Patent ID: 8096158

Claim:
An apparatus for cropping the ends of or for separating test pieces from rolled strip wound into bundles, the appartus comprising: shears, a first and a second bottom roller having respective axes arranged in parallel and forming an essentially horizontal plane, for the reception of a bundle of rolled strip having a horizontally oriented bundle axis, the spacing of the axes of the bottom rollers being smaller than the smallest bundle diameter, a pressure roller which is adjustable in position, the second bottom roller is adjustable in position for lifting off from a surface area of the bundle, the first bottom roller and the pressure roller being configured to support the bundle , so that a first arc segment between lines of contact of the first bottom roller and of the pressure roller on the bundle surface area is greater than a second arc segment between lines of contact of the two bottom rollers, and at least the first bottom roller or the pressure roller having a rotary drive.