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US 7,062,947 B2Granted
Cutting and folding machine
OwnerJames Douglas Farforinventor
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Abstract
A machine for cutting and edge folding foils includes a cutting/folding station. At the cutting/folding station is a folding form about which the foils may be folded. A feeder feeds a length of foil to the cutting and folding station. At the folding station a cutter adjacent to the folding form creates a cut edge in the foil. The path of the cutter is such as to fold the cut edge of the foil around the folding form.
Claims61
A machine for cutting arid edge folding foil, said machine comprising:
- means for feeding and holding a length of foil, the means for feeding and holding including means for infeeding the foil and means for outfeeding the foil;
- a cutting/folding station positioned between and spaced from the means for infeeding the foil and the means for outfeeding the foil, the cutting/folding station including means for cutting the foil and a forming edge about which to fold the foil;
- said means for cutting the foil being movable along a path spaced from the forming edge to pierce a side of the foil to create a cut edge at a location of the foil in which the other side of the foil is unsupported as the foil is held by the means for infeeding and the means for outfeeding and to fold the cut edge around the forming edge.
A method of producing hair colourists' foils, the method comprising:
- loading a roll of colourists' foil into a machine for cutting and edge folding foil;
- operating the machine to provide one or more discrete foil sheets, each with a folded edge, the machine being manually driven by a rotatable crank handle;
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- disposing the machine in proximity to the colourist to enable direct access to the foils from the machine.
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A machine for cutting and edge folding foil, said machine comprising:
- a pair of infeed rollers and a pair of outfeed rollers spaced from the pair of infeed rollers, between which a length of foil can be fed;
- a cutting/folding station positioned between and spaced from the pair of infeed rollers and the pair of outfeed rollers, the cutting/folding station including a cutter and a forming edge about which to fold the foil;
- said cutter being movable along a path spaced from the forming edge to pierce a side of the foil to create a cut edge at a location of the foil in which the other side of the foil is unsupported as the foil is held by the pair of infeed rollers and the pair of outfeed rollers and to fold the cut edge around the forming edge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.