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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 29, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Joaquim Brugue, Sant Cugat del Valles, ES;
Richard Meyer, Alfred, ME (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B26D / ; B26D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
83485 ; 83105 ; 83501 ; 83614 ; 30265 ; 30287 ; 30292 ; 30294 ;
Abstract
A cutting apparatus in a strong plastic housing having two rotatable slitter blades. The cutting apparatus is mounted on a guide rail for movement by hand across a tightly held sheet of media such as paper, vellum or film. The slitter blades are mounted back-to-back at an angle, and the shafts to which the blades are mounted are positioned in the housing so that their longitudinal axes are not parallel to each other. This offset minimizes the region of contact between the two blades.