In order to avoid that, in a spray unit for applying liquid or powdered anticaking agent between shingled or stacked slices, free-running supply lines to each individual nozzle in a contamination-intensive area of a slicing machine run freely and are also difficult to clean, the spray nozzles and shut-off valves, which are usually also provided for each nozzle, on the other hand, as well as corresponding sections of the supply lines, are protected and tightly arranged inside a hollow, pressure-tight spray bar which extends over all tracks of the slicing machine and is held at one end by means of a flexible and adjustable holding device and is supported relative to a base frame of the slicing machine.

A cutting liquid supply unit of a cutting apparatus includes a pair of gutter forming nozzles that are disposed to face each other in such a manner as to sandwich a cutting blade and that supply a cutting liquid to the cutting blade to form gutters extending in a processing progression direction, and a tip nozzle that supplies the cutting liquid from the outer circumferential side of the cutting blade toward the cutting blade on the upstream side in the processing progression direction. The tip nozzle supplies the cutting liquid toward a processing point at which the cutting blade cuts into a workpiece, and guides the cutting liquid by the gutters toward the downstream side in the processing progression direction.

Systems and methods are provided for cleaning composite fabrication machinery. One embodiment is a method for cleaning of a composite application machine, comprising: displacing an anvil of a head of an Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) machine from an operation location relative to a cutter, cleaning at least one of the cutter and the anvil, and relocating the anvil to the operation location relative to the cutter.

The invention relates to an applicator unit, a tire building device and a method for applying a strip to a drum, wherein the applicator unit comprises an applicator roller and a cutter, wherein the applicator roller comprises a roller body that is rotatable about a roller axis for applying the strip to the drum in an application direction perpendicular to said roller axis, wherein the applicator roller and the cutter are configured to cooperate for cutting the strip on the applicator roller along a helical cutting path about the roller axis.

There is described an inline cutting system comprising an extruder having an outlet, an outlet line connected with the extruder outlet. The outlet line comprises a side wall surrounding an internal passage. Cutting means is arranged in connection with the outlet line. The extruder is arranged for continuously producing a meat analogue product and the extruded string of meat analogue product is cut into meat pieces by the cutting means. The cutting means is extending through the side wall of the outlet line and extends inside said internal passage. The cutting means comprises at least one cutting edge which is pointed in a substantial axial direction of the outlet line in order to establish a cutting in the longitudinal direction of the string of meat analogue product. The extruder and the outlet line forms a closed enclosure upstream of the cutting means.

A cutting device includes a fixed blade and a movable blade that slides past the fixed blade during cutting, and a cleaning tool with an adhesive removing element that comes into contact with a surface of the movable blade that faces the fixed blade during the cutting.

An apparatus for and method of removing a protecting synthetic coating (1) from an elongated element (2) in the form of an optical fiber (3) surrounded by the coating wherein a cut (8) is created into the coating by knife edges (6). The element is displaced with respect to the knife edges in the longitudinal direction of the element for displacing coating material (17) by the knives. At least one drop of liquid (12) with wetting properties is supplied to the cut for being sucked into a space created between the coating and the optical fiber during the displacement for acting as a lubricant for sliding the coating along the fiber to remove the coating from the fiber.

An automated pizza cutter with a blade and a pizza resting on a working surface. Horizontal, vertical and/or rotational relative movement between the blade and the pizza is effected by different embodiments. The working surface can be moved rotationally relative to the blade, and the blade may be moved horizontally and/or vertically relative to the working surface. In one embodiment, a rotatably driven table supports a pizza while a blade disposed above the table is configured to move vertically and horizontally. A programmable user interface allows operation of the cutter. After the cutting process is completed, a blade cleaner wipes the blade of debris, which eliminates cross contamination between different types of pizzas.

A cutting device includes a fixed blade and a movable blade that slides past the fixed blade during cutting, and a cleaning tool with an adhesive removing element that comes into contact with a surface of the movable blade that faces the fixed blade during the cutting.

Disclosed is a multi-functional cutter. The cutter includes a box body with an opening formed in an upper end, wherein a drawer type containing box is slidably arranged in the box body, a plurality of functional assemblies match in a replaceable manner at the opening of the box body, and the functional assemblies at least include a dicing device and a platy cutting device. The multi-functional cutter has various functions and is convenient to use.