Abstract: A sheet punching apparatus includes a waste box formed of insulating resin, a detection sensor provided in the waste box and configured to detect the amount of paper chips in the waste box, and a conductive member disposed such that at least a part thereof is positioned in midair in the waste box below the detection sensor. With this configuration, erroneous detection of the detection sensor can be prevented.

Abstract: An electrically operated disc cutting machine for cutting discs from strand-shaped cutting goods includes a cutting unit which has a circular blade mounted in a rotatable manner in a drive housing, an electric motor surrounded by the drive housing, and a base plate on which the drive housing is installed in a cantilevered manner via at least one support column extending in the vertical direction. The support column in the horizontal direction remains open in which at least one accessory unit for the further processing of cut cutting goods is arranged. In this way, a conventional disc cutting machine can be improved in a cost effective manner and using simple technical means to the effect that the machine has a particularly compact design and can be easily converted to different operating modes, wherein accessory units necessary therefor can be stored in the same housing as the drive.

Abstract: A cutting mechanism and method for a tooling head is provided, the tooling head including a housing; a cord line feeding passageway extending through the housing to an applicator end, and an applicator assembly at the applicator end for application of the cord line to an annular surface. The cutting mechanism provides a reciprocally moving plunger body housed within the tooling head; a reciprocating cutting member moving between a first position cutting the cord line and a second position in a non-cutting relationship with the cord line; a cutting member being coupled to the plunger body to translate reciprocal movement of the plunger body to reciprocal movement of the cutting member between the first and second positions. A stream of air may be directed into the cord line passageway proximate the cutting member to assist in threading a severed free end of the cord through the passageway to the applicator assembly.

Abstract: A machine for punching sheet metal, and having a worktable beneath which are located two stores for storing blank and machined sheets. Over each store, the worktable has a respective opening, which is closed selectively by a respective movable closing device, which, in the closed position, defines a portion of the worktable. Over one of the two stores, a handling device is provided for partly lifting a blank sheet from the store and over the worktable; and, over the other of the two stores, a movable stop element is provided for retaining the machined sheet over the respective opening as the respective movable closing device is moved.

Abstract: Apparatus for cutting a continuously fed web into sheets and for vertically stacking such sheets. The apparatus receives the web between a pair of cutting knives, one of which is periodically rotatable by a motor periodically connected thereto by a pulse fed electrical clutch, and the resulting sheets are conveyed to a vertical stacker by a plurality of laterally spaced conveyor belts driven by the motor. The stacker has a pair of sheet receiving uprights adjustable toward and away from each other and which are mounted on an adjustable stop for engaging the leading edges of the sheets. The stop and the uprights are adjustable in angle with respect to the vertical. A roller below the stack has either crown portions beneath the belt or non-circular portions between pairs of belts to urge the sheets into the stack. Stripping fingers are between pairs of belts for removing the sheets from the belts. To prevent throwing of the sheets, a hold-down roller engages the web adjacent to where it is cut.

Abstract: Veneer handling apparatus having a veneer clipper at one end thereof and a veneer sheet stacker at the other end is disclosed. Veneer sheets cut into a format size by the clipper are sorted so as to allow defective sheets to be discharged from the apparatus. Sound veneer sheets sorted from the defective sheets are distributed selectively into two ways alternately. Two conveyors arranged one above the other and converging at a position adjacent their downstream ends are provided in the apparatus, and one sheet is distributed to the upper conveyor and stopped at a predetermined position thereon until its succeeding sheet distributed to the lower conveyor is moved to another predetermined position. The sheet on the upper conveyor is allowed to move again at such controlled time that it is combined at the converging position with the succeeding sheet moving on the lower conveyor into a pair with one sheet placed over the other.

Abstract: Apparatus for handling and stacking thin flexible objects or strips, which is particularly useful for labels and may also be used for tickets, cards, etc. In the preferred embodiment shown a supply of the strips is provided by withdrawing an elongated sheet from roll stock and cutting it into strips by coacting knife drum and strip support drum apparatus. A vacuum drum picks up the strips from the strip support drum and transfers the strips to a stacking apparatus. The transfer drum has grooves formed in its periphery to receive stripping fingers extending from the stacking apparatus. The stripping fingers divert the strips from the transfer drum to a stacking position at the stacking apparatus. A magazine and strip pusher are disposed on the opposite sides of the stacking position. Side and bottom wall extensions of the magazine define the stacking position and support the strip therein. The strip pusher includes a frame positioned across from the magazine opening.

Abstract: Apparatus for making paper receptacles includes a magazine fed rotary turret receptacle forming machine having a magazine defined by a plurality of spaced apart and upwardly extending magazine rods. An independently operable blanking machine continuously supplies receptacle blanks to the forming machine and includes a die set and a plurality of spaced apart guide rods which depend from the die set and form an upward extension of the magazine.

Abstract: A slicing machine with a carriage for the goods to be sliced, a blade against which the goods are drawn to form a slice, a mechanism for carrying away the slices and a blade-cleaning member which is disposed along the rear of the blade and serves to deflect the slicing away from the latter toward the slide conveyor. Between the slice conveyor and the latter member, a plurality of gripper bands are provided to transfer the slices to the conveyor, the gripper band passing around rollers in recesses of the blade cleaning member.

Abstract: In an apparatus for stacking sections separated from an intermittently fed web of sheet material, successive sections are held by clamping means and transferred to the upper arm of a first suction belt conveyor having suction holes which are at a spacing larger than the length of each section and attract the trailing end thereof. A second suction belt conveyor with suction holes at the same spacing overlaps the first conveyor and takes over the sections with its lower run by attracting the leading ends. An intermittently operatively stacking conveyor under the second belt conveyor has the sections deposited thereon by means for withdrawing the sections from the second belt conveyor.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of crosscutting a web and stacking the resultant sheets which comprises continuously feeding said web toward a cutter, decelerating the feed of said web at the cutting point for the duration of the cutting operation, while continuing the feed toward said cutter at the same rate whereby a back-up occurs in the feed direction, cutting said web, causing the new head end of the web so formed upon said cutting to overlap the tail end of the resultant cut sheet on the conveying path, conveying said sheet to a sheet stack, after said cut sheet is moved onward to said sheet stack at normal conveying speed increasing the conveying speed of the web toward said cutter until the web portion which has backed up ahead of the cutting point has been stretched taut and caused to overlap the tail end of the cut sheet.

Abstract: Apparatus for cutting web material transversely to form sections has an arrangement for advancing the material a section at a time across a linear cutting edge. A linear guide parallel with the edge carries a circular blade which overlaps the linear cutting edge said blade being reciprocably driven along a linear guide. Each forward, and each reverse, cutting-stroke of the circular blade cuts off the then advanced section. The advancing arrangement is timed to operate between the ends of the forward strokes and the beginnings of the reverse strokes of the circular blade and vice versa. A preliminary advancing arrangement is provided for advancing a measured amount of web material to form slack which is taken-up by advancement of the material across the linear cutting edge.

Abstract: Process and apparatus for folding and interleaving continuously moving strips of paper and cutting the interleaved strips into packets of interleaved paper sheets. A supply roll of paper strip is provided for each sheet of paper in a packet, and the strips are simultaneously drawn from the supply rolls and through a series of formers and interleavers to provide a continuously moving strand of interleaved paper strips. The packets are cut from the continuously advancing strand by severing means which moves along with the strand during cutting.

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 web of tubular or semi-tubular film is provided with transversely extending weld seams and lines of perforations to define bag sections and it is cooled while being fed to a severing and stacking station where the leading bag section is severed from the film and deposited on a stack of bag sections. The successively severed bag sections are deposited on a lowerable support up to a desired stacking height and they are clamped to the support alternately by a vertically reciprocatable punch and by being pressed against a clamping bar disposed above the support. Each bag is severed from the web of film under the action of lowering the punch and depressed by said punch until its margins come to lie under the clamping bar.

Abstract: Device for forming orderly arranged groups of packages from a continuous web of packages, comprising a first stem slidably guided vertically and driven between a lowered position underlying the web and a raised position overlying the web, a support secured to the top of the stem, a punching member attached to the support and having a sidewall. The sidewall surrounds a cavity and includes a border defining externally a cutting edge. A die support is provided such as to have a lower side substantially adhering to the upper side of the web and having an opening aligned with and complementary to the punching member, such as to permit the insertion thereof through the opening and the punching out of one package from the web during the raising movement of the punching member from the lowered position to the raised position. A second stem is slidably guided parallel to the first stem and is provided at the top with a plate receivable in the cavity.

Abstract: A slicing machine comprising a rotatable circular cutter blade, a reciprocatable feed carriage to carry stock to be sliced by the cutter blade, and a receiving device to receive slices severed by the cutter blade from such stock. The receiving device is coupled to the feed carriage to be angularly displaced in co-ordination with the reciprocation of the feed carriage and is provided with a plurality of spikes to project from a slice receiving surface of the receiving device by an amount sufficient to enable a plurality of severed slices to be stacked on the receiving device, which is further provided with stripper means to strip such stack of slices off the spikes.