Patent ID: 6311601
Filing Date: 2001-11-06
Classification: B26D,B26F,B31B,Y10T

Abstract:
Die for working sheet material by cutting said sheet material along a cutting line and scoring said sheet material along a scoring line offset from the cutting line comprising a pair of opposed, coacting die plates, one of said die plates having a knife edge, formed integrally with said die plate and extending along said cutting line, the other die plate having a raised cutting land extending longitudinally along said cutting line and transversely across said cuttting line, said knife edge and said cutting land being directly opposed one another and cooperating to cut said sheet material along said cutting line, said other die plate further including first and second scoring lands displaced from said cutting land, each of said first and second scoring lands extending longitudinally and being displaced transversely from another to form a channel therebetween defining said scoring line, and a third scoring land on said one die plate extending along said scoring line and between said first and second scoring lands to engage said sheet material and force the sheet material into said channel to thereby effect scoring along said scoring line, each of said die plates having a bed, said lands and said knife edge extending directly from a corresponding one of said beds.