Cutting system

A cloth cutting apparatus, in combination, comprising:

• a stationary lower blade supported upon a base platform and having a first horizontal cutting edge,
• an upper blade associated with said lower blade having a free end and a connected end and having a second cutting edge disposed at an angle relative to said lower blade,
• drive means including pivot means mounted upon said base platform, said drive means being for mounting said connected end of said upper blade and being vertically movable on and rotationally movable about said pivot means,
• said upper blade being vertically movable between upper and lower positions and simultaneously tangentially rotatable about said pivot means between first and second rotational positions respectively,
• wherein in said upper and first rotational positions, said first and second cutting edges are in cutting contact at a point at said connected end and said second cutting edge is spaced above and disposed past a vertical plane extending from said first cutting edge at said free end, and
• means for moving said drive means along with said upper blade between said upper and lower positions, and
• means for pressuring said free end portion of said upper blade against the tangential rotation of said upper blade during movement of said upper blade between said upper and first positions and said lower and second positions,
• whereby the second cutting edge is pressured against the first cutting edge at the cutting point during the descent of the second cutting edge from the upper to lower position.