The present invention is configured such that a guide bar for supporting a diagnostic reagent paper includes a groove and the groove prevents the diagnostic reagent paper from being supported by a guide member in a section where knives using a shear force cut the diagnostic reagent paper, whereby a pressed line generated when the guide member presses the diagnostic reagent paper due to a cutting force by the knives is prevented from being formed on a strip so as to eliminate defects of the strip. In particular, the present invention is configured such that the guide member is installed to be disposed to pass through a space between a first shaft and a second shaft, each formed by repeatedly arranging two knives facing each other and one space, so as to guide the diagnostic reagent paper, whereby a section through which the diagnostic reagent paper passes has a substantially rectangular shape. Therefore, not only can the diagnostic reagent paper cut into strips accurately by a blade, but also the cut strips have no defects such as bending, entangling, or twisting.

A apparatus for processing sheets includes: a conveyance unit conveying a sheet; a processing unit provided with processing members processing the sheet along a conveyance direction, and a moving unit moving the processing members in a width direction; and a controller. When a processing position in the width direction to be processed by the processing members is different between a sheet conveyed ahead by the conveyance unit and a subsequent sheet, the controller processes the subsequent sheet by using a processing member having a minimum movement distance from the processing position of the sheet conveyed ahead among the processing members.

A cutting waste removing device, installed in a box making machine for manufacturing corrugated cardboard boxes from a corrugated cardboard sheet, to remove cutting waste generated in a cutting process performed by a paper discharging unit of the box making machine, is provided with an air blowing device which is disposed along a travel region in a device width direction, through which cut processed portions of the corrugated cardboard sheet and the cutting waste travel, and which ejects air toward the cutting waste in such a way as to include a vertically downward directional component in a prescribed ejection mode, and a control device for performing intermittent on-off control of the operation of the air blowing device, wherein the control device controls the air blowing device to be on only at a timing at which the cutting waste passes through an air ejection region of the air blowing device.

A slitter-scorer apparatus comprises: a corrugated paperboard-processing tool comprising a plurality of slitters and a plurality of scorers; a width directional movement mechanism and an up-down directional movement mechanism configured to move the corrugated paperboard-processing tool in a width direction and an up-down direction, respectively; and a control device configured to control the two movement mechanisms. The control device is configured to: set a target setup time for moving the corrugated paperboard-processing tool for an order change, based on a cutter cutoff length of a portion of a corrugated paperboard to be cut off by a cutter during the order change, and a paperboard feed speed; set a target acceleration/deceleration so as to allow the movement of the corrugated paperboard-processing tool to be completed in the target setup time; and control the movement mechanisms to move the corrugated paperboard-processing tool with the target acceleration/deceleration.

An article includes a rod of aerosol generating material. The rod of aerosol generating material is formed from a plurality of elongate strips of aerosol generating material extending longitudinally through said rod. Each of the plurality of elongate strips is connected to at least one other of the plurality of elongate strips by a connection portion. The connecting portion includes over 20% of the length of each elongate strip. The invention also relates to a method of forming a rod of aerosol generating material of an article. The invention also relates to an apparatus for manufacturing rods of aerosol generating material of an article.

In a unit for a cutting apparatus, a first shaft, a second shaft, first blades and second blades individually have conductivity. A detection means includes a power source, a first wiring, a second wiring, a plurality of light emitting devices, a third wiring, and a fourth wiring. The first wiring electrically connects the first shaft and the power source. The second wiring electrically connects the second shaft and the power source. The plurality of light emitting devices are respectively attached to a plurality of holders. The third wiring electrically connects each of the plurality of light emitting devices and the first shaft. The fourth wiring electrically connects the plurality of light emitting devices and a plurality of the first blades respectively.

A sheet processing apparatus processes a sheet by using a rotary blade. The sheet processing apparatus includes: a rotary blade unit that supports the rotary blade such that the rotary blade is rotatable on a rotation shaft and movable in an axial direction of the rotation shaft; a guide member that is supported by the rotation shaft and that guides part of the sheet; and a rotation stopper that prevents rotation of the guide member. The rotation stopper is mounted on the rotary blade unit.

A system for stacking a fanfolded continuous web of sheet material of indefinite length, such as corrugated cardboard, includes a feeding device that guides the continuous web longitudinally, a creasing device downstream of the feeding device to form transverse creases on the continuous web with a constant longitudinal pitch to define a succession of adjacent partitions, a folding device downstream of the creasing device for progressively and alternately fanfolding adjacent partitions along the creases, and a collection device for collecting the folded web. The collection device includes a vertical column for retaining the stack of fanfolded adjacent partitions, and a cutting unit is mounted at the top of the column to act on the fly on the top adjacent partition of the stack while tracking stack-formation without stopping the folding device. A method of stacking a sheet material, such as a fanfolded continuous web of corrugated cardboard of indefinite length.

The invention generally proposes a method, a cutting device (1), a removal device (20) and an unpacking device (26) for preferably mechanically discharging a container (3) from a bag (2), wherein the bag (2) is cut open with at least one cut (13) and the container (3) is discharged via an opening (14) formed by the cut (13), wherein, in order to cut the bag (2), a disk-shaped knife blade (5) interacts with a counter element (6), in particular rolls on the counter element (6) (FIG. 2).

A device for cutting a strip-shaped electrode foil into narrower strips has two parallel driven shafts and two pairs of circular blades that are attached to the shafts. An elastic element is arranged between the blades of one shaft and presses them against the blades on the other shaft. Each circular blade has a radially outwardly facing cylindrical outer surface and a flat annulus-shaped side surface that extends perpendicular to the respective axis of rotation and forms a circumferential cutting edge where it adjoins the outer surface. The cutting edges of the second circular blades have a similar construction, but face each other and are separated by a circumferential interspace. A non-destructively exchangeable spacer element is arranged between the two second circular blades, thereby determining the axial width of the interspace.