Provided is a sheet holder capable of suitably holding a cloth sheet medium while a plotter performs processing. The sheet holder is used for a plotter that performs processing on a cloth sheet medium. The sheet holder includes a holder base material on an upper surface of which the sheet medium is mounted, and an engaging sheet attached onto the holder base material and including a plurality of hook-shaped engaging elements to be engaged with the sheet medium. The engaging elements are arranged so as to be arranged in a plane shape at predetermined intervals on the holder base material.

When cutting the flat products (3) a set of the desired shapes and dimension of the products (3) is defined. Firstly at least one surface of the material (1) is scanned; scanning sets the boundaries of the available surface of the material (1). Optical scanning can be supplied by radiological scanning, preferably by a CT scanner (8). Defects (2) are identified in the scanned image and a position is assigned to them. A weight coefficient is assigned to each element from a set of the desired shapes and dimensions of the products (3). A cutting plan (4) is created; this plan (4) defines the boundaries of individual flat products (3), whereby the places with the identified defects (2) of the material (1). Optimalization of the distribution of the desired products (3) is realized with the goal of achieving the highest sum of the number of the products (3) multiplied by the weight coefficient of a given product (3) without the need to cut all the elements from a set of the desired products (3). Subsequently a cutting machine (6) is used to cut the products (3); this machine (6) cuts the material (1) without any limitation with regard to the mutual position of the cut lines of the neighboring products (3).

An electronic cutting machine includes at least one housing to which a drive roller is coupled for moving a sheet to be cut in a first direction and a cutter assembly coupled to the housing and moveable in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction.

Method of manufacturing a substrate with a cut thermal film comprises obtaining an input digital image of a design to be transferred to the substrate; storing the input image in memory; rendering design elements of the design as a single output image; based upon a bleed size value, a maximum number of negative areas, a maximum number of positive areas, and attribute values: resizing the image to include a border for bleed; filling transparent areas of the image with the substrate attribute values; creating a cutting path; creating a mask image; inverting the mask image; modifying the mask image to adjust fill areas around details, to limit negative areas to be less than the maximum number of negative areas, and to limit positive areas to be less than the maximum number of positive areas; creating cutting path data in memory as a vector path outlining the mask image.

A method for aligning a cutting trajectory of a flat element with respect to a graphic pattern present on the flat element, includes positioning the flat element to be cut on a support table, projecting onto the flat element the image of a reference figure uniquely associated with coordinates of the cutting trajectory and/or of the graphic pattern, framing, by a camera, a portion of the flat element where at least one part of the graphic pattern and of the image of the reference figure are present, displaying on a monitor the image framed by the camera and a virtual image of the graphic pattern defined by coordinates of the graphic pattern, and moving the image of the reference figure or the virtual image of the graphic pattern until a portion of the virtual image of the graphic pattern coincides with the corresponding real image of the graphic pattern.

The present invention relates to a device for cutting a dough piece comprising; a first dough conveyor, for conveying at least one dough sheet in a direction of conveyance that extends in a length direction of the first conveyor; a cutting station, the cutting station comprises at least one module carrier, wherein; said module carrier carrying a cutting module, said module for cutting dough sheets passing underneath the cutting station, and; said module carrier is movable with at least a directional component in a width direction of the first conveyor, and to a method for cutting a piece of dough comprising the steps of: conveying at least one dough sheet on a conveyor; continuously cutting, with at least a directional component in the width direction of the conveyor, the at least one dough sheet comprising; wherein the cutting takes place with a plurality of cutting units, and; the cutting units are independently moved.

An apparatus is provided for handling overlay sheet material on a cutting apparatus including a conveyor for moving work material in a longitudinal direction and a support for positioning a tensioner frame adjacent the conveyor. A tensioner frame, attached to the support, has a nip wheel and a drive for rotating the nip wheel with a tangential speed in excess of the longitudinal conveyor speed attached to the tensioner frame. The nip wheel engages the overlay sheet material applying a tension thereto in the same longitudinal direction as the conveyor.

A cutting apparatus cuts a fabric using a rotary blade and a fixed blade that are built into a cutter head. The fixed blade is linked, to the other-end side of a swing arm of which one end is pivotally fitted on a blade frame by a swing shaft. The fixed blade is urged by a coil spring connected to the one-end side of the swing arm. When a prescribed resistance force is applied to the fixed blade, a position sensor detects movement of the swing arm, a fixed blade drive cylinder drives the swing arm in response to the detection, and the fixed blade is moved to an accommodation position that is above the position during cutting and that is on an opposite side in the advancing direction of the cutter head.

The present invention relates to a metal card manufacturing method including the steps of: preparing a metal sheet having a given size capable of accommodating a plurality of individual cards; preparing a ferromagnetic insulating sheet made by containing epoxy in a ferrite to the same size capable of accommodating the plurality of individual cards as the metal sheet; preparing an inlay sheet on which antenna coils are printed to the same size as the insulating sheet and forming holes on at least one or more edges of stacked sheets formed by stacking a plurality of sheets inclusive of the insulating sheet and the inlay sheet; fitting the holes formed on the stacked sheets to pins located on a loading plate; placing the metal sheet on top of the stacked sheets; forming a metal card sheet through lamination among the metal sheet and the stacked sheets; and cutting the metal card sheet along individual card outlines of the plurality of individual cards.

Disclosed herein is a technique that improves material efficiency in generating garments and textiles that include graphics. A given product is sorted into cut patterns used to assemble the product. Graphics are digitally applied to each cut pattern in order to generate abstract cut patterns including aligned graphics. Blank cut patterns are nested across a virtual sheet of fabric in a 2D space without any consideration to the graphics. The nested cut patterns implement the abstract cut patterns that include graphics. The graphics are aligned to the positions of the cut patterns according to the nesting scheme. Print instructions including nested cut patterns with aligned graphics are delivered to a printer that executes the print job. The cut patterns are cut away from the fabric sheet including graphic designs that are aligned with the cut patterns.