Cutting apparatus for cutting an image from a receiving sheet
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsCarl W. Roy, Paul E. Tschiderer
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a cutting apparatus which includes a cutter. A pair of sensors is used to detect a lead edge of an image located on a receiver sheet. In response to the sensors the cutter and the lead edge of the image are aligned. The receiving sheet is transported in a direction essentially perpendicular to the cutter. The cutter cuts the receiving sheet adjacent and parallel to the lead and trail edges of the image. A cut lead edge of the receiving sheet is edge registered. A third sensor detects edges of the image perpendicular to the cut lead edge of the image. A second cutter, responsive to the third sensor, cuts the receiving sheet adjacent edges of the image perpendicular to the cut lead edge of the image.
Claims4
Cutting apparatus capable of cutting a rectangular image, skewed relative to a receiver sheet on which the image is located, from the receiver sheet such that edges of the image are essentially parallel with respective edges of the receiver sheet, comprising:
- a first cutter;
- a sensor device for detecting an edge of an image located on a receiving sheet;
- means, responsive to said sensor device, for aligning said first cutter and said edge of said image such that said first cutter can cut said receiver sheet essentially parallel to said edge of said image;
- means for edge registering an edge of the receiving sheet cut by said first cutter;
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- a second cutter positioned to cut said receiving sheet perpendicular with said edge cut by said first cutter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.