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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 1988
Filed:
Apr. 15, 1987
Armin Zoebeli, Steffisburg, CH;
Meyer + Burger AG, Steffisburg, CH;
Abstract
A slicing machine in which a workpiece rod is disposed without cutting base on a table of the machine and it may be brought by means of a feeding slide step by step into a working position in the range of action of an inner cutting-off wheel. For removing the severed slices of arbitrary thickness, a vacuum chuck with a crown of suction nozzles is connected through a ball joint capable to be locked with a support and a horizontal slide. By shifting the horizontal slide and when the ball joint is loosened, the vacuum chuck may be put against the rod with a definite force and oriented, and then the ball joint is locked so that the vacuum chuck is rigidly maintained in the oriented position. The pressure force of the vacuum chuck may be recleared and the vacuum chuck with its support may be clamped with the vacuum chuck in the released position. This permits a clear, proper slicing of the rod without danger of breaks at the time when the separation takes place.