Method for transverse cutting

Abstract

A method and apparatus for the transverse cutting of elongated material such as superposed web plies (for example, a convolutely wound log) wherein the material is uniformly advanced along an axial path and a cutting disc blade is moved through an orbit in planetary fashion which intersects the path and is skewed relative thereto while the disc blade is rotating in planes perpendicular to the path.

I claim: 
     
       1. A method of cutting logs of convolutely wound web material .Iadd.such as toilet paper and toweling, .Iaddend.comprising: uniformly advancing a log along a path into a cutting station having an arm above said path,   rotating said arm about an axis skewed with respect to said path, said arm having a disc blade .Iadd.support .Iaddend.mounted thereon .Iadd.and rotatably carrying a disc blade .Iaddend.with the blade axis spaced from the arm axis to cause said blade to intersect said path and cut a log .Iadd.adjacent the bottom of the blade orbit, .Iaddend.maintaining said blade axis at an angle skewed relative to said arm axis to position said disc blade continually perpendicular to said path whereby said disc blade makes a square cut through a log, .[.and.]. .Iadd.said support carrying sharpening stones, .Iaddend.   continuously planetarily rotating said disc blade .Iadd.support .Iaddend.about the blade axis from said arm axis .Iadd.to maintain said sharpening stones above the axis of said disc blade and in a fixed relation to said blade axis whereby said stones are adapted to sharpen said blade at any point during the orbit thereof, and   continuously rotating said disc blade about said blade axis independently of said arm. .Iaddend.   
     
     
       2. The method of claim 1 in which a pair of logs are advanced in side-by-side relation in said path whereby said cutting is performed while said blade axis moves through an angle of about 90°. 
     
     
       3. The method of claim 1 in which said .[.arm is equipped with cylindrical stones for sharpening said disc blade, rotating.]. said stones .Iadd.are .Iaddend.continuously .Iadd.rotated .Iaddend.and selectively .[.moving said stones.]. .Iadd.moved .Iaddend.into sharpening engagement with said disc blade when the same is out of cutting engagement with said log. 
     
     
       4. The method of claim 1 in which said arm is mounted for vertical movement in said station, and moving the axis of said arm vertically toward said path to compensate for wear on said disc blade. 
     
     
       5. A method of cutting logs of convolutely wound web material, comprising: uniformly advancing a log along a path into a cutting station having an arm above said path,   rotating said arm about an axis skewed with respect to said path, said arm having a disc blade mounted thereon with the blade axis spaced from the arm axis to cause said blade to intersect said path and cut a log,   maintaining said blade axis at an angle skewed relative to said arm axis to position said disc blade continually perpendicular to said path whereby said disc blade makes a square cut through a log,   continuously rotating said disc blade about the blade axis from said arm axis, said arm being equipped with cylindrical stones for sharpening said disc blade, and rotating said stones continuously and selectively moving said stones into sharpening engagement with said disc blade when the same is out of cutting engagement with said log.