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Apparatus for automatically cutting apart successive articles

US4601225A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 4, 1985
Grant dateJul 22, 1986
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Expiry dateMar 4, 2005

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T83/543
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus is provided for automatically cutting apart successive articles, such as terry towels, from a continuous length of material, in which such articles are separated therein by portions extending transversely across the material and of less thickness than the articles, so that each cut article has an equal amount of thinner portion remaining on each cut edge for subsequent hemming or the like. The apparatus includes devices for automatically aligning and positioning the thinner separating portion of the material relative to a cutting device so that the cutting device will cut the articles apart generally through the center of the thinner separating portion of the material.

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