A slicing machine, in particular a slicer, for slicing at least one product caliber into slices and for producing portions from the slices, comprises a cutting unit with a blade for cutting slices from the at least one product caliber, a feed unit for feeding the at least one product caliber to the cutting unit along a feed direction, and a control unit. The slicing machine further comprises a measuring device which is in signal connection with the control unit and is adapted to measure at least one dimension of the at least one product caliber in a height direction of the at least one product caliber in order to determine a first cut length, in particular automatically.

A feed and cutting unit for selectively cutting and dispensing individual weight material segments from a common strip of backing material is disclosed. The feed and cutting unit comprises a feed assembly, a sensor and a cutter member. The feed assembly includes a drive roller and a follower roller that frictionally engages first and second surfaces of a strip of weight material to selectively move the strip of weight material to a cutter member. The sensor is connected to a controller and measures an amount of segmented weight material on the backing material as the strip of weight material moves past the sensor. The cutter member is actuated to separate weight material segments from the backing material by cutting at least a portion of the backing material in a gap disposed between adjacent segments. Weight apply devices that receive the segments for application to an imbalanced member, are also disclosed.

An object is to provide a method of cutting a laminate film by a circular cutter having a blade around its peripheral edge portion, including rotating the circular cutter at a blade peripheral speed of Vr by a rotational device in a forward rotational direction relative to the cutting direction, while, at the same time, moving the circular cutter at a moving speed of Vc, thereby cutting the laminate film, wherein the relative cutting speed V calculated by subtracting the blade peripheral speed Vr from the moving speed Vc falls within a range of not less than 50 m/min to not more than 30 m/min.

An object is to provide a method of cutting a laminate film by a circular cutter having a blade around its peripheral edge portion, including rotating the circular cutter at a blade peripheral speed of Vr by a rotational device in a forward rotational direction relative to the cutting direction, while, at the same time, moving the circular cutter at a moving speed of Vc, thereby cutting the laminate film, wherein the relative cutting speed V calculated by subtracting the blade peripheral speed Vr from the moving speed Vc falls within a range of not less than 50 m/min to not more than 30 m/min.

A cutting apparatus comprises a cutting unit including a first blade member and a second blade member that cooperates with the first blade member in cutting an object, configured to cut the object by moving the object and at least one of the first and second blade members relative to each other in a cutting direction; and a changing unit configured to change a crossing angle between the first blade member and the second blade member during an operation of cutting the object, wherein the changing unit makes the crossing angle after the start of the cutting smaller than the crossing angle at the start of the cutting.

A cutting apparatus includes a cutting blade that cuts a medium and a casing that holds the cutting blade. The casing has a first passageway in which the medium passing through contacts the cutting blade and a second passageway in which the medium passing through does not contact the cutting blade.

A film cutting device for cutting a cover film attached to a container including a plurality of chambers that are detachably connected to each other includes a base frame, a pressing module, a transfer module, and a cutting module. The pressing module is coupled to the base frame to be movable in a vertical direction, and is configured to move down and press downward the chambers located in both lateral portions of the container. The transfer module is coupled to at least one of the pressing module and the base frame. The cutting module is coupled to transfer module. The cutting module includes a plurality of cutting means capable of cutting the cover film attached to the container, and the transfer module is configured to move the cutting module in a longitudinal direction so that the cover film is cut while the pressing module presses the chamber of the container.

In order to be able to load a forming tube channel, which stands very steeply and is open at a front and top on a longitudinal side, correctly by checking and, if necessary, changing position of a product piece in the forming tube channel, instead of sliding the new product piece from the outside on a support plate to the forming tube channel in the machine and dropping it into the forming tube channel, the entire forming tube channel is moved from a cutting position outward to a loading position, the product piece is inserted there and an entire transfer device in the form of one or more slides is moved back to the cutting position and locked there.

A recording device includes a transport section that transports a medium in a transport direction along a transport path, a recording section that records an image on the medium transported by the transport section, a cutter unit including a cutter blade for processing the medium in the transport path, and a cutter carriage configured to move the cutter unit in a widthwise direction intersecting the transport direction, wherein the cutter unit is attachable to and detachable from the cutter carriage, and the cutter unit enters an exposed state in which the cutter blade becomes exposed in accordance with an attachment operation of attaching the cutter unit to the cutter carriage, and enters a non-exposed state in which the cutter blade is not exposed in accordance with a detachment operation of detaching the cutter unit from the cutter carriage.

Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for converting a sheet of elastomeric material into a continuous strip, wherein the apparatus includes a cutting section for providing a sequence of cuts in the sheet along which the sheet is separable into interconnected zig-zag sections to form the continuous strip, wherein the apparatus further includes an infeed section for feeding the sheet to the cutting section in a feeding direction along a feeding path, wherein the infeed section includes a first infeed member for feeding the sheet along the feeding path at a first infeed rate, and a second infeed member downstream of the first infeed member for feeding the sheet along the feeding path at a second infeed rate, wherein the apparatus is operable in a stretching mode in which the second infeed rate is higher than the first infeed rate.