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US 2023/0278117 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for insulation handling and cutting
AssigneeMestek Machinery, Inc.
InventorsTimothy A. Coon, Stanton Sweet
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Abstract
Disclosed is a cutting apparatus and method of cutting an insulative material. Said insulative material may be either flexible or rigid in nature. The insulative material is cut via a passive cutting wheel driven across a platen and engaged to a stationary drive belt about the passive cutting wheel axis. Engagement of the stationary drive belt with the passive cutting wheel axis results in a turning of the passive cutting wheel.
Claims22
A cutting apparatus, comprising:
- a passive cutting wheel configured to turn about an axis when transported across a platen.
A cutting apparatus, comprising:
- a platen defining a surface for supporting a workpiece to be cut;
- a toothed drive belt mounted in operative association with said platen;
- a passive cutting wheel having an axis about which said passive cutting wheel rotates when said axis is itself rotated;
- said axis including contoured features that interact with said toothed drive belt;
- a selectively driven wheel carriage affixed to said axis, said wheel carriage ensuring that said contoured features of said axis are held in a touching relationship with said toothed drive belt;
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- wherein driven motion of said wheel carriage causes said contoured features of said axis to interact with said toothed drive belt such that said driven movement of said wheel carriage causes rotation of said passive cutting wheel as said wheel carriage is driven along said toothed drive belt.
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