Patent ID: 8528455

Claim:
A device for clamping a blade of shears for transverse cutting strip and having a blade drum defining an elongate recess for receiving the blade, the clamping device comprising a clamping bar for clamping the blade in the elongate recess; a compression spring for biasing the clamping bar into a clamping position thereof; and means for displacing the clamping bar in a release position thereof, the displacing means including an elongate housing located in the blade drum and defining first and second chambers separated by a housing section extending transverse to a longitudinal extent of the housing, a first piston displaceable in the first chamber and having a piston rod connected, at an end thereof remote from the piston, with the clamping bar, the compression spring being located in the first chamber and engaging, at a spring end remote from the clamping bar, the first piston, and a second piston displaceable in the second chamber and having a rod section extendable through a bore formed in the transverse housing section and engageable with the first piston for applying pressure thereto upon application of pressure to the second piston, wherein space in front of the first piston and space in front of the second piston communicate with atmosphere, and space behind the first piston and in space behind the second piston communicate with a fluid source; and wherein a first connection-bore connects the space in the front of the first piston with the space in the front of the second piston, and a second connection bores connects the space behind the second piston with the space behind the first piston, wherein the first and second connection bores are formed in the rod section of the second piston.