An apparatus for severing a workpiece having a cutting mechanism operable to cut the workpiece substantially along a selected course; drive mechanism operable to drive the cutting mechanism to cut the workpiece; a transport assembly operable to guide the workpiece in movement relative to a predetermined severing position and with respect to the cutting mechanism; and a frame mounting the cutting mechanism and transport assembly in predetermined relation to each other and relative to the severing position so that the drive mechanism is operable to drive the cutting mechanism to cut the workpiece in the severing position.

During an assembly process for an aircraft, segments of the fuselage are fabricated separately prior to joining the segments together to form the complete fuselage. In order to ensure that abutting ends of the segments mate together correctly, a machining process is performed along the edges of the segments at their ends. One embodiment comprises a trim-tool assembly for machining proximate to an edge of a workpiece. The trim-tool assembly includes an indexing cart configured to mount to a track secured to a surface of the workpiece, where a setting on the indexing cart varies a distance between a centerline of the track and the edge of the workpiece. The trim-tool assembly further includes a tool cart configured to mount to and translate along the track, where the tool cart includes a process tool that performs a machining process on the workpiece at a fixed distance from the centerline of the track.

A bread cutting machine has a circular blade that is moveable in a guide gap through an extension gap of a machine housing from a waiting position into a cutting space. When the blade is in the waiting position, the guide gap is coverable by a rocker displaceable away from the guide gap simultaneously with the extension of the blade from the waiting position, whereby the guide gap is opened. A cover plate is rigidly fastened to a side surface of the rocker, projects vertically away from the rocker, and covers the extension gap whenever the blade is in the waiting position. By a positive guide, the cover plate is moveable away from the extension gap simultaneously with the movement of the rocker, whereby the extension gap is opened.

A device for machine-making a dunnage product from a single- or multi-ply continuous paper web may include a delivery conveyor configured to draw the paper web into the device in a conveying direction; a cutter configured to separate the dunnage product from a three-dimensional strand of dunnage material formed from the paper web within the device; and a removal conveyor positioned after the cutter in the conveying direction and configured to remove the separated dunnage product from the cutter.

A cutting system includes an articulated robot and a cutting device, and the cutting device includes a body and a cutter unit. The body includes a motor that rotates a rotary blade. The cutter unit includes a case housing a part of the rotary blade and a guiding part linked to the case and housing another part of the rotary blade, and has, between the case and the guiding part, a space for cutting into which an object to be cut (a film) is introduced. The articulated robot moves the cutting device and the object to be cut relative to each other. A part of the rotary blade is exposed in the space for cutting, and the cutter unit of the cutting device is attachable to and detachable from the body.

A cutting system includes an articulated robot and a cutting device, and the cutting device includes a body and a cutter unit. The body includes a motor that rotates a rotary blade. The cutter unit includes a case housing a part of the rotary blade and a guiding part linked to the case and housing another part of the rotary blade, and has, between the case and the guiding part, a space for cutting into which an object to be cut (a film) is introduced. The articulated robot moves the cutting device and the object to be cut relative to each other. A part of the rotary blade is exposed in the space for cutting, and the cutter unit of the cutting device is attachable to and detachable from the body.

Disclosed is a cutting apparatus and method of cutting an insulative material. Said insulative material may be either flexible or rigid in nature. The insulative material is cut via a passive cutting wheel driven across a platen and engaged to a stationary drive belt about the passive cutting wheel axis. Engagement of the stationary drive belt with the passive cutting wheel axis results in a turning of the passive cutting wheel.

A system that converts sheet material into packaging templates includes a converting assembly that performs conversion functions, such as cutting, creasing, and scoring, on the sheet material as the sheet material moves through the converting machine in a first direction. The converting assembly may be mounted on a frame such that the converting assembly is elevated above a support surface. One or more longhead converting tools performs conversion functions on the sheet material in a first direction and a crosshead converting tool performs conversion functions on the sheet material in a second direction in order to create packaging templates.

A system that converts sheet material into packaging templates includes a converting assembly that performs conversion functions, such as cutting, creasing, and scoring, on the sheet material as the sheet material moves through the converting machine in a first direction. The converting assembly may be mounted on a frame such that the converting assembly is elevated above a support surface. One or more longhead converting tools performs conversion functions on the sheet material in a first direction and a crosshead converting tool performs conversion functions on the sheet material in a second direction in order to create packaging templates.

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.