Separating device for severing perforated tube sections

Separating device for separating perforated tube sections comprising:

• an advancing mechanism which advances the tube sections in a transport direction,
• a tearing mechanism arranged downstream of the advancing mechanism in the transport direction and which receives the tube sections from the advancing mechanism,
• mutually opposite rollers in each of the advancing mechanism and the tearing mechanism on opposite sides of the tube sections to be separated,
• continuous conveyor belts running over said mutually opposite rollers,
• swivel arms in which the mutually opposite rollers in the tearing mechanism are disposed, each of the swivel arms swiveling in the same direction about a swivel pin which is situated at one end thereof such that the swivel arms swivel open away from each other and close toward each other, the rollers of the tearing mechanism simultaneously contacting one of the tube sections for tearing off the one of the tube sections when the swivel arms close toward each other,
• a connecting rod coupled with one of said swivel arms arranged above a transport plane of the tube sections,
• a pressure rod coupled with another of said swivel arms arranged below the transport plane of the tube sections, and
• a lever and a cam plate which act upon the connecting rod and the pressure rod so that the swivel arms are swivelled toward one another and apart from one another around the swivel pins.