A system for cutting a web material and applying the web material on a substrate. The system comprises a feed roll configured to advance a web material. The system includes an anvil roll configured to receive the web material from the feed roll and provide a section of web material having a defined length. The system includes a cutting element configured to cut the web material to form the section of web material. The anvil roll is configured such that the anvil roll surface advances at an anvil roll surface speed. The feed roll is configured to rotate at a first feed roll surface speed that is slower than the anvil roll surface speed and a second feed roll surface speed that is substantially the same as the anvil roll surface speed when the cutting element cuts the web material.

A head for a horizontal flow wrapper packaging machine for forming a bandolier of product packages. The head includes a rotatable first shaft having a plurality of knife elements each including a blade and first and second upper crimping elements. The head also includes a rotatable second shaft having a plurality of anvil elements. A rotation speed of the second shaft is independent of the rotation speed of the first shaft. Each anvil element includes perforation and cutting surfaces and first and second lower crimping elements. A rotation speed of either the first shaft or second shaft is changed to move either a knife element or an anvil element, respectively, between a perforation position and a cutting position. The first upper and first lower crimping elements and the second upper and second lower crimping elements also mate to crimp the packaging material in either the perforating or cutting positions.

A system for controlling registration on a pouch knife machine of a longitudinally extending bandolier of content containing pouches separated by transverse seal seams moving along a feed path, with each pouch having a measurement reference. The machine includes a knife mechanism, a friction drag mechanism, and a friction drag adjustment mechanism. The system includes an optical reference, an optical image sensor, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine an actual position of the measurement reference relative to an optical reference, determine an alignment input based upon the actual position of the measurement reference relative to the optical reference, determine an alignment difference between a target position and the alignment input, and generate an adjustment command to change the position of the bandolier along the feed path after the alignment difference exceeds the operating range for the target position.

A rotary cutting module for a paper cutting device has a roller and a paper-cutting blade. The roller extends along a rotating axis. A blade mount and multiple dynamic balancing recess sets are formed on an outer circumferential surface of the roller. The dynamic balancing recess sets are disposed apart from each other along the rotating axis. Each one of the dynamic balancing recess sets has multiple balancing recesses annularly disposed apart from each other. A depth of one of the balancing recesses of one of the dynamic balancing recess sets is different from a depth of one of the balancing recesses of another one of the dynamic balancing recess sets. Center of mass of each axial segment of the rotary cutting module can be adjusted individually to mitigate couple unbalance, thereby mitigating dynamic unbalance.

The device with rotating blades includes a support structure. The structure supports a rotating blade-holder, which rotates around a rotation axis and on which a group of rotating blades is arranged. An anvil blade is further provided carried on the support structure adapted to co-act with said group of rotating blades. A sensor detects a parameter indicative of a mutual interaction between the group of rotating blades and the anvil blade.

The present invention is an apparatus and method for cutting individual label strips from a roll of label web utilizing a cutter assembly. A label cutter comprises a cutter assembly for continuously and independently controlling the rotational speeds of a rotating cutter shaft, a stationary shaft, and a label feed roller is provided. The length of the label strip is controlled by the distinct speed of rotation of a stationary knife, the stationary knife is rotatably coupled to the stationary shaft. At least one cutter blade is operatively associated to the rotating cutter shaft for cutting the label web. The stationary knife rotates with a to speed of rotation different from the speed of rotation of the cutter blade to produce longer or shorter label length strips. The frequency at which the cutter blade meets the stationary knife is inversely related to the length of the label strip that is produced during cut off.

The present disclosure relates to apparatuses and methods for adjusting and maintaining a position of cutting surfaces used to create lines of weakness in rolled products. During cutting operations, intermittent contact between cutting surfaces causes cutting components to become heated, which in turn, causes an overlap distance between cutting surfaces to vary from desired values. Conversely, when cutting operations are stopped, the components cool, which in turn, may cause the overlap distance to vary from desired values at steady state operating conditions. To help reduce or eliminate the changes to overlap distances caused by cyclical heating and cooling between times of cutting operations and shutdowns, one or more heaters may be utilized to apply heat to one or more components to maintain relatively constant temperatures during periods of cutting operations and/or when cutting operations are paused or stopped. In turn, the heater(s) may operate to maintain and/or change the overlap distance to desired values.

Process for cutting a water-soluble web in a cross-machine direction. Each cutting cycle contains at least two speeds. A first speed matches that of the speed of the water-soluble web and is also the speed at the point of cutting, and a second speed is faster than the speed of the water-soluble web in the machine direction and is the speed at a point in-between two cutting actions.

A veneer cutting and sorting apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a revolvable knife blade having a cutting edge and a revolvable knife edge receiver having a cutting edge receiving surface. The knife blade cuts a veneer sheet as peeled from a peeler block by a veneer lathe at a previously detected boundary between defective veneer portion and product veneer sheet on the cutting edge receiving surface then revolving at the same peripheral speed as the cutting edge of the knife blade. Cut-off defective portion is allowed to drop off by its own weight.

The invention relates to a method for cross-cutting a material web (1), in particular a pulp web or the like, that is moved in a direction of movement (2), wherein the material web (1) is moved through between two axes of rotation oriented approximately perpendicularly to the direction of movement (2), about which axes of rotation cooperating blades (3, 4) are moved with a rotary movement, said blades (3, 4) cutting the material web (1) approximately perpendicularly to the direction of movement (2) as said material web (1) passes through between the axes of rotation. In order to achieve a high-quality cut edge with little noise pollution and high system availability, the invention provides that, after the material web (1) has been cut, a force is applied to a part of the material web (1) that is carried along with a blade (3, 4) and in particular a part of the material web (1) that bears against a blade (3, 4), in order to separate the material web (1) from the rotary movement of the blade (3, 4). Furthermore, the invention relates to a device for cross-cutting a material web (1) that is moved in a direction of movement (2), having at least two cooperating blades (3, 4), which are rotatable about axes of rotation arranged approximately perpendicularly to the direction of movement (2), wherein the material web (1) is movable through between the axes of rotation, such that the material web (1) is able to be cut by the blades (3, 4) approximately transversely to the direction of movement (2).