The technology as disclosed herein includes a method and apparatus for deboning a meat item, and more particular for deboning a poultry item including performing an initial shoulder cut for removing boneless breast meat from the poultry carcass or frame. The method and apparatus disclosed and claimed herein is a combination of a robotic arm including an ultrasonic knife implement and a vision system for varying the cut path based on the shape and size of the poultry item. The combination as claimed including the ultrasonic knife can perform a meat cut while penetrating the meat with less force than the typical penetration that occurs when using a traditional knife. The technology includes breast removal station, which includes a controller system, which controls a robotic arm, which positions the grasping talon implements, which grasp the poultry item along the wing bone and pulls the breast portion away from the carcass along cut lines created by the ultrasonic knife that cut the poultry item along the cut path performed by the automated robotic arm having an ultrasonic knife implement. Prior pulling the breast portion away from the carcass, a stabilizing system captures the carcass behind by engaging the carcass behind the shoulder joint on either side of the cervical vertebrae.

Systems and methods for producing printed goods from textile material to address shortcoming of existing approaches for article production. According to the systems and methods described herein, the harvested and woven cotton may be shipped directly to garment decorators who may perform all remaining steps to provide customers with finished goods. As such, the systems and methods herein may eliminate the steps of the blank goods trade and current manufacturing processes.

A system for punching slots in a hollow elongate panel. The system includes: a die matrix configured to be receivable within the hollow elongate panel, the die matrix including at least one locating aperture and at least one matrix void. The system includes a punching apparatus including at least one punch configured to be extended through corresponding matrix voids of the die matrix to punch one or more slots at the wall of the hollow panel. The system includes a sensing apparatus including at least one sensing pin configured to be extended towards the at least one locating aperture of the die matrix. The punching apparatus may be configured to punch the one or more slots at a downstream wall portion the hollow elongate panel in response to the sensing apparatus determining that the at least one sensing pin is received within a corresponding locating aperture of the die matrix.

The invention is directed to a safety device for a machine that includes a first transceiver unit for emitting a first light beam in a first time slot and for receiving a second light beam. The safety device includes a second transceiver unit arranged for emitting the second light beam in a second time slot that is different from the first one. The safety device also includes an evaluation unit for determining a reflecting object between the first transceiver unit and the second transceiver unit, only if the first light beam is received by the first transceiver unit in the first time slot or the second light beam is received by the second transceiver unit in the second time slot. Additionally, a non-reflecting object may be detected, if by neither of the two transceiver units in both time slots one of the two light beams is received.

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.

A post-processing apparatus that performs post-processing on paper in which an image is formed, the apparatus including: a paper cutter that cuts the paper in which the image is formed; a reader that reads the paper cut by the paper cutter; and a hardware processor that determines whether a cutting position of the paper cut by the paper cutter is good or not based on a read result read by the reader, wherein the hardware processor determines whether the cutting position of the paper in which partial cutting is performed is good or not, the partial cutting being cutting a portion of the paper by the paper cutter.

In order to reliably detect, without supplying electric current or any other type of energy to a gripper, whether a rear end of a product caliber is in a grippable position close to a gripper base body and/or gripper claws are extended into the product caliber, i.e., are activated, a signal transmitter may be moved into an activated position via a purely mechanical operative connection between a sensing element, which detects the approach of the product caliber to the gripper base body in a contacting manner, which position can be detected by a sensor arranged far behind the gripper at a base frame of the machine.

A system for monitoring cutting devices in a packaging production line having a line for supplying a material to be cut, an area of a predetermined type of cutting device, and a packaging output line is provided. The system includes means for counting cutting actions of the cutting device, configured to provide a time series of cutting action counting data, a video camera to frame an area of the output line, the video camera configured to provide video data of packaging elements in the output line, first code means, configured to run, on a computer, a first algorithm for recognizing cutting defects starting from video data, the first algorithm providing defect recognition data, and second code means, configured to run, on the computer, a trained expert algorithm to predict cutting performance degradation based on historical defect recognition data, time series of cutting action counting data, and type of cutting device.

An index tab forming system sequentially forms index tabs to a plurality of sheets without replacing a blade die. The index tab forming system includes a rotary die cutter 5 on which a long blade die that can form an index tab at any position of the sheet in the conveyance direction is mounted. Furthermore, the index tab forming system includes a rotational speed calculation unit configured to calculate the rotational speed of a conveyance roller pair 37 based on the rotational position of a die cut roller 50, a sheet position detection signal provided by a sheet detection sensor 40, the number of times of sheet conveyance, and a shift distance between respective index tabs and a conveyance roller control unit configured to control the rotational speed of the conveyance roller pair 37 based on the calculated rotational speed.

A sheet processing system conveys a material sheet in a first direction; calculates an inclination angle of the first registration mark of the material sheet with respect to the first direction; and includes cutting blades configured to cut the material sheet to produce sheet pieces and a cutting direction adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a cutting direction to a direction of the inclination angle. The sheet processing system conveys the sheet piece in a second direction; and includes a guide member configured to extend in the second direction and to guide a cutting end of the sheet piece, a processing place position identification section configured to identify a position on a conveyance path of a processing place of the sheet piece based on the inclination angle, and processing mechanisms configured to perform processing on the processing place whose the position on a conveyance path is identified.