The present invention relates to a device for providing a dough piece on a movable substrate, comprising a substrate, movable in a transport direction for dough pieces with a substrate speed, at least one dough supplier, configured for continuously supplying a dough stream in a supply direction with a supply speed to at least one dispensing opening, arranged above a movable substrate; wherein the plane of the dispensing opening has a directional component perpendicular to the transport direction, a knife, arranged movable with respect to the dispensing opening, with a directional component parallel to the plane of the opening for cutting the dough stream into pieces and a directional component in the supply direction of the dough for moving along with the dough, a controller, for controlling the movement of the knife, and configured to repeatedly move a cutting edge of the knife along the dispensing opening for cutting the dough stream into pieces; and move the knife with a directional component in the supply direction of the dough with at least the dough supply speed, during a predetermined interval directly succeeding a cut.

A log saw for cutting convolutely wound logs of web material is disclosed. The log saw comprises a cutting blade operating in a cutting plane, a log saw clamp for the retention of a convolutely wound log of web material such that the convolutely wound log of web material extends in a log advancing path through to the cutting plane, and control means connected to the clamping device.

A log saw clamp for temporarily restraining a convolutely wound log of web material for a log saw is disclosed. The log saw clamp comprises a support structure having a first and second cam disposed therein, a pair of opposed first and second paddles, and a first and second linkage.

A log saw clamp for temporarily restraining a convolutely wound log of web material for a log saw is disclosed. The log saw clamp comprises a support structure having a first and second cam disposed therein, a pair of opposed first and second paddles, and a first and second linkage.

An array of finished products, each finished product in the array having a length relative error of less than 0.81% of a target length, H is disclosed.

A method for providing a nonlinear line of weakness on a web material includes: providing a counter component comprising a nonlinear shape, where the nonlinear shape has a shape width, W; providing a blade in operative relationship with the counter component and comprising a plurality of teeth; rotating at least one of the blade and the counter component into interacting relationship with the other of the blade and the counter component; feeding a web between the counter component and the blade such that while in interacting relationship the blade cooperates with the counter component to perforate the web, wherein the web is moving in a machine direction; and reciprocally shifting one of the counter component and the blade for a distance, D, in a shifting direction, wherein D is at least the translational distance that one tooth travels to cover the shape width, W.

An apparatus for transverse cutting of a web has a frame straddling the web path, a side frame on each side of the web path and an upper frame between the two side frames, a circular saw blade suspended in a pendulum arm pivotably connected to the upper frame, a swinging drive for controlling the swinging movement of the saw blade, wherein the pendulum arm is pivotably mounted in a vertically movable sub-frame of the upper frame, and the vertical movement of the sub-frame relative to the upper frame is managed by a lifting drive that is coordinated with the swinging drive. Also disclosed is a method for transverse cutting a web.