According to one embodiment, there is provided a printer device which prints on an adhesive member including an adhesive material on one surface and includes a thermal head, a platen, a fixed blade, a movable blade, an operation unit, and a control unit. The thermal head prints on the adhesive member by generating heat. The platen is arranged to face the thermal head. The fixed blade is arranged at a position where a blade edge faces a conveyance path of the adhesive member conveyed between the thermal head and the platen. The movable blade is arranged at a position where a blade edge of the movable blade faces the blade edge of the fixed blade via the conveyance path and moved at a first speed to a position where the blade edge of the movable blade is brought into contact with the blade edge of the fixed blade. The operation unit receives a first operation for instructing to start cleaning the movable blade from an operator. The control unit moves the movable blade to a position where the blade edge of the movable blade is exposed above the conveyance path at a second speed slower than the first speed when the operation unit receives the first operation.

A perforation device for a document processing machine comprising a frame, a support member and a blade member attached to the frame. The support member and the blade member are movable relative to each other. The support member is curved and the perforation device comprises a drive assembly configured to move the blade member and/or the support member in a rocking motion such that only a portion of the blade perforates the sheet wherein the portion of the blade member perforating the sheet moves along the length of the blade member as the rocking motion progresses.

A perforation device for a document processing machine comprising a frame, a support member and a blade member attached to the frame. The support member and the blade member are movable relative to each other. The support member is curved and the perforation device comprises a drive assembly configured to move the blade member and/or the support member in a rocking motion such that only a portion of the blade perforates the sheet wherein the portion of the blade member perforating the sheet moves along the length of the blade member as the rocking motion progresses.

A blade driving apparatus configured to drive a blade of a cutting device to cut a web and includes an anvil and a slide assembly. The slide assembly includes a slide rail and a slide block that are slidably connected to each other. The slide block is connected to the anvil, and the slide block and the anvil move back and forth relative to the slide rail along a travel direction of the web. At least one of the slide rail or the slide block is made of a non-metallic material.

A cutter driving apparatus configured to drive a cutter of a cutting device includes a following drive assembly, a cutting drive assembly, a cutter drive rod connected to the following drive assembly, and a connecting rod assembly having a first connecting end connected to the cutting drive assembly and a second connecting end connected to the cutter drive rod.

A cutter driving apparatus configured to drive a cutter of a cutting device includes a following drive assembly, a cutting drive assembly, a cutter drive rod connected to the following drive assembly, and a connecting rod assembly having a first connecting end connected to the cutting drive assembly and a second connecting end connected to the cutter drive rod.

A process unit and methods are disclosed. One process unit including a pultrusion unit having a pultrusion channel, with the pultrusion channel being limited by at least one shaping wall. The process unit further includes an extrusion unit having an extrusion channel and an opening for removing the extrudate out of the extrusion channel, a cutting unit having a moving cutting element for cutting off the extrudate with the moving cutting element, and a conveying device for conveying a raw extrudate from the pultrusion unit into the extrusion unit. The cutting unit comprises a component that can be caused to move in a rotational manner and the component is mechanically coupled to the cutting element by a mechanical coupling device, such that the rotational movement of the component determines the movement of the cutting element.

A system for dispensing toppings onto a topping vehicle may include a hopper platform, hoppers, a retaining plate, a blade, and a hopper-advancing pin. The hoppers each include a hopper bracket slidably engaging the hopper platform. The blade is mounted on the retaining plate and may reciprocate relative to the retaining plate. The hopper-advancing pin is movable relative to the hoppers between deployed and stowed positions. The hopper-advancing pin may engage one of the hopper brackets in the deployed position such that movement of the retaining plate between retracted and extended positions causes movement of the hopper bracket and a respective hopper along a length of the hopper platform. The hopper-advancing pin may be disengaged from the hopper brackets in the deployed stowed position to allow movement of the retaining plate between the retracted and extended positions without causing movement of the hopper brackets.

The invention relates to tube perforating machine for perforating a hollow tube. The powered machine includes a mechanical timing system comprising a Geneva mechanism so that perforations are punched when the tube is held stationary and perforations cannot be punched when the tube is rotating or moving longitudinally within the machine.

A method of cutting a running web, including the steps of: training the web over a smooth peripheral surface of an anvil drum; rotating a blade that extends in an axial direction of the anvil drum about an axis of rotation that is parallel to the axis of the anvil drum; retaining the blade in a retracted position in which a cutting edge of the blade is spaced apart from the web on the anvil drum, the blade being retained against a biasing force of a pre-loading mechanism that biases the blade in a direction towards the axis of the anvil drum; and releasing the blade at a time calculated to assure that the blade will hit the web at a time when the blade passes through a plane that contains the axis of the anvil drum and the axis of rotation.