Mac Engineering and Equipment Company, Inc.

James M Tole

Ned L Stauffer

Disclosed herein is apparatus for cutting a strip of battery plate material into a plurality of battery plates, which strip of battery plate material includes a series of longitudinally evenly spaced apertures, and which apparatus comprises a plurality of support rollers rotatably mounted on a frame, an endless belt trained around the support rollers on an endless path, which belt includes an inner surface and an outer surface having thereon a plurality of longitudinally evenly spaced lugs adapted, when the strip is overlayed on the belt, to engage the strip apertures for advancing the strip in common with advancement of the belt, sprocket teeth on at least one of the support rollers and a plurality of apertures on the endless belt engaged by the sprocket teeth for advancing the belt along the endless path, a cutter roller mounted on the frame for rotation and for translation toward and away from the belt, which cutter roller has, on the periphery thereof, cutting knives for severing the strip into plates in response to passage of the strip between the cutter roller and the belt and in response to rotation of the cutter roller, a drive for rotating the cutter roller such that the rate of peripheral travel of the cutting knives is substantially equal to the rate of advancement of the belt, and a pneumatic cylinder yieldably urging the cutter roller toward the belt.

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Watervliet, MI, United States of America

James M Tole