Film cutter

• US 3,320,842 A
• Filed: 11/05/1963
• Issued: 05/23/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: David C. Bailey, Kenneth H. Love, Leroy C. Kleist
• Original Assignee: David C. Bailey, Kenneth H. Love, Leroy C. Kleist
• Inventors: Bailey, David C., Kleist, Leroy C., Love, Kenneth H.
• Application Number:
  US04/322,277
• Time in Patent Office: 1,295 Days
• US Class Current: 83/61
• CPC Class Codes: G03D 15/046 Automatic cutting
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/086 With sensing of product or product handling means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/2061 By face-engaging means to push product broadside into stacked relation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/4491 Interlock between tool actuating and work feed means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/4544 Multi-increment type [e.g., ticket issuing]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/4635 Comprises element entering aperture in, or engaging abutment surface on, work
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/8843 Cam or eccentric revolving about fixed axis

Claims

1. IN COMBINATION FOR CUTTING A STRIP OF FILM INTO A PLURALITY OF FILM CARDS AND FOR STORING THE CARDS IN A STACKED RELATIONSHIP, MEANS FOR ADVANCING THE FILM STRIP, MEANS FOR RECEIVING THE FILM CARDS AFTER THEY ARE CUT FROM THE FILM STRIP, THE RECEIVING MEANS BEING CONSTRUCTED TO STORE A PARTICULAR NUMBER OF CARDS IN STACKED RELATIONSHIP, MEANS OPERATIVELY COUPLED TO THE ADVANCING MEANS FOR OBTAINING AN INTERRUPTION IN THE ADVANCE OF THE FILM STRIP AFTER THE FILM STRIP HAS BEEN ADVANCED THROUGH EACH SUCCESSIVE INCREMENT, CUTTING MEANS OPERATIVELY COUPLED TO THE FILM STRIP AND RESPONSIVE TO EACH INTERRUPTION IN THE ADVANCE OF THE FILM AND DISPOSED IN CONTIGUOUS RELATIONSHIP TO THE RECEIVING MEANS FOR ENGAGING AND CUTTING THE FILM INTO FILM CARDS AND FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY INSERTING THE RESULTANT CARDS INTO THE RECEIVING MEANS DURING THE ENGAGEMENT OF THE FILM BY THE CUTTING MEANS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PERFORMING THE CUTTING OPERATION, AND MEANS OPERATIVELY COUPLED TO THE ADVANCING MEANS, THE CUTTING MEANS AND THE RECEIVING MEANS FOR DISABLING THE ADVANCING MEANS AND THE CUTTING MEANS UPON THE STORAGE OF THE PARTICULAR NUMBER OF CARDS IN THE RECEIVING MEANS.