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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2000
Blane G. Boynton, Vancouver, WA (US);
Richard M. Holbert, Washougal, WA (US);
Robert F. Shinn, Camas, WA (US);
William R. Miller, Portland, OR (US);
Tidland Corporation, Camas, WA (US);
Abstract
A vertically adjustable web slitter is adapted to be supported by a track of a web-slitting machine, and comprising an input port adapted to receive pressurized fluid. Also, a control assembly is adapted to controllably transmit the pressurized fluid into any one of a set of first fluid passageways. A cylinder is adapted to receive the pressurized fluid from one of the first fluid passageways. A piston, having a first end and a second end, is set into the cylinder and is adapted to be driven within the cylinder by the pressurized fluid. Further, a set of actuators that are adapted to be driven by pressurized fluid are separated by the piston and cylinder from the set of first passageways. Finally, the piston defines at least one second fluid passageway extending from the first end to the second end. A first flexible hose connects each second fluid passageway to a first fluid passageway and a second flexible hose operatively connects each second fluid passageway to one of the actuators.