Arrangement for cutting guided cylindrical sleeves

A machine for automatically cutting and dividing cylindrical sleeves, comprising in combination,

• a spindle operatively mounted in said machine;
• a knife support beam having a plurality of rotary knives transversely movably mounted in said machine relative to said spindle;
• a transport arrangement operatively mounted in said machine and adapted to transport uncut sleeve onto said spindle so that they may be cut and divided by said rotary knives and then transporting the cut sleeves from said spindle, said transport arrangement including a pair of oppositely movable end pressure members adapted to grip said cut and uncut sleeves therebetween;
• a carrier sled transversely movably mounted in said machine relative to the axis of said spindle and having a pair of adjustable parallel sleeve receiving troughs adapted to be reciprocably moved between precisely defined relative positions with respect to the carrier and the rotary knife supporting beam for delivering uncut sleeves to said transport arrangement and receiving cut sleeves therefrom.