The invention relates to an electromagnetic drive for a cutting device of a textile machine for severing a thread, to a cutting device having an electromagnetic drive, and to a yarn clearer having a cutting device. In order to provide an electromagnetic drive for a cutting device of a textile machine for severing a thread, the electromagnetic drive enabling particularly efficient, fast and/or precise operation of a cutting device having a cutting blade with large cutting force and also preferably enabling a particularly long uninterrupted and maintenance-free operating time, it is provided that: —the piston is partly guided in a core tube contained by the solenoid, the core tube being formed by the component which is stationary relative to the piston, and the axial air gap extending between the end face of the piston and an end face of the core tube, which end face is formed by the counter face; and/or—the piston is at least partly hollow; and/or—the piston is operatively connected to a returning element for returning the piston after the piston has been moved out of the rest position, the returning element having a progressive and, in particular, non-linear spring characteristic curve; and/or—the piston is surrounded by a solenoid core, which is stationary relative to the piston and which either is produced by powder injection moulding and/or is made from a soft ferrite or is made from a plurality of layers of an electrical steel sheet, more particularly from a non-grain-oriented electrical steel sheet.

An electrode connecting device for connecting an end of a preceding sheet to an end of a succeeding sheet includes: an arrangement member provided with an arrangement part on which the end of the preceding sheet is located adjacent to or overlapping with the end of the succeeding sheet; and a guide member having a guide bar which is provided movable between a support position to support a side portion of the preceding sheet and a side portion of the succeeding sheet during connecting of the end of the preceding sheet to the end of the succeeding sheet and a retreat position not to interfere with movements of the preceding sheet and the succeeding sheet.

Equipment for making a precut in a pack of food cups, wherein the precuts makes separation by breaking along a separation line between two food cups easier, where the equipment includes at least one knife for making a precut groove and/or a full cut along the separation line and at least one counter-knife.

Packaging apparatuses for loading and sealing products into a web of interconnected bags, and methods of using them, are provided. In one aspect, the packaging apparatus includes an intermittently advancing web conveyor that also indexes vertically to facilitate stacked loading of products into the bags. In another aspect, the packaging apparatus includes a dividing seal station that applies a center seal dividing the bag into separate sealed subcompartments, some of the bag contents being distributed to each compartment, such as one of two trays to each subcompartment. To facilitate distribution of contents and even sealing, the dividing seal station may include a dividing sealer lower support that oscillates vertically to promote settling of contents and gases in the bag before applying a dividing seal.

The present invention discloses a printing and bursting device which comprises an apparatus; a printing assembly, which is disposed inside the apparatus and includes a print head and a transfer wheel, with the transfer wheel being disposed underneath the print head; a picking assembly, which is disposed inside the apparatus and is in adjacent to the printing assembly, with the picking assembly including a guiding piece and a movable wheel, and the movable wheel being disposed underneath the guiding piece and being abutted with the transfer wheel; and a cutter assembly, which is disposed inside the apparatus and is in adjacent to the picking assembly, with the cutter assembly being away from the printing assembly farther than the picking assembly.

A cutting stock method for a rectangular sheet with defects, including: acquiring information of the rectangular defective sheet, including dimension information of the rectangular sheet and target blocks, and location information of the defects; acquiring a cutting position discrete set of the rectangular sheet; cutting the rectangular sheet according to the cutting position discrete set into a plurality of target blocks; calculating a sum of values of the target blocks, and selecting an optimal cutting solution with the largest sum of values; and cutting the rectangular sheet according to the optimal cutting solution.

A web of sanitary tissue of the present disclosure may comprise a shaped line of weakness, wherein the toilet tissue exhibits a Line of Weakness Performance Factor (LWP Factor) of from about 7 to about 30, and a Full Sheet Average Trapezoidal Tear Strength of between about 8 g and about 20 g according to the Full Sheet Average Trapezoidal Tear Force Test Method.

A machine for forming packing templates includes a infeed mechanism that can feed multiple feeds of sheet material into the machine without repositioning the infeed mechanism or forming creases or bends in the sheet material. The machine also includes a separation and cutting systems with one or more cutting tables and biased knives that cut the sheet material packaging templates. The machine also includes creasing roller(s) that forms creases in the sheet material. The machine also includes a system for reducing or eliminating the impact of irregularities in the sheet material.

A printing device includes a transport roller performing a first transport that transports recording paper drawn from roll paper in a transport direction and a second transport that transports the recording paper in a direction opposite to the transport direction, a cutter having a first blade configured to move between an advanced position and a retracted position, and a second blade for cutting the recording paper together with the first blade moving from the retracted position to the advanced position, and a guide member provided downstream of the first blade in the transport direction and guiding the recording paper during the second transport.

An apparatus for balancing a wheel includes a tool that is mechanically coupled to an arm. The tool includes a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a face surface that forms an arc between the leading and trailing edges. The apparatus includes an arm control module that actuates the arm to position the leading edge of the tool a predetermined distance from an edge of a deck to receive a wheel weight. The apparatus includes a cutting apparatus for separating the wheel weight from a supply feed of wheel weight material. The apparatus includes a sensor that detects presence or absence of the wheel weight on the tool.