Device for cutting moving ingots, tube skelps and rolled stock

Apparatus for serving continuously moving members such as ingots, tube skelps, rolled stock and the like, comprising in combination:

• displaceable power chamber means including a power chamber, rod means in said power chamber for movement upon the generation of a power pulse in said power chamber,
• said rod means including a first cutter for movement therewith for engaging the member to be cut in a direction substantially transverse to the direction of movement of the moving member;
• anvil means in opposed relation to said power chamber means and including a second cutter in substantially aligned, cooperating relation to said first cutter for engaging the moving member from a direction opposite the first cutter;
• means operatively connecting said anvil means to said power chamber means for movement therewith in a direction opposite that of the rod means whereby the cutters move towards each other in a severing stroke in response to a power pulse in said power chamber causing said rod means movement;
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• means operatively connected to said cutters for separating said cutters substantially after a cutting stroke has been effected, said last mentioned means comprises a frame surrounding said cutters, said cutters including means permitting movement thereof relative to said rod means and anvil means for movement of the cutters in the same direction the member being cut is being moved, said frame including camming means for engaging and orienting said cutters into an operative position and orienting said cutters into an operative position whereby impacted cutters in the member being cut are dislodged by engagement of the frame with the means permitting the relative movement of the cutters with respect to the rod and anvil means, said means permitting relative movement of the cutters including a pair of carriage members, one carriage member being attached to the rod means and the other carriage member being attached to the anvil means, each cutter being mounted on a respective carriage member, the carriage members being mounted in slots in the rod means and anvil means for movement in the direction in which the member is being moved.