Tools for crimping or cutting of an object such as a wire, cable, or connector. The tool includes a first member and a second member configured to come together through a gap to crimp or cut a wire, cable or connector and a laser positioned to visually indicate a region where at least one member traverses as the first and second member come together through the gap. This visual indication aids in alignment of the object for the crimping or cutting operation.

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.

A slitter-scorer apparatus comprises: a corrugated paperboard-processing tool comprising a plurality of slitters and a plurality of scorers; a width directional movement mechanism and an up-down directional movement mechanism configured to move the corrugated paperboard-processing tool in a width direction and an up-down direction, respectively; and a control device configured to control the two movement mechanisms. The control device is configured to: set a target setup time for moving the corrugated paperboard-processing tool for an order change, based on a cutter cutoff length of a portion of a corrugated paperboard to be cut off by a cutter during the order change, and a paperboard feed speed; set a target acceleration/deceleration so as to allow the movement of the corrugated paperboard-processing tool to be completed in the target setup time; and control the movement mechanisms to move the corrugated paperboard-processing tool with the target acceleration/deceleration.

A slitter-scorer apparatus comprises: a corrugated paperboard-processing tool comprising a plurality of slitters and a plurality of scorers; a width directional movement mechanism and an up-down directional movement mechanism configured to move the corrugated paperboard-processing tool in a width direction and an up-down direction, respectively; and a control device configured to control the two movement mechanisms. The control device is configured to: set a target setup time for moving the corrugated paperboard-processing tool for an order change, based on a cutter cutoff length of a portion of a corrugated paperboard to be cut off by a cutter during the order change, and a paperboard feed speed; set a target acceleration/deceleration so as to allow the movement of the corrugated paperboard-processing tool to be completed in the target setup time; and control the movement mechanisms to move the corrugated paperboard-processing tool with the target acceleration/deceleration.

A cutting device includes: a movable blade; a moving mechanism moving the movable blade and having a first mechanism portion movable between a first operating position and a first non-operating position and a second mechanism portion movable between a second operating position and a second non-operating position; a first detecting portion and a second detecting portion detecting positions of the first mechanism portion and the second mechanism portion; and a controller configured to perform: setting, when one of the first detecting portion and the second detecting portion detects abnormally, updated positions of the first operating position and the second operating position or the first non-operating position and the second non-operating position. The updated positions are set based on detection result of another of the first detecting portion and the second detecting portion and are new start points of movement of the first mechanism portion and the second mechanism portion.

The invention relates to a holding device for fastening polymeric motor-vehicle bumpers during a machining operation, in particular a punching operation, comprising a main frame and a fastening device for fastening the bumper on the main frame. According to the invention, the fastening device has at least one fastening-arm group having at least two fastening arms movable independently of each other for different bumper models, wherein the fastening arms have different contact contours that lie against the corresponding bumper model (1) in the fastening position and the contact contour of each fixing arm is matched to the local shape of a specific bumper model.

A slicing machine for slicing meat strands that have a cross section that varies over a longitudinal extension in large numbers and as quickly as possible into weight precise slices. In one embodiment, two meat strands are received adjacent to each other in a respective form tube and pushed against a respective separately adjustable stop plate independently from each other by a controlled longitudinal press plunger and compressed in the longitudinal direction. In addition, a cross section of the form tubes may be reduced in a first transversal direction jointly and in a second transversal direction independently from each other and thus the respective meat strand is transversally compressed to a constant cross section prior to slicing.

A cutting device comprises an upper support and a lower support arranged above and below a media plane, and a contact-free coupling device to engage and disengage the upper support and the lower support, wherein one of the upper support and the lower support is a master support and the other one of the upper and lower supports is a slave support, and further comprises a master cutting blade arranged in the master support, wherein when the upper and lower supports are engaged, the slave support follows movement of the master support.

Knife arrangement for use in for example a slicer apparatus for slicing meat, and in particular fish meat, wherein the knife arrangement comprises two reciprocating knives 40, 40′, each knife 40, 40′ has a blade 54 with a sharp edge 55 and an opposite edge 56, and blade material between said edges, where adjacent a first end 57 of each knife 40, 40′ an engagement member 58 is arranged, which engagement member 58 protrudes perpendicular to the plane of the blade 40, 40′.

Knife arrangement for use in for example a slicer apparatus for slicing meat, and in particular fish meat, wherein the knife arrangement comprises two reciprocating knives 40, 40′, each knife 40, 40′ has a blade 54 with a sharp edge 55 and an opposite edge 56, and blade material between said edges, where adjacent a first end 57 of each knife 40, 40′ an engagement member 58 is arranged, which engagement member 58 protrudes perpendicular to the plane of the blade 40, 40′.