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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 1978
Filed:
Apr. 06, 1977
Terrence P Morris, Bedford Heights, OH (US);
Guild International, Inc., , OH (US);
Abstract
A crop shearing and joining method and apparatus includes a manually operable crop shearing assembly for producing clean linear edges at the ends of respective strips, sheets or the like, and a joining assembly for welding or otherwise securing the ends of two different strips or sheets together. Also, a strip aligning and clamping assembly comprising two independently operable clamping devices utilizes one of the clamping devices to provide an alignment stop for aligning the end of one strip relative to the welding torch or the like in the joining assembly and then uses that aligned strip end to facilitate alignment of the strip end to be joined therewith. Moreover, the clamping devices provide substantially full backing support of the aligned strip ends during the joining operation.