Patent ID: 9016176
Filing Date: 2015-04-28
Classification: B26D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A web-member cutting apparatus for cutting a web member at intervals in a transport direction, the web member having a plurality of fibers including tows along the transport direction and being continuous in the transport direction, the web-member cutting apparatus comprising: an intermittent transport mechanism for intermittently transporting the web member in the transport direction; a disc-like rotatable blade member positioned for cutting the web member by moving along an intersecting direction while rotating about a rotation shaft during a suspension period of transport of the web member without the rotatable blade member engaging an opposing member, a downstream pressing member that regulates movement of the web member by pressing the web member against the intermittent transport mechanism at a position downstream from a target cut position in the transport direction throughout a period during which the rotatable blade member is cutting the web member.