An edge trimming mechanism of an edge banding machine capable of removing scraps includes a cutting device and an air guiding cover. The cutting device includes a motor having a power outputting shaft, and a cutter mounted at an end of the power outputting shaft. The air guiding cover is hollow-shaped, installed outside the motor, and has air inlet and outlet. The power outputting shaft protrudes out of the air inlet and the cutter is at least partially located out of the air inlet. An air exhausting path is defined between the inner wall of the air guiding cover and the outer wall of the motor. Two opposite ends of the air exhausting path communicate with the air inlet and outlet respectively. By the above-described configuration of the edge trimming mechanism, it is effective in removing the scraps produced by the edge banding machine in the edge trimming process.

A cutting unit for providing transversal cuts and/or perforations to a string of packaging containers connected by transversal seals is provided. The cutting unit comprises a knife assembly and an anvil assembly rotatable against each other to form a nip for receiving a transversal seal of the string of packaging containers. The anvil assembly comprises an anvil blade having a first region and a second region such that when the first region is aligned with a knife blade of the knife assembly at the nip a cut is produced, and when the second region is aligned with the knife blade at the nip a perforation is produced. A method, a computer program and a computer-readable medium storing the computer program for providing transversal cuts and/or perforations to a string of packaging containers connected by transversal seals are also described.

Laser shock peening is applied to a harvester component for an agricultural wear application that for example may be any of the following components: a knifeback, a knifehead, a knifeback connecting strap, a straw chopper, a sickle section, stalk chopper, a bedknife, a sod cutter knife, a net wrap knife or a combine concave component. The laser shock peening may be selectively applied. For example, laser shock peening can be applied in regions of drive ends of harvester components, and/or in regions proximate fastener holes of such harvester components.

A method is disclosed. The method includes providing a ceramic blade having a thickness and a ceramic cutting edge portion, providing a primary grind having a primary angle to the ceramic cutting edge portion based on a predetermined primary ratio, and providing a micro grind having a micro angle to the ceramic cutting edge portion based on a predetermined micro ratio. The predetermined primary ratio is a predetermined thickness divided by a predetermined primary angle. The predetermined micro ratio is the predetermined thickness divided by a predetermined micro angle. The method includes measuring at least one of the thickness, the primary angle, and the micro angle, and comparing at least one of the measured thickness to the predetermined thickness, the measured primary angle to the predetermined primary angle, and the measured micro angle to the predetermined micro angle.

A rotary cutting disc (10) comprising two coaxial mutually opposed disc-shaped elements (12a, 12b) each having a circumferential edge, wherein circumferential edges (14a, 14b) of the disc-shaped elements (12a, 12b) are joined together forming a cutting edge (16) of the cutting disc (10); wherein each of the disc-shaped elements (12a, 12b) comprises one or more at least partly curved elongated deformation lines (30), wherein the one or more deformation lines (30) have a radial distance from the centre (26) of the cutting disc (10) that increases along at least a part of the length of the deformation line (30). The rotary cutting disc (10) has an increased critical speed that allows improving the efficiency of a cutting operation with a cutting disc while maintaining acceptable levels of quality, cutting precision and safety.

Automated fiber placement (AFP) cutter blade assemblies, AFP cutter systems including the same, and associated methods. An AFP cutter blade assembly includes a blade base and a reversible blade insert configured to be coupled to the blade base in either of a first cutter blade configuration, in which a first cutting edge is an active cutting edge, and a second cutter blade configuration, in which a second cutting edge is the active cutting edge. In examples, an AFP cutter system includes a plurality of AFP cutter blade assemblies in combination with an actuator assembly. In examples, a method of reconfiguring a reversible blade insert of an AFP cutter blade assembly includes uncoupling the reversible blade insert from a blade base, rotating the reversible blade insert relative to the blade base, and operatively coupling the reversible blade insert to the blade base in a different configuration.

A three-axial ribbon cutter and an implementation method thereof are disclosed, which relates to a technical field of ribbon cutting. The cutter includes a base, a traversing cutter set, a ribbon guiding mechanism, a first guide rail, a second guide rail, a cutting cylinder, a lifting cylinder, a traversing cylinder and a ribbon. An mounting block is provided on the base, the mounting block is connected with the traversing cutter set, the ribbon guiding mechanism, the first guide rail, the cutting cylinder, the lifting cylinder and the traversing cylinder; cutters of the traversing cutter set and the ribbon guiding mechanism are provided in multiple sets; the traversing cutter set includes special-shaped cutters which are connected to the cutting cylinder and the traversing cylinder, edges of the special-shaped cutters extend by a certain volume, and the traversing cutter set and the lower cutter are both connected to the lifting cylinder.

A system and method for shaped cutting of washable sanitary absorbent articles having a back layer of washable fabric and the like is provided, wherein the back layer is fed longitudinally along a travel direction to a cutting unit including at least one cutting tool movable transversally to the travel direction so as to cut at least one longitudinal side edge of the back layer, in combination with a longitudinal displacement thereof, along a curved profile.

A tool including a tool surface and further including coding indicia linked, at least indirectly, with the surface of the tool, the coding indicia capable of being detected by a sensor, the coding indicia functioning as a pointer to information relating to said tool or its use.

A modular tooling die for an axle housing includes a plurality of separable and coaxially aligned die sets. Each die set may include a cam driver that is engageable with first and second cam slide assemblies. The cam slide assemblies move toward one another along an axis that extends perpendicularly to an axis along which the cam driver translates. Multiple die sets are provided for possible use in a single press depending on the particular axle housing geometry to be manufactured. A wide variety of different geometrical configurations may be formed by simply replacing one or more die sets and inserting a differently sized or shaped blank within the press. A method of manufacturing various axle housings and the associated modular tooling is described.