A cutting device includes a cutting blade, a receiving block, a motor, a cutting blade movement mechanism, and a receiving block movement mechanism. The cutting blade includes a blade portion. The receiving block includes a contact surface including a first contact surface and a second contact surface. The motor is configured to rotate. The cutting blade movement mechanism supports the cutting blade and is configured to move the cutting blade between a separated position and a contact position in concert with a rotation of the motor. The receiving block movement mechanism is configured to move the receiving block from a first opposed position to a second opposed position in concert with the rotation of the motor.

A cutting device includes a cutting blade, a receiving block, a motor, a cutting blade movement mechanism, and a receiving block movement mechanism. The cutting blade includes a blade portion. The receiving block includes a contact surface including a first contact surface and a second contact surface. The motor is configured to rotate. The cutting blade movement mechanism supports the cutting blade and is configured to move the cutting blade between a separated position and a contact position in concert with a rotation of the motor. The receiving block movement mechanism is configured to move the receiving block from a first opposed position to a second opposed position in concert with the rotation of the motor.

A cutting machine includes a platform, two supporting elements, a sliding plate, a handle and a blade assembly. The supporting elements are supported on the platform. Each of the supporting elements includes a space. The sliding plate is inserted in the space of the first supporting element and includes a slot. The handle includes a pivoting plate and an axle. The pivoting plate is inserted in the space of the second supporting element, and includes a primary aperture and a secondary aperture. The axle is inserted in the primary aperture of the pivoting plate and an aperture of the second supporting element. The blade assembly includes a blade and two pins. The first pin is inserted in an aperture of the blade and movably inserted in the slot. The second pin is inserted in another aperture of the blade and the secondary aperture of the pivoting plate.

A cutting apparatus is disclosed which includes a cutter knife which is reciprocally moveable along a path of travel; a track member mounted adjacent to the cutter knife and which mechanically cooperates with the cutter knife so as to define, at least in part, a first non-cutting position, and a second cutting position for the cutter knife; and a magnet is mounted in a location on the track member and which releasably, magnetically restrains the cutter knife when the cutter knife is in the first non-cutting position.

A printing apparatus includes a cutter. The cutter includes a first blade and a second blade, and cuts a printing medium by causing the first blade to be in frictional contact with the rotatable second blade to be moved, in which a rotation center of the second blade is disposed on a first blade side with respect to a moving surface of the first blade.

A printing apparatus includes a cutter. The cutter includes a first blade and a second blade, and cuts a printing medium by causing the first blade to be in frictional contact with the rotatable second blade to be moved, in which a rotation center of the second blade is disposed on a first blade side with respect to a moving surface of the first blade.

A stir stick forming assembly for a stir stick dispenser in a beverage vending machine comprises an inlet passage for a tape for forming the stir sticks, an outlet opening for the stir sticks, and, between the inlet passage and the outlet opening, a tape feeding assembly to feed the tape and a tape cutting assembly to transversally cut the tape and form the sticks. The tape feeding and cutting assemblies are driven by a single common electric motor and designed to feed the tape when the electric motor is rotated in one rotation direction and to cut the tape when the electric motor is driven in the opposite rotation direction under the control of a command and control unit.

A food-product slicer that includes a camming arrangement that induces a slicing action as between food-product being cut and a blade set effecting the cutting. In some embodiments, the camming arrangement includes a camming region formed on a food-product pusher, wherein interaction of the food-product with the camming region during a cutting operation induces a slicing action into the food-product. In some embodiments, the camming arrangement includes one or more camming structures, such as slots, and corresponding cam followers to impart slicing action motion into a product pusher, which in turn induces the slicing motion into food product engaged therewith, and/or into a blade set to creating the slicing action.

A food-product slicer that includes a camming arrangement that induces a slicing action as between food-product being cut and a blade set effecting the cutting. In some embodiments, the camming arrangement includes a camming region formed on a food-product pusher, wherein interaction of the food-product with the camming region during a cutting operation induces a slicing action into the food-product. In some embodiments, the camming arrangement includes one or more camming structures, such as slots, and corresponding cam followers to impart slicing action motion into a product pusher, which in turn induces the slicing motion into food product engaged therewith, and/or into a blade set to creating the slicing action.

A method for cutting a running web includes the steps guiding the web over a circumferential surface of an abutment drum; rotating a blade, that extends in the axial direction of the abutment drum, about an axis of rotation parallel to the axis of the abutment drum; holding the blade in a retracted position in which a cutting edge of the blade is spaced apart from the web on the abutment drum; impacting the blade against the web and the surface of the abutment drum at a time when the blade passes through a plane that contains the axis of the abutment drum and the axis of rotation, supporting a knife shaft carrying the blade in an oscillating crank which in turn is mounted on a rotary eccentric, and controlling the impact movement of the blade by controlling the drive of the eccentric.