Material cutter with a selectable cutting profile
AssigneePanduit Corp.
InventorsMichael Adams, Marc Obenshain
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Abstract
A material cutter for producing a selected cutting profile. The material cutter includes a cutter frame and a cutter button. The cutter frame has a stationary blade. The cutter button, which is slidably mounted in the cutter frame, has a moving blade with a cutting edge. The cutter button preferably includes a profile selector, so that when a driving force is applied to the cutter button, the moving blade slides past the stationary blade to the extent allowed by the profile selector. The profile selector may be a knob and the cutting profile may be set manually or automatically. It is preferred that at least one of the selectable cutting profiles is a partial cut.
Claims19
A material cutter for producing a selected cutting profile, comprising:
- a cutter frame having a stationary blade;
- and
- a cutter button having a profile selector and carrying a moving blade having a cutting edge, the cutter button being slidably disposed within the cutter frame, such that, when a driving force is applied to the cutter button, the moving blade of the cutter button slides past the stationary blade of the cutter frame to the extent allowed by the profile selector.
A material cutter for producing a selected cutting profile, comprising:
- a cutter frame having a stationary blade;
- a cutter button carrying a moving blade having a cutting edge, the cutter button being slidably disposed within the cutter frame, such that, when a driving force is applied to the cutter button, the moving blade of the cutter button slides past the stationary blade of the cutter frame;
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- a means for selecting a cutting profile, wherein the selecting means determines the extent to which the moving blade of the cutter button slides past the stationary blade of the cutter frame.
A method for printing a series of labels from a continuous label material, comprising the steps of:
- setting a label parameter;
- printing a series of labels using the parameter;
- and
- between each label in the series of labels, applying a selected cutting profile to the continuous label material, wherein said selected cutting profile is selected from a group including at least one partial cut cutting profile.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.