A wrinkle caused in a separator roll is inhibited. A slitting apparatus (6) changes a conveying direction of a first separator (12a) by a direction changing roller (68) toward a first take-up roller (70U), and conveys the first separator via an assisting roller (69) which is provided between a take-up position of the first separator to be wound and the direction changing roller so as to shorten a conveying distance between the take-up position and a roller immediately before the take-up position.

A hand-held and operated device for splitting rehabilitative elastic tape into segments and rounding corners of the rehabilitative elastic tape segments and method of use is disclosed. The device comprises a feed roll of rehabilitative elastic tape, and a housing. The housing is comprised of a vertical cutting mechanism and a cutting die punch mechanism operably coupled in tandem. There are a plurality of actuator buttons operably coupled to and aligned with the blades for setting the blades to either a cutting position or a non-cutting position. The cutting die punch mechanism is comprised of a pair of mating tools, a die punch and a cutting die. The die punch is adapted to be moved into the cutting die by hand and attain the closest possible mating of said members for cutting or forming the rounded corners of a tape segment when the tape is fed into the punching mechanism.

A wrinkle or misaligned winding caused in a separator roll is inhibited. In a slitting apparatus (6), a conveying direction of a first separator (12a) is changed to a first take-up roller (70U) side by a direction changing roller (68), the first separator is conveyed via a take-up assisting roller (69) which is provided between the direction changing roller and a first touch roller (81U) so as to shorten a roller-to-roller distance to the first touch roller, and the first separator which is being wound is pressed onto a take-up surface by the first touch roller.

To easily specify the position of a defect in a separator, a method for producing a separator original sheet (12b) includes the steps of: forming a separator original sheet (12b) including a separator original sheet (12c) and a heat-resistant layer coated on the separator original sheet (12c); detecting a defect (D) in the separator original sheet (12b); and recording information including information on a position of the defect (D) which position is a position in the width direction of the separator original sheet (12b).

According to an apparatus for successively making the plastic bags, wherein the wastes 14 are formed in at least two areas adjacent to each other widthwise of the plastic film 1, and the apparatus can determine whether all of wastes 14 of each of the areas are discharged.

The apparatus comprises at least one partition plate 20 in a suction path 16. The suction path 16 is divided into at least two widthwise of the plastic film 1. The wastes 14 is guided to each of the divided paths 21A, 21B, 21C, 21D and is discharged. The wastes 14 is detected by an optical sensor when the wastes 14 is discharged to each of the divided paths.

A good-quality slit separator having a small amount of fuzziness at a slit part thereof is to be obtained. The present invention includes: a step (S101) of conveying an original sheet (S); and a step (S102) of slitting the original sheet (S) by causing a plurality of slitting blades (72) to cut into the original sheet (S) such that tangent plane angles (.sub.3) in a tangent plane, on which a slitting position is in contact with the original sheet (S), are substantially identical with each other.

Various systems, apparatuses and methods are disclosed for portioning and/or trimming cooked or pre-cooked bacon slices (or another food product) on a production line at full line speed. An exemplary system may comprise a food conveyor and a portioner. The food conveyor may have at least one transfer mechanism that carries bacon slices over at least one transfer comb. The portioner may have at least one fixed, stationary cutter positioned relative to the transfer comb in the path of the bacon slices. As the transfer mechanism moves the bacon slices across the transfer comb, the bacon slices contact the cutter and are moved by the transfer mechanism over the cutter, which cuts the bacon slices into two or more portions of shorter length.

An improved device for cutting tapes and, in particular, to a device for multiple cutting of adhesive reinforced tapes to be used in the rehabilitation field. Furthermore, the device is advantageously practical and versatile to satisfy any requirement that may arise when using the adhesive tape.

Cutting device for longitudinally cutting a film web, in particular a plastic film web, moved in a web plane in a transport direction into a plurality of film bands, wherein a first cutter bar provided with cutting blades is immersed with the cutting blades in a cutting position into the web plane. In order to replace the cutter bar, a second cutter bar provided with cutting blades may be immersed with its cutting blades into the web plane, wherein the first cutter bar may be moved from the cutting position into a transfer position outside of the web plane when the second cutter bar is immersed with its cutting blades into the web plane.

A coating removing device includes a main body that includes a blade used for coating removal; a gripping section that grips an optical fiber; and a slider that connects the main body and the gripping section together so as to be able to approach or separate from each other. The coating removing device removes a coating from the optical fiber by separating the main body and the gripping section after an incision has been made in the coating of the optical fiber using the blade. The slider includes a retention unit to retain the main body and the gripping section in a maximum separation state.