摘要 |
A cutting and feeding device for severing very small segments of predetermined length from a strip of feed material with a minimum of burring and feeding the small segments to a subsequent processing operation in a desired orientation. A reciprocating knife edge cooperates with a fixed knife edge to cut the small pieces from a strip fed into the cutter, and to advance the small pieces into a curved guide which guides the pieces through 90 DEG . A reciprocating finger, synchronized with the cutters, pushes the pieces around the curved guide for delivery to the next operation. The device is particularly suitable for cutting precious metal electrical contacts for subsequent welding to a conductor strip.
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