A folding device for bending a workpiece made of flat material. The folding device includes a machine frame having a flat mounting surface, at which a clamping cheek is arranged, which can be moved relative to the mounting surface. The clamping cheek clamps a workpiece which is positioned on the mounting surface at a specified or specifiable mounting position, to the machine frame. A bending means, of at least one bending tool can be moved relative to the mounting surface so that the clamped workpiece can be bent around a certain bending angle, is furthermore arranged at the folding device. A machine controller is coupled to a cutting tool drive of a cutting tool for cutting the workpiece and which for performing a cutting process for severing a workpiece which is smaller than a distance between the start position and the end position with respect to the bending axis.

Disclosed is a customized blinds&shades cutting apparatus. The customized blinds&shades cutting apparatus comprises a working platform. The working platform is provided with a blinds&shades fabric cutting mechanism, a blinds&shades integrated cutting mechanism and an adjustable positioning mechanism. The blinds&shades fabric cutting mechanism comprises a first base, a first motor is fixedly mounted on the first base, a connected shaft is mounted on a rotating shaft of the first motor, and a cutter knife is further movably arranged on the first base; the blinds&shades integrated cutting mechanism comprises a second base, an aligning and cutting die is arranged on the second base, a cutting groove is formed on the working platform, the second base and the aligning and cutting die, and the blinds&shades integrated cutting mechanism further comprises saw webs corresponding to the cutting grooves in position. The customized blinds&shades cutting apparatus is novel in structure and ingenious in design. The customized blinds&shades cutting apparatus with a novel structure and an ingenious conception enables to manufacture clamps, housings, lower beams and lower round pipes of blinds&shadess with different sizes and models by using the blinds&shades fabric cutting mechanism, the blinds&shades integrated cutting mechanism and the adjustable positioning mechanism to clamp and cut four profiles: a reel pipe, an upper housing, a lower beam and a lower round pipe, so that the processing efficiency is high.

A cutter unit includes a cutter holder, a cradle, a cutter lever, a cradle lever, and a transmitting portion. The cradle faces the cutter holder and movable between a full-cut position and a half-cut position. The cutter lever is configured to be contactable with the cutter holder. The cradle lever is configured to be contactable with the cradle. The transmitting portion is configured to move the cutter lever and the cradle lever in interlocking relation therebetween. The transmitting portion is configured to shut off transmission of movement of the cutter lever to the cradle lever in accordance with only operation to the cutter lever out of the cutter lever and the cradle lever while the transmitting portion is configured to transmit movement of the cradle lever to the cutter lever in accordance with only operation to the cradle lever out of the cutter lever and the cradle lever.

A clamp includes first and second rising portions that rise from a base portion, a first extending portion extending along a first top surface of a table from the first rising portion, a second extending portion extending along a second top surface of the table from the second rising portion, a first clamp portion to urge a medium toward the first top surface, and a second clamp portion to urge the medium toward the second top surface. A gap located above a groove in the table is provided between the first clamp portion and the second clamp portion.

A cutter unit includes a cutter holder, a cradle, a cutter lever, a cradle lever, and a transmitting portion. The cradle faces the cutter holder and movable between a full-cut position and a half-cut position. The cutter lever is configured to be contactable with the cutter holder. The cradle lever is configured to be contactable with the cradle. The transmitting portion is configured to move the cutter lever and the cradle lever in interlocking relation therebetween. The transmitting portion is configured to shut off transmission of movement of the cutter lever to the cradle lever in accordance with only operation to the cutter lever out of the cutter lever and the cradle lever while the transmitting portion is configured to transmit movement of the cradle lever to the cutter lever in accordance with only operation to the cradle lever out of the cutter lever and the cradle lever.

The present invention relates to a cutting equipment having a cutting device with a cutting element which is linearly reversibly movable in a cutting direction, and a drive device for reversibly moving the cutting element, wherein the drive device includes a pneumatically driven piston/cylinder arrangement, with the piston/cylinder arrangement comprises a cylinder and a piston. The piston has a first effective piston surface and a second effective piston surface, wherein the cutting device is connected with the second effective piston surface and the first effective piston surface faces away from the cutting device, the piston being linearly reversibly movable in the cylinder between a retracted position and an extended position. The cylinder has a first end and a second end and is separated by the piston into a first cylinder chamber arranged between the first effective piston surface and the first end of the cylinder, and a second cylinder chamber arranged between the second effective piston surface and the second end of the cylinder. The cutting equipment further comprises a switch valve having a high-pressure input port, a high-pressure output port and a low-pressure output port, with the high-pressure input port coupled to a high-pressure source, the high-pressure output port coupled to the first cylinder chamber and the low-pressure output port coupled to the second cylinder chamber, wherein the switch valve is adapted to connect the high-pressure input port to the high-pressure output port upon application of a pressurized fluid, and to connect the high-pressure output port to the low-pressure output port upon reduction of the pressure level of the pressurized fluid. The present invention further relates to a clipping machine for producing sausage-shaped products, like sausages, which includes a cutting equipment, and a method for controlling the cutting equipment.

A rope severing device for cutting a rope after a continued compressive force is disclosed. The rope severing device includes a housing having a base and a top and the top is movably mounted to the base such that the top can move axially with respect to the base. A blade is positioned at least partially within the housing and fixedly mounted with respect to the base. In some embodiments, an elastic member is positioned inside the housing in contact with the base and a damper is attached to the base to dampen relative movement of the top and the base. Upon application of a compressive force to the housing, the top moves toward the base and the blade is at least partially exposed through an opening in the top to sever a rope attached to the rope severing device.

A printer includes: a conveyor; a printing device; a roller; a moving mechanism configured to move a moving member; and a cutter that performs a cutting operation. A controller executes: a printing processing for performing a printing operation while conveying the printing medium with the moving member being located at a second position; a cutting processing for performing the cutting operation after the printing operation is stopped; a moving processing for controlling the moving mechanism such that movement of the moving member to a first position is completed before the cutting operation; and a roller driving processing for, after the movement of the moving member to the first position is completed and before the cutting operation, rotating the roller in a direction for conveying the printing medium downstream in a conveying direction and stops the roller from rotating.

A multilayer-type sheet processing apparatus includes processing units. Each of the processing units includes first guide members extending in an X-direction, first moving bodies arranged on the first guide members, second guide members supported to the first moving bodies and extending in a Y-direction, second moving bodies arranged on the second guide members, Y-drive mechanisms configured to drive the second moving bodies along the second guide members, work areas each arranged in a plane including the X- and Y-directions, and tools, which are arranged in the second moving bodies to be able to move close to and separate away from the work areas, and are each configured to form a processing line on a sheet arranged on a work area. The first moving body that is moved by the X-drive mechanism and the first moving bodies of the other units are coupled to each other.

The invention relates to a method for cutting substrates with printed images in an automatic cutting device. The longitudinal cutting marks (LM) are provided with a discontinuity (N) arranged upstream of each transverse cutting mark (TM) with respect to a feeding direction (F) of a substrate (S) and spaced therefrom by a predefined known measure (d). The automatic cutting device has a first optical unit configured to detect the transverse cutting marks (TM) and a second optical unit configured to detect the discontinuities (N) in the longitudinal cutting mark (LM). Since the velocity of the substrate is known, the control system activates the first optical unit when the transverse cutting mark (TM) actually passed underneath it.