A mechanical cutting device cuts twisted strips of foods such as potatoes. The device comprises twisted cutting tubes, each having a ring secured at a distance from the cutting end. A plurality of such tubes may be arranged in an array, which may be supported by plates having an array of tube-supporting orifices. The cutting tubes are supported for rotation in such manner that, when force is exerted on the tubes to insert the tubes into the food, the tubes rotate as they cut into the food obtaining as result twisted strips of food.

A bread conveying apparatus includes a flight conveyer including a first flight for urging a bread, an endless revolving member on which the first flight is mounted, and a driving member and a driven member, the endless revolving member being wound around the driving member and driven member, a rail extending along a conveying path of the bread and supporting the first flight, and a rail size setting unit for setting a length of the rail with respect to an extending direction of the conveying path. The length of the rail with respect to the conveying direction is set by the rail size setting unit based on a size of the bread.

A card-cutting apparatus, provided with a lateral cutter portion to cut paper in a lateral direction at right angles with a transferring direction and plural slitter heads to cut the paper in the transferring direction, to conduct divisional cutting of the paper into plural cards in which the plural slitter heads are disposed in a row along a guiding rod set in the lateral direction as to be freely position-adjusted in lateral direction by manual work, a gauge plate, for positioning of the plural slitter heads on predetermined positions in the lateral direction as to cut the paper with a predetermined card cutting lateral dimension, is provided, and the gauge plate is selected from plural kinds having different card cutting lateral dimensions to be used.