A cutting machine has a cutting support for material to be cut, with a vertically movable blade bar which bears a blade for cutting the cut material located thereon. A cutting drive is for vertically moving the blade bar. A blade depth adjustment is for vertically adjusting the blade bar relative to a vertically movable drive element of the cutting drive. The blade depth adjustment includes a deflection lever which is pivotably mounted about a horizontal axis on the blade bar. The drive element can be articulated thereon at a first radial distance to the horizontal axis. An adjusting mechanism may act on the deflection lever at a second radial distance to the horizontal axis, for rotating and fixing the deflection lever.

A cutting unit for providing transversal cuts and/or perforations to a string of packaging containers connected by transversal seals is provided. The cutting unit comprises a knife assembly and an anvil assembly rotatable against each other to form a nip for receiving a transversal seal of the string of packaging containers. The anvil assembly comprises an anvil blade having a first region and a second region such that when the first region is aligned with a knife blade of the knife assembly at the nip a cut is produced, and when the second region is aligned with the knife blade at the nip a perforation is produced. A method, a computer program and a computer-readable medium storing the computer program for providing transversal cuts and/or perforations to a string of packaging containers connected by transversal seals are also described.

A fixture includes a pipe having a vertical axis that is coaxial with a center of the pipe, a cutting element having a cutting blade, and a jig assembly coupled to the cutting element and arranged to orient the cutting blade at an angular orientation relative to the vertical axis of the pipe. Related methods and components are also provided.

A fixture includes a pipe having a vertical axis that is coaxial with a center of the pipe, a cutting element having a cutting blade, and a jig assembly coupled to the cutting element and arranged to orient the cutting blade at an angular orientation relative to the vertical axis of the pipe. Related methods and components are also provided.

A movable die cutter device of the invention cutting patterns on a continuous sheet comprises a set of die cutter cutting the continuous sheet, a movable platform, a skid rail device, at least one sensing device and a control device. The set of movable units is fixed between the base and the upper plate to control a movement of the upper plate. The movable platform comprises a base, a set of movable units, and un upper plate. The skid rail device comprises a sliding block unit fixing the set of die cutter and the upper plate of the movable platform. The skid rail unit is disposed on the base of the movable platform and the sliding block unit sliding thereon. The control device controls the set of movable units of the of movable platform. When the sensing device senses an offsets between the patterns and the set of die cutter, the control device controls the set of movable units of the movable platform to move so that the shift offset can be compensated.

A slitter device includes an upper rotary shaft and a lower rotary shaft that are supported so as to be able to rotate. An upper slitter head that is supported by the upper rotary shaft so as to be able to rotate therewith. A lower slitter head that is supported by the lower rotary shaft so as to be able to rotate therewith and that is disposed on one side of the upper slitter head in the axial direction of the lower rotary shaft. An upper movement device that can move the upper slitter head in the axial direction of the upper rotary shaft. A lower movement device can move the lower slitter head in the axial direction of the lower rotary shaft. A control device that controls movement of the upper movement device and the lower movement device.

In one embodiment, systems and methods include using an ultrasonic cutter tool to cut a seal. The system comprises an ultrasonic cutter tool disposed onto a railing system coupled to a platform, wherein the ultrasonic cutter tool is configured to translate along the railing system. The system further comprises a power source electrically coupled to the ultrasonic cutter tool, and an alignment mold disposed parallel to the railing system and offset by a distance. The system further comprises one or more roller bearing carriages coupled to the railing system, wherein each of the one or more roller bearing carriages comprises a set of roller bearings, wherein each set of roller bearings is disposed over the alignment mold, wherein each set of roller bearings is configured to translate along the alignment mold as each of the one or more roller bearing carriages translates along the railing system.

A manual food processor includes a base, a plurality of blades coupled to the base and extending from the base in a vertical direction, a rod coupled to the base and oriented at an acute angle relative to the vertical direction of the blade, and a carriage slidable along the rod from a top end of the rod to a bottom end of the rod. The carriage is configured to support a food item from below the food item and to push the food item from above the food item. The carriage is positioned entirely on a first side of the plurality of blades when at the top end of the rod and is intersected by the plurality of blades at the bottom end of the rod.

A cutting apparatus includes a cutting unit that has a spindle with an annular cutting blade mounted to a tip part of the spindle through a blade mount, and a determining unit. The determining unit has a second flow path that is connected to a first flow path in a mounter of the blade mount for causing a negative or positive pressure to act on the first flow path, a measuring device that obtains a measured value of at least one of a pressure and a flow rate in the second flow path, and a screw-engaged state determining section that determines that a screw-engaged state of a fixed nut with a boss section of the mounter where the cutting blade is disposed is defective in a case where the measured value when the negative or positive pressure acts on the first flow path indicates an abnormal value.

A vertical slicer includes a frame having a cover plate with a central opening and a hopper positioned over the opening. A carriage having a deck and a main cutting blade is attached to a spring-loaded plunger for reciprocating vertical movement within the frame. A tray collects food items cut by the main blade, which can be selectively adjusted to change a slicing thickness. A locking switch is configured to lock the plunger and carriage in a lowered locked position.