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US 11,752,652 B2Granted
Cutting apparatus, apparatus for manufacturing sheet material, and apparatus for manufacturing gypsum building material
AssigneeYoshino Gypsum Co., Ltd.
InventorsKatsumi Niimi, Masaaki Takahashi, Tsuyoshi Yoshida, Masaki Ushizawa
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Abstract
A cutting apparatus is provided. The cutting apparatus includes a cutter disposed in a conveying path for conveying a plate-shaped object and configured to cut the object, a downstream conveyor disposed downstream of the cutter in the conveying path and configured to convey the object, and a foreign-matter adhesion preventer disposed between the cutter and the downstream conveyor and configured to prevent foreign matter scattered by the cutter from adhering to the downstream conveyor.
Claims10
A cutting apparatus, comprising:
- a rotary cutter disposed in a conveying path for conveying a plate-shaped object and configured to cut the object;
- a downstream conveyor disposed downstream of the rotary cutter in the conveying path and configured to convey the object, the downstream conveyor including at least one roller-conveyor roller disposed between the rotary cutter and other roller-conveyor rollers disposed downstream of the one roller-conveyor roller, wherein said at least one roller-conveyor roller and the other roller-conveyor rollers are all disposed on a lower side of the downstream conveyor;
- at least one foreign-matter adhesion preventer disposed between the rotary cutter and the downstream conveyor and configured to prevent foreign matter scattered by the rotary cutter from adhering to the downstream conveyor;
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- a conveyor-roller contrarotation controller configured to control the one roller-conveyor roller of the downstream conveyor to rotate in a direction that is opposite to a direction of rotation of the other roller-conveyor rollers that defines a conveying direction in which the object is conveyed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.