Patent ID: 6684749
Filing Date: 2004-02-03
Classification: B23D,B26D,Y10T

Abstract:
A device for cutting a weblike material lengthwise into a plurality of strips as required by successive jobs, said device comprising a plurality of lengthwise cutting tools, a transverse cutting tool and, downstream of said lengthwise cutting tools, at least two separate paths for the strips cut; and wherein the lengthwise cutting tools are controlled in a manner such as to generate a first series of lengthwise cutting lines in a first working job and a second series of lengthwise cutting lines in a second working job, a transition zone between the two working jobs being generated between said first and said second jobs, in which said transverse cutting tool generates a transverse cut; said device further comprising at least one auxiliary lengthwise cutting tool which, on the occasion of a job change, generates at least one auxiliary lengthwise cut in said transition zone, said auxiliary lengthwise cut prolonging at least one of the lengthwise cutting lines as far as the transverse cut.