Patent ID: 7926396

Claim:
A trimming apparatus for a sheet material article comprising: a front trimming station; a side trimming station located downstream of the front trimming station; and a transfer apparatus for conveying the sheet material from the front trimming station to the side trimming station, the transfer apparatus comprising: a transfer element configured to grip the sheet material article and move the sheet material article in a transfer direction onto a moving side table of the sheet material article trimmer, the moving side table carrying the sheet material article as the sheet material article is gripped by the transfer element; and a driver configured to move the transfer element at a same speed as the moving side table during a first time period, the speed of the side table and the transfer element varying during the first time period, when the sheet material article is gripped by the transfer element and the side table is moving in the transfer direction; wherein the transfer element includes an upper belt and a lower belt.