The present invention provides a cutter for corn threshing. The cutter is mounted on a rotary food processor with a driving device, which comprises a cylinder with one open end; a cavity disposed in the cylinder to accommodate threshed corn cobs; a cutting member disposed at the middle of the open end of the cavity; and a locking portion disposed at the other end of the cylinder and connected to the driving device of the rotary food processor in a detachable manner. The present invention further discloses a rotary food processor with this cutter. The cutter for corn threshing and the rotary food processor both have the advantages of small volume, simple operation and high practicability.

Machines and methods capable of producing diced products from a variety of materials. Such a machine includes a knife adapted to slice food product to produce slices, a circular cutter comprising knives that are adapted and arranged to cut the slices into strips, a cross-cutter comprising knives that are adapted and arranged to produce a cross-cut in the strips, and a shear plate that is at least partially between the circular cutter and the cross-cutter. The shear plate defines a first shear edge in proximity to the knives of the cross-cutter and is adapted to ensure dicing of the strips received by the cross-cutter from the circular cutter. A support bar supports the shear plate, and a feature is provide for adjusting the proximity of the first shear edge relative to the knives of the cross-cutter.

Methods and apparatus for stripping away portions of substrate are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a flexible and/or soft impact-element(s) rotates around a rotation axis to drive a peripheral portion across a substrate plane of the substrate and/or to repeatedly collide with the substrate. At least some of the collisions are effective to partially dislodge or to strip away portion(s) of substrate.

Media cutting assemblies are disclosed. An example media cutting assembly includes a stationary surface extending along a plane; a circular blade to traverse the stationary surface along the plane, a portion of the circular blade being in contact with the stationary surface; and a guide to direct media along a path that interests the plane, wherein the guide extends toward the plane at a non-perpendicular angle relative to the plane.

The invention relates to a punch carrier for a punch machine comprising a piston unit exchangeably arranged on the punch machine, and a punch holder arranged on the piston unit for exchangeably arranging a punch. Furthermore, the invention relates to a hydraulic punch machine comprising: a hydraulically driven punch carrier and a die adapted to a punch.

In order to provide a punch machine as well as a punch carrier for a punch machine that reliably allows an easy exchange of the punch to adapt to changing processing requirements, the punch holder has a punch seat transversal to the direction of the longitudinal axis of the piston unit, and a stripper that can be attached to the punch machine and has a passage for the punch, wherein the stripper is designed such that it fixes the punch in an operating position in the punch seat. Furthermore, it is provided that the punch carrier is designed according to one or more of claims 1 to 5.

A control unit of a paper processing apparatus controls a driving unit such that pressing by a pressing member is released after an end portion of a paper bundle pressed by the pressing member is cut by a cutting blade, and controls, when determining that a front end portion of a removal member does not reach the pressing member at a position of the pressing member in a state in which the pressing by the pressing member has been released, the driving unit to move the pressing member to a position at which the front end portion of the removal member reaches the pressing member after the paper bundle is taken out.