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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 09, 1999
The Japan Steel Works, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A strand cutting apparatus includes a fixed blade having a blade edge extending perpendicularly with respect to the traveling direction of a strand, a rotation blade which is fixed to the tip portion of a rotation shaft disposed in parallel to the traveling direction of the strand and has a plurality of plate-shaped blades disposed radially at a front surface opposing to the fixed blade, and a cover for receiving pellets thus cut and exhausting the pellets out of the apparatus. The cover is formed by a lower casing of almost funnel-shape and an upper casing of a semi-cylindrical shape covering the opened portion of the lower casing. The center of the upper casing is made eccentric toward the fixed blade side with respect to the rotation axis of the rotation blade so that the distance between the inner peripheral surface of the upper casing and a phantom outer peripheral circle of the rotation blade increases gradually toward the rotation direction of the rotation blade and becomes maximum at the side of the fixed blade.