STEEL RULE CUTTING DIE AND EJECTION STRIP

摘要

A multi-cavity steel rule cutting die has adjacent cavities that are tightly nested together. A baseboard is produced with a first series of slots adapted to receive a first cutting element, and a second series of slots adapted to receive a second cutting element. The slots in each series are separated by bridges which are longer than the slots. When viewed along a line between two adjacent cavities, a slot of the first series is located between and spaced from two adjacent slots of the second series while the bridges associated with adjacent cavities overlap each other in a region of the baseboard. A scrap material ejector comprising one or more bendable portions is described and may be used to eject scrap material from an area between two adjacent die cavities.