiment, the container is provided with wheels that travel in a track. The container moves linearly along the track past a blade that cuts through the outer edge of the spacers. In a second embodiment, the container is positioned on a rail aligned to pass between two spaced-apart blades. The rail is mounted on a linear bearing so that the rail moves linearly past the blades to cut through both of the outer edges of the spacers in a single pass. This allows the hopper to be separated from the mounting member. Finally, a vacuum system is provided for removing waste debris.

Abstract: The present invention is a device for separating a toner cartridge hopper from its mounting member so that the cartridge can be reliably resealed and refilled with toner for repeated use. A container holds the cartridge while leaving the outer edge of the gasket exposed. In one embodiment, the container is provided with wheels that travel in a track. The container moves linearly along the track past a blade that cuts away the outer edge of the gasket. In a second embodiment, the container is positioned on a rail aligned to pass between two spaced-apart blades. The rail is mounted on a linear bearing so that the rail moves linearly past the blades to remove both gasket outer edges in a single pass. By removing the outer edges of the gasket, the welds that join the hopper and mounting member to the gasket are broken and the hopper can be separated from the mounting member.

Abstract: A jacket layer of a jacketed optical fiber is cut by a cutting method and apparatus in which (A) a terminal portion of a jacketed optical fiber is straightened and grasped by a fiber holder, and (B) a blade device having (a) a pair of cutting blades and (b) a blade holder in which device cutting edges of the blades are arranged in such a manner that the edges are opposite to each other through a gap left therebetween and are on one and the same plane, the straightened portion of the jacketed optical fiber extends at a substantially right angle to the plane, and a center line of the gap between the cutting edges intersects an axis of the straightened portion of the jacketed optical fiber, and is moved in at least one direction at a substantially right angle to the axis of the straightened portion of the jacketed optical fiber to cut the secondary coating layer at a depth equal to or larger than the thickness of the secondary coating layer but smaller than the total thickness of the primary and secondary coatin

Abstract: Apparatus and method for cutting partially through the layers of a laminate. The invention uses a roller having a resilient surface of specified hardness over which are stretched a number of wires extending helically about its circumference, so that the wires are supported on the tool surface by the resilient layer. A cooperating hard surfaced roller applies a controlled amount of pressure to the sheet material in a nip formed with the scoring roller. This arrangement provides highly even score lines.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting blocks of ice has a frame which defines a feed chute slightly larger than the uncut block of ice. Four saws are mounted to the frame in pairs. Each pair of saws includes two counter rotating, radial saw blades aligned opposite each other and extending toward one another into the feed chute of the frame. To facilitate the transfer of the uncut block of ice into the feed chute, a feed assembly is attached to the frame. A discharge assembly is secured to the frame to assist in removing the cut ice from the frame. The frame is mounted on a stand in an inclined position with the feed assembly higher than the discharge assembly to allow gravity feed of the ice. A gang of blades may be used with the saws in order to cut the block of ice into smaller sized blocks with one pass through the feed chute. The saw blades have carbide-tipped saw teeth to extend the amount of use between resharpening or replacement.

Abstract: A dry-wall cutting tool is described. It has a block-like configuration and is designed to slide over the edge of the drywall and to cut both sides of the drywall to the same distance from the edge and at the same time as it does so. The depth of the cut (i.e. distance from the edge of the drywall being cut) can be controllably varied considerably and it will typically be between 1/8 inch and 6 inches deep from the edge of the drywall that is being cut. The cutting tool has vertical threaded shafts upon which are mounted cutting wheels and rubber or nylon rollers, with ball bearings between the shafts and the cutting wheels and rollers. Due to its construction the twin cutting can be done quickly and with little manual effort or force.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement of a plurality of holding, centering or knife jaws (7, 18) for cutting and/or stripping apparatuses for rod-like or cable-like articles (22). The jaws (7, 18) are each displaceable or pivotable in a certain direction. The end points of a line (5) which, when the jaw (7, 18) is viewed, is turned to face the article (22) define a straight line (2). The angle between the particular direction of each jaw (7, 18) and this straight line (2) is less than 90 degrees. This results in constantly changing contact points for changing diameters of the articles (22), and distributed wear of the jaws (7, 18).

Abstract: An automatic apparatus specifically designed for cutting single and double glass sheets, comprising a bearing frame defining a movable-strip supporting surface for supporting the glass sheet to be cut, on the frame being further provided a movable framework consisting of a lower cross-member and an upper cross-member which may be coupled to one another, the cross-members slidingly supporting a lower cutting head and an upper cutting head, the cutting heads being adapted for moving in a substantially perpendicular direction to the displacement direction of the framework.

Abstract: There is disclosed a scoring cutter for scoring printed circuit boards to a uniform thickness. The scoring cutter has top and bottom circular blades set to a gap and rotatable in opposite directions to each other. Resilient wheels, four in number, having diameters slightly larger than the blades, are mounted for rotation with respect to the blades, one on each side of each blade. A circuit board is fed between the blades, and the resilient wheels position the circuit board in the gap between the blades.

Abstract: A device separates attached multiple printed circuit boards without damaging solder connections and delicate surface mounted components attached to the boards. The device comprises a pair of disc cutters positioned in opposed alignment and minimally spaced apart for providing a bifurcated cutting edge through which commonly attached sections of the printed circuit boards are conveyed while supported by a transporter. The contact pressure on the boards is limited to the commonly attached sections as they are engaged and conveyed by the cutting edge. Minimal stress and vibrations are imparted to the boards and therefore the components connected thereon with this device. The boards are thus separated while avoiding damage to the solder connections or the surface mounted components.

Abstract: A slitter scorer including a pair of rotating shafts and roll heads fixedly mounted opposite to each other on said rotating shafts, thereby working a sheet carried between said roll heads, comprises plurality of pairs of head holding shafts having the same diameter as that of said pair of rotating shafts and capable of being disposed on an extension of an end of said pair of rotating shafts concentrically to said pair of rotating shafts, head exchanging means for exchanging said plurality of pairs of head holding shafts, roll heads held to said head holding shafts and means for moving said roll heads axially, whereby said roll heads on the rotating shafts and said roll heads on said head holding shafts are exchanged by slidably moving said rotating shafts and said head holding shafts.

Abstract: There is provided a laminated glass cutter. The cutter includes a rectangular body frame and a pair of opposed cutting members associated therewith. In use the laminated glass cutter may cut a laminated sheet into two adjacent separate components upon a single pass of the body over the sheet.

Abstract: A conveyor table is provided on a floor mounted support frame and a pair of tool guides are disposed horizontally and laterally above and below the conveyor table. Several readily removable tool and cutter assemblies, each having a freely rotatable, circular blade with teeth, are slidably mounted on the tool guides. Setscrews are provided on the tool and cutter assemblies to secure them on the tool guides in relatively opposing, vertically aligned pairs. Electrically powered drive units are disposed upstream and downstream of the tool and cutter assemblies to engage a sheet of wallboard, hold it against the conveyor table and move it between the opposing pairs of tool and cutter assemblies.

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: Irradiated nuclear fuel pins (30) comprising metal-sheathed refractory pellets are rendered into short lengths by notching at a pair of notching wheels (14) and providing a deflector block (18) against which the notching wheels drive the notched pins to bend and brake them at the notches.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for cutting laminated glass, particularly large sheets. Laminated glass panes utilize two layers of glass having a thin layer of plastic material sandwiched adhesively between the two layers of glass. The apparatus simultaneously scores both sides of the laminated glass pane, i.e., both layers of glass that make up the laminated pane are simultaneously scored so that both layers of glass may be successively cracked along the score lines and the layers spaced apart along the score line while still connected by the layer of plastic material so as to give access to the intermediate layer of resilient plastic material, which is then cut in a subsequent step.

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: Precision cutting means adapted for use in cutting, e.g., small holes along a continuous web. The novel apparatus by which the process of the invention is to be carried out comprises opposed cutting means, mounted on either side of a path through which a web to be processed is moved. Each cuts only part way through the web, the cuts from each side being in exact register and leaving a blank which is secure until it is removed by positive mechanical action.