Patent ID: 8695205

Claim:
An apparatus for forming cutting blades and affixing the cutting blades onto substrates, comprising: a feeder for feeding cutting blade material from a supply of cutting blade stock; a cutting station for receiving the cutting blade material from the feeder and severing the cutting blade material from the supply to form a cutting blade blank; a bending station for receiving the cutting blade blank and bending the cutting blade blank to form a cutting blade having a web with a plurality of teeth projecting from the web, and a leg extending transverse the web; a substrate feeder having an input bin for receiving a stack of substrates onto which the cutting blade is to be attached, wherein the substrate feeder is operable to serially feed substrates from the input bin; an affixing station for receiving the cutting blade from the bending station and one of the substrates from the substrate feeder, wherein the one substrate has a first edge having a thickness and the cutting blade mates with the one substrate so that the web of the cutting blade overlies the thickness of the first edge, wherein the affixing station is operable to substantially permanently affix the cutting blade to the one substrate.