Abstract: Transfer tables are selectively provided at opposite ends of one of several stationary work tables, and an automatic controller is programmed to cause a gantry to spread sheet material from a roll on one transfer table onto the work table and a cross carriage on the gantry has a label applicator to apply labels to predetermined areas of the sheet material during return movement of the gantry onto the one transfer table. Another transfer table has a conventional cutter which is programmed to cut the sheet material after it is so spread, and labeled, following which cutting step the cutter head and its carriage can be returned to said another transfer table. Both of these transfer tables can be moved on tracks from these positions adjacent the ends of the said work table to other work tables.

Abstract: A drive system for the cutting station in a platen press has four toggle joints supporting the platen and each having a cam follower for moving the toggle joint by an associated rotating cam. The four toggle joints are disposed in pairs perpendicularly to the transport direction of sheets in the press. The pairs of toggle joints are aligned, with one pair of toggle joints being disposed between the other pair. The toggle joints are connected to a release device controlled by a security coupling. The cams are mounted on a common shaft provided at one end with a braking mechanism. Declutching of the security coupling simultaneously commands operation of each release device and of the braking mechanism.

Abstract: To permit continuous adjustment of separating rollers (10, 11) positioned downstream of cutter cylinders (3, 4) cutting sheets (7) from a continuous web (1) during operation of the machine, to adjust for different lengths of cut sheets, and accelerate the cut sheets to the circumferential speed of a gripper apparatus, the separating cylinders (10, 11) are mounted on a first carrier structure (38) which is longitudinally moveable independently of the drive therefore with respect to transport belts (8, 9) passing beneath the separating rollers, the adjustment spacing between the separating rollers being controllable, for example by compressed air cylinders (55). Drives, in order to reduce noise, preferably are by gear belts driven from the cutter cylinders, to provide for synchronized operation of the transport or conveyor belts, the separating cylinders (10, 11) and of subsequent transport apparatus, such as a gripper cylinder (12).

Abstract: A car on tracks behind the knives of a shear machine, has a section for receiving product cuttings when the car occupies one position on the tracks, and means are provided for receiving scrap cuttings when the car is moved to another position, the car being capable of additional movement on the tracks to a position to the rear of the machine for convenient disposal of cuttings carried by it. Work support carried by the car, supports work prior to shearing and, when possessed of magnetic qualities, will magnetically grip the work and enable adjustment thereof for shearing, by movement of the car. In lieu of magnet work supports, roller supports may be provided, and such roller supports may be power driven.

Abstract: A cutting machine, especially for foodstuffs such as wurst, forms slices of the product which are picked up on a cylindrical drum which has retractable pins and which, upon take-up of the slices, deposits them upon a plate by swinging downwardly toward the latter. The pins are retracted by the downward swinging movement to release the slices.

Abstract: There is disclosed an envelope processing machine in the form of an improved envelope cutter apparatus adapted to sever one edge of envelopes in one by one relationship. The apparatus includes a supply hopper for retaining the envelopes to be processed, cutting means for severing one edge of the envelopes, means for removing envelopes in one by one relationship from the supply hopper and for transmitting the removed envelopes to the cutting means, and means for orienting the envelopes in respect to the cutting means. The orienting means includes a plurality of angularly disposed feed belts operable upon the envelope and an abutment member against which an envelope is engaged in its movement to the cutting means.

Abstract: Apparatus for marshalling glass sheets comprises a conveyor capable of conveying an array of sheets lying in a transverse sheet array across the conveyor to a sheet removal station, transverse conveying means extending transversely above the conveyor and transfer means operable to transfer a sheet or sheets from the conveyor to the transverse conveying means at the sheet removal station. The transfer means includes a plurality of selectively and separately operable transfer devices, such as lifting devices, extending in an array across the array of sheet positions, and control means for controlling simultaneous operation of selected transfer devices.

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: The present machine peels strips of sod from the ground and conveys them upwardly and rearwardly to power driven horizontal rollers. Cutting knives just ahead of these rollers cut the sod strips transversely into pieces of a predetermined length. At the same time, a horizontal platform is raised below the rollers, and upwardly projecting fingers on this platform pass between the rollers and lift the cut pieces of sod off the rollers. During the up and down movement of the platform the oncoming sod strips are held back on the conveyor. A transfer apparatus moves horizontally between a position overlying the rollers, where it receives the sod pieces after they are lifted off the rollers, and a stacking location at one side of the rollers, where it releases the sod pieces to drop by gravity into neighboring stacks. The timing of such release is varied periodically so that the stacks of sod pieces will overlap laterally at intervals.

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: Apparatus for subdividing a web of exposed and developed photographic paper into discrete prints has advancing rolls which move the web lengthwise in stepwise fashion to place successive frame lines into register with a severing device which is thereupon actuated to sever the web in order to separate the foremost print. Such print comes to rest on the wings of two turnable depositing devices which flank the path for the prints downstream of the severing device and are thereupon operated to rotate the wings in opposite directions so as to allow the print thereon to descend onto a composite stacking platform therebelow. The depositing devices have rotary hubs or plate-like orienting members which align the print on the wings with the prints of the stack therebelow.

Abstract: Cellular lightweight concrete slabs are manufactured by cutting a still plastic block of cellular concrete mass resting on a first support horizontally into slices which are then moved over one by one to a second support and piled in reversed order thereon, at least one of the two broadsides of each body slice being subjected to a treatment before being covered by the next transferred slice. The treatment prevents the body slices from cementing together during the subsequent steam-hardening process and may also improve the quality of the slabs when hardened. An apparatus for each manufacture features a movable suction head for transferring the body slices as well as associated means for cutting and treating said slices.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a device for automatically forming piles out of strips exiting from a machine on which the said strips are produced, comprising at the top, a pair of parallel rods placed downstream with respect to the said cutting device, and supported at their ends by corresponding brackets connected to the base frame, the said rods being provided centrally with a support member for sustaining the packs of strips in a horizontal position and able to rotate, in opposite directions, in order to release the pack of strips which, once freed, falls, suitably guided, on to a collection pallet placed on a driven conveyor, located downstream of the machine, which continues to operate until a number of vertical piles of strips have been formed on the pallet, after which the pallet is sent towards a discharge station.

Abstract: An assembly for automatically feeding workpieces to and from a numerically controlled turret punch. A loader magazine having an adjustable volume for receiving a stack of workpieces is disposed on one side of a turret punch, and an unloader magazine having a similar adjustable volume for receiving a stack of workpieces is disposed on the opposite side of the turret punch. An ejector associated with a loader magazine ejects the top workpiece from the loader magazine to horizontally feed it into operative association with clamps of the turret punch. The turret punch clamps are moveable with respect to the punching tools, and the punching tools are moveable and operated to effect punching of the workpiece until it has a desired finished configuration.

Abstract: A car on tracks behind the knives of a shear machine, has a section for receiving product cuttings when the car occupies one position on the tracks, and means are provided for receiving scrap cuttings when said car is moved to another position, the car being capable of additional movement on said tracks to a position to the rear of the machine for convenient disposal of cuttings carried by it. Work support means carried by the car, supports work prior to shearing and, when possessed of magnetic qualities, will magnetically grip the work and enable adjustment thereof for shearing, by movement of the car. In lieu of magnet work supports, roller supports may be provided, and such roller supports may be power driven.

Abstract: A mechanism is provided in a battery grid casting machine for receiving grids one at a time from a grid trimming die and for arranging them in a horizontally stacked arrangement on a pair of pivoted rails. After a predetermined number of grids have accumulated on the rails, the rails are pivoted from a horizontal to a vertical position to deposit the grids as a vertical stack on an intermittently moving conveyor.

Abstract: A long photographic strip is transported along a predetermined path and comprises a succession of customer orders joined end-to-end. At a cutting station along the path, successive leading ends of the transported strip are severed from the remainder, to successively form severed strip sections. A collector receives the successively formed severed strip sections in succession and forms an accumulating stack of such sections. The successively received strip sections are held in position in the accumulating stack at the collector individually. Upon accumulation of all the strip sections constituting a customer order, the holding action exerted upon the individually held strip sections is relieved, and the strip sections are removed from the collector as a single stack, either manually or by mechanical means.

Abstract: Sheet handling apparatus including burster apparatus for separating continuous form webs into sheets and for feeding the just-burst sheets along a sheet path to a stacker mechanism where the sheets are stacked on end in the same order they were in the web. A plurality of feeding means is spaced along the sheet path and these feeding means are selectively actuated to feed any size sheet and as the sheets are fed along the sheet path, each sheet can be selectively laterally offset to a plurality of laterally separated positions to facilitate the separation of the sheets into sets of copies, data sets or jobs.

Abstract: An apparatus for preparing layered, nonbonded, structures of cross-lapped film is disclosed wherein at least two rolls of layered, nonbonded film are combined by introducing into a common location cut portions of film from said rolls from at least two film delivery means. The film is delivered to the common location in alternating order. The layers in the structure are maintained in position in a suitable receptacle means.

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: This application discloses an improved device for reducing the velocity at which thermoplastic bags, as they are produced by a bag machine, are directed to a table, or other suitable support, for accumulation in even-edged stacks.

Abstract: Food patties are severed from logs and fed into magazines. A plurality of logs may be processed simultaneously; and the severed patties may be simultaneously fed in columns into one or more magazines. Under certain conditions columns of patties are moved through a transition means to separate same prior to entering the magazines. Thereafter successive magazines are moved to a position where the patties are sequentially deposited from the magazines onto a divider web and conveyor.

Abstract: A machine for cutting cardboard and similar articles comprises a stationary platen mounted on the machine frame and an oscillating movable platen pivoted thereon to receive sheets one at a time from a magazine, means for delivering the sheets from the magazine to the moving platen, means for giving an oscillating movement to the moving platen and pivoting it, into contact with its stationary platen, blades for cutting the sheet on the moving platen and suction means on a pivoted chassis for removing the cut sheets and transferring them to a horizontal delivery conveyor and a rotary brush for wiping the surface of the moving platen.

Abstract: Apparatus for processing flat strip material including cutting apparatus for cutting the material and to strip portions and stacking apparatus having air cushion means for stacking the strip portions one on top of the other. An accelerating anchoring roller, having vacuum or magnet devices therein for attracting the sheet portions thereto are provided for the exclusive transfer of the strip portions from the position were cut in the cutting apparatus in positions at the inlet of the stacking apparatus where the air cushion takes over the conveyance and stacking of the strip portions.

Abstract: Printing apparatus which receives printing stock in roll form, withdraws a predetermined amount of material from the roll, cuts the withdrawn material to provide a sheet of stock for printing, and then feeds the sheet to a printer. The printing apparatus can overprint onto sheets which are cut from a roll of preprinted stock, or can print on sheets which are measured and cut from blank roll stock. When used with preprinted stock including a printed material code, the printing apparatus reads the material code to verify that the proper printing stock is being used, and automatically interrupts the printing operation if the proper stock is not present.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting, sorting and stacking paper or the like in sheet form is disclosed which includes means for collecting packets of sheets in tandem on a collecting drum prior to discharging the collected sheets to the stacker. The basic components consist of a sheet cutting section, a sheet collecting section, a sheet slow down section and a stacker unit. In the tandem collect mode of operation, the length of the cut sheets must be less than one-half the circumference of the collecting drum and the drive ratio between the sheet cutting section and the sheet collecting section is set at 2:1. Packets of sheets containing an odd number of sheets are collected in tandem on the collecting drum with the use of air showers that are controlled by microswitches in an air shower control unit that is driven by the cutting drum.