A knife is described that is arranged for being fitted in a cutting apparatus for obtaining incision lines and notches on a cap made of plastics intended for closing a container, the knife being suitable for making notches and incisions on a side wall of the cap when the cap, by rotating around a rotation axis thereof, is moved along a path for interacting with the knife in an advancement direction, the knife including a plurality of tools arranged in a layered structure, wherein the cutting tools are parallel to a plane and stacked in a direction of a vertical axis orthogonal to the plane, the layered structure including: a first horizontal cutting tool arranged for performing circumferential notches on the side wall at a first height on the vertical axis to determine in use a tamperproof ring and a main body in the cap; a second horizontal cutting tool arranged for performing further circumferential notches on the side wall at a second height on the vertical axis that is different from the first height; and a transverse cutting tool arranged for making at least one transverse notch, where “transverse” means transverse to the plane, to determine in use together with the second horizontal cutting tool and the first horizontal cutting tool a tab portion on the main body, the tab portion being arranged for maintaining the main body overturned with respect to said tamperproof ring once said container is opened, wherein the transverse cutting tool includes at least two transverse cutting edges, each transverse cutting edge extending substantially vertically.

A control method of a tape printing apparatus the method including performing a blade closing operation using a half cutter in a state in which rotation of a platen roller is stopped and subsequently performing a blade opening operation, causing a discharge feeding section to operate in a period from after the half cutter starts the blade opening operation and until the platen roller starts rotating, and determining presence or absence of a tape in a discharge feeding section based on a detection signal output from a discharge sensor during an operation of the discharge feeding section.

The machine includes a feed channel of a product to be cut and members for feeding the product along the feed channel. A cutting blade is provided to cut the products into articles according to cutting planes orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the products and a sharpening unit is provided to sharpen the cutting blade. The machine further includes an adjustment system that receives in input at least one information on the operation of the cutting machine and provides, in response to the information, an adjustment command of the cutting machine.

The machine includes a feed channel of a product to be cut and members for feeding the product along the feed channel. A cutting blade is provided to cut the products into articles according to cutting planes orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the products and a sharpening unit is provided to sharpen the cutting blade. The machine further includes an adjustment system that receives in input at least one information on the operation of the cutting machine and provides, in response to the information, an adjustment command of the cutting machine.

Provided are a cholesteric liquid crystal film including a cholesteric liquid crystal, in which the cholesteric liquid crystal film has a stripe pattern in which dark portions and bright portions are alternately arranged in a straight line on an upper surface observed with a microscope; and a manufacturing method thereof.

Provided are a cholesteric liquid crystal film including a cholesteric liquid crystal, in which the cholesteric liquid crystal film has a stripe pattern in which dark portions and bright portions are alternately arranged in a straight line on an upper surface observed with a microscope; and a manufacturing method thereof.

Provided is a tape printing apparatus including a half cutter and a mounting portion lid. The half cutter has a half-receiving portion and a half-movable portion, the half-movable portion includes a half-movable blade and comes into contact with or separates from the half-receiving portion, a first side, which is one side of the half-movable blade in a blade length direction, is open between the half-receiving portion and the half-movable portion, and the mounting portion lid opens and closes a cutter mounting portion on which the half cutter is mounted. The mounting portion lid is provided with a lid-side half-receiving support portion that supports at least one of an end on the first side of the half-receiving portion and an end on the first side of a third frame portion that supports the half-receiving portion pressed by the half-movable portion when the mounting portion lid is closed.

A perforating apparatus has a base having at least one counter component. The counter component has a length, Lcc, and a nonlinear repeat length. A support is operatively engaged with the base. A blade having a length, LB, is disposed on the support so as to cooperate in interacting relationship with the counter component. The blade has a plurality of teeth. A web material is perforated as it passes between the base and the support and the blade cooperates with the counter component. A drive is associated with one of the support and the base to reciprocally shift the one of the support or the base for a distance, D, in a shifting direction.

A converting machine is used to convert sheet material into packaging templates for assembly into boxes or other packaging. The converting machine includes a converting assembly that performs transverse conversion functions and longitudinal conversion functions on the sheet material to create the packaging templates. A fanfold crease sensing mechanism detects the presence and location of fanfold creases in the sheet material. Based on the location of the fanfold creases, the fanfold creases are either cut out of the sheet material, or the sheet material is cut to adjust the position of the fanfold crease in a packaging template.

A wrapped bale handling apparatus configured to engage a bale and remove a wrap from the bale may include a bale support assembly configured to support the bale of material, with the bale support assembly having a support mode and a release mode. The support mode may be configured to support a bale by the bale support assembly, and the release mode may be configured to release the bale from being supported by the bale support assembly. The apparatus may further comprise a wrap cutting structure configured to cut the wrap in place on the bale and a wrap removal assembly configured to remove the wrap from the wrapped bale.