Abstract: An automatic meat arranging device is adapted to send meat slices sequentially cut by an automatic meat cutting machine and regularly overlappingly arrange the meat slices on a meat tray which are sent by a meat slice conveying means and meat tray conveying means.

Abstract: Overlapped foil wrappers are formed by feeding a foil web (1 or 21) at uniform speed from an upper pair of rollers (2 or 22) to a lower pair of rollers (5,6 or 25,26) rotating at a uniform slower speed. A first cutter (3,4 or 23,24) between the upper and lower rollers cuts the web at intervals of the overall length of a wrapper, and such that an overlap is formed by the time the newly cut leading end of the web is engaged by the lower rollers. A second cutter below the lower rollers cuts the web downstream of the overlap to form the short wrapper piece (loose front foil). The lower roller (6) may move away from the other roller (5) while the overlap is forming, allowing the distance between upper and lower rollers to be reduced.

Abstract: There is disclosed a sheet handling apparatus wherein sheets are delivered onto a conveyor belt traveling at a slower speed than the speed at which the sheets are delivered. The leading end of a sheet is sucked against the conveyor belt such that a trailing end of the sheet flips upwardly and allows the leading end of the succeeding sheet to pass therebeneath. These sheets are conveyed in lapped relationship by the conveyor belt. At a discharge end of the conveyor the lapped sheets drop sequentially in vertical orientation onto a carrier. A movable retainer plate contacts the initial sheet of the stack and is horizontally displaced thereby as the stack builds up, to maintain the sheets upright and in tightly abutting relationship. The retainer is mounted at the end of a freely movable, horizontally extensible pair of rods onto which the sheets fall, such that displacement of the retainer produces extension of the rods to accommodate additional sheets.

Abstract: An automatic meat arranging device is adapted to send meat slices sequentially cut by an automatic meat cutting machine and regularly overlappingly arrange the meat slices on a meat tray which are sent by a meat slice conveying means and meat tray conveying means.

Abstract: A slicing machine wherein a succession of slices is deposited at a predetermined location has a table at this location which has a predetermined starting length which is extensible in a predetermined direction to a substantially greater ending length. This table can comprise a plurality of telescoping sections interconnected by abutments so that when the upper and leading section is displaced outwardly it will automatically pull out the underlying sections one at a time to extend the table to a length the multiple of its starting length. The free end of a roll of sheet material may be clipped at the leading edge of the upper table section so that the slices are deposited on this sheet material.

Abstract: In a machine for cutting a paper web into sheets and forming them into a stack, the sheets are fed from the cutter to a primary conveyor on which they are spaced apart, and then to a secondary conveyor driven at a slower speed so that the sheets are overlapped, and finally fed onto the top of a stack. In one arrangement a pair of rollers, between which the sheets are gripped, is positioned between adjacent ends of the primary and secondary conveyors, which rollers are driven at a speed which is cyclically variable between the speeds of the two conveyors so as to decelerate the sheets. In another arrangement the secondary conveyor is dispensed with and the sheets are fed directly onto the stack from the variable speed rollers.

Abstract: Apparatus for use with a food slicer comprising a conveyor for location adjacent to the said slicer and adapted to receive slices of food as they are cut by the slicer; a pump for generating hydraulic pressure, a motor driven by said hydraulic pressure; passageways between said pump and said motor; means for drivingly connecting said motor to said conveyor; a flow limiting valve in the passageway between the pump and the motor for limiting the speed at which the said motor drives said conveyor; and means for periodically increasing the fluid flow to the motor temporarily to accelerate said motor.

Abstract: In apparatus for producing two-piece foil wrappers for wrapping bundles of cigarettes, a web of foil is cut alternately by two cylindrical cutters operating against fixed blades. A suction roller receives each successive newly cut end of the foil before the next cutter operates. Each resulting pair of foil wrapper pieces is then transferred to a suction drum having a sector arcuately movable thereon to produce an overlap in the wrapper pieces.

Abstract: An apparatus for stacking two separate lines of cut articles exiting from a cutter equipped with two separate cutting edges, a first and second stacking platform, and an upper and lower conveyor for moving the cut shingled articles from the cutter to the platforms. A portion of the upper conveyor is also reciprocable in the horizontal plane relative to the lower conveyor to allow easy access to the lower conveyor for normal maintenance and repair and for removal of jammed or defective articles.

Abstract: An apparatus for use in trimming the edges of folded signatures produced in web-fed rotary printing presses is disclosed. The signatures, which may exit from the printing press folder in an overlapping array, are supported from below by a conveyor belt or belts and are held from above by coacting hold-down belts. The signatures so positioned are moved past rotating chipping or cutting tools which remove excess material from the edges of the signatures. Either one or two chipping or cutting tools can be used and the apparatus is capable of trimming without reducing the production speed of the press which may be in the range of 40,000 signatures/hour.

Abstract: An apparatus for severing sections of a material web and for overlapping in each case two such sections, especially for a packaging machine for tobacco products, in particular products which can be smoked, comprising a supply roll, a withdrawal device for the material web, a cutter device and a conveyor device for the sections. Between the cutter device and the conveyor device there is arranged a holder device which is coupled with a control device. The holder device is arranged in such a manner that it fixedly holds a cut section which is to be overlapped until the continuously further traveling material web end has advanced over the fixedly held section by an amount corresponding to the overlapping width.

Abstract: A sheet overlapping device positioned between fast and slow conveyors checks the fast moving sheets by engaging their trailing ends as they transfer to the slow conveyor. A dabber roller with a spring mounting on a rotary shaft is timed to nip each trailing sheet portion against the upstream end of the slow conveyor and travel with it over a short arc up to the top of the conveyor.

Abstract: Wrappers of metallic foil are formed around groups of articles to be packed, in a machine which comprises a cigarette hopper, a cigarette bundle conveyor, a metallic foil feeding assembly, a foil conveyor, a cigarette compression device, a foil folding and tucking unit, a bundle transfer unit and a bundle orientation and ejection unit.Bundles of cigarettes are fed from the hopper into pockets on the bundle conveyor from which they are removed two at a time, at spaced locations, and pushed into the compression device. A single web of metallic foil is supplied to the foil feeding assembly which produces pieces of foil consisting of two overlapped portions which are fed, in turn, to the foil conveyors. The bundles are removed from the compression device and the pieces of foil are formed around the bundles as they are conveyed through the foil folding and tucking unit.

Abstract: Apparatus for slicing food stuffs such as cold meat, sausage and cheese wherein the sliced sections can be selectably stacked or fanned automatically, moved away from the slicing zone, then lifted and moved transversely to a ready station without disorientation or abuse of the sliced foodstuffs.

Abstract: An automated envelope opener receives a stack of unopened envelopes of varying sizes, types and shapes, and feeds these envelopes individually to a cutting station. An edge of each envelope is automatically aligned with a reference surface, whereby each such aligned envelope edge can be cut at the cutting station by a rotating multi-toothed cutter and stationary anvil which are also aligned with the reference surface. In a preferred embodiment, means are additionally provided for shingling and stacking the envelopes after they have been cut open.

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: After a cutter cutting sheets out of a travelling web has been arranged a pair of drive rollers rotated at a linear velocity at least equal to that of the web. The sheets are thrown by the pair of drive rollers and received and further delivered to a laying station by conveying means operated at a velocity lower than that of the drive rollers so as to cause the sheets to assume a partially overlapping relationship. After the drive rollers there is preferably arranged guide means for forcing the trailing edge of the sheet downward to enable the leading edge of the next sheet freely to pass over said trailing end.