Patent ID: 8607607

Claim:
A rotary compaction press having a wire feed system, the rotary compaction press comprising: a wire exit aperture; a cutting disc adjacent said wire exit aperture, said cutting disc having a plurality of annularly arranged wire cutting surfaces and having a plurality of wire notches, said cutting surfaces and said wire notches in fixed positional relation to one another and configured in joint rotatable relationship about a common axis; wherein said cutting disc is rotatable, thereby causing said wire cutting surfaces to sequentially pass over said wire exit aperture; a rotatable die table having a plurality of dies below said cutting disc, wherein one of said plurality of dies is selectively coaxially aligned with one of said notches of said cutting disc; a wire pellet placement location wherein one of said notches of said cutting disc and one of said dies of said die table are selectively correspondingly coaxially aligned with one another.