Patent ID: 8539869
Filing Date: 2013-09-24
Classification: B26D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A guillotine cutter for selectively cutting a media passing therethrough, the guillotine cutter comprising: a frame enclosure having a media path extending from an entrance passage to an exit chute; a fixed blade attached to the frame enclosure; a guillotine blade movable within the frame enclosure between a first position defining a first angle with the media path and a second position defining a second angle with the media path that is angularly offset from the first position in which the guillotine blade has slid past the fixed blade to cut the passing therebetween and in which a cutting edge of the guillotine blade pivots towards the exit chute to push the media through the exit chute; and an actuator mechanism linked to the guillotine blade that actuates the guillotine blade between the first position and the second position, the actuator mechanism including a crank assembly including a pair of joined rotatable discs linked to the guillotine blade by a pair of links that link the pair of rotatable discs to the guillotine blade, each of the pair of links connected to one the pair of rotatable discs at a location not along an axis of rotation of the pair of rotatable discs; wherein the crank assembly is enclosed by the frame enclosure and the frame enclosure has a plurality of integrated bearing surfaces formed thereon including a first set of integrated bearing surfaces formed on lateral walls of the frame enclosure that maintain a connection of each of the pair of links to one of the pair of rotatable discs.