Disclosed is a shaping cutter including upper and lower blades (4) and (3) fastened at one end so as to open in the shape of the letter X and cut when they close. The upper blade has an operating lever (6) extending from the end at which the upper and lower blades are fastened. An endless linear conveyor (2) has the lower blades fixed thereon, and a guide rod (7) extends parallel to the conveyor. When the conveyor moves, the operating levers of the upper blades slide along the guide rod to cause...

A method of shaping a nose portion 5 of an electrode 4 in an EDM apparatus comprises, providing a grinding element 9 having a peripheral groove 10 and means for effecting relative movement between the electrode 4 and the grinding element 9, and feeding the electrode 4 into the groove 10 tangentially or normally thereto so that the nose portion 5 contacts and is ground by one of the two opposed side faces of the groove 10 to impart a complementary profile to a first side face 20 of the nose porti...

A shaping algorithm for use in a queuing system in which there is no background process for detecting clock wrap around. The algorithm applies to Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) applications and to the different categories of service connections specified by the ATM Forum. The algorithm is implemented by a time slotted calendar system to shape cell streams into conformance with network traffic descriptors. The calendar register is constrained to positive values to ensure valid results from the ...

A method of forming unit portions of foodstuffs such as reformed shrimp in which the food material is extruded through a nozzle which is of distorted or helical form while in a frozen state and is then subdivided and set in its distorted or helical form.

A die for use in a punch-press operation has a constant shear angle throughout the entire cutting edge and the surface profile of the die is convex to draw the workpiece away from the cutting edge of the die as the workpiece is being punched out.

Methods and apparatus implementing a technique for forming a trap polygon which does not interfere with the print quality of other trap polygons or objects. Edges in close proximity to a color transition edge ("CTE") are checked for potential interference. A trap polygon is formed for the CTE that avoids any interfering edges or trap polygons for those edges. The technique can be applied to form a trap polygon for each edge in a page to be printed. In general, in one aspect, forming a trap polyg...

The invention relates to a shaping insert (1) for garments for supporting a woman's bust. The aim of the invention is to provide as much bend resistance as possible in the plane stressed by the insert and as much flexibility as possible in relation to bending stresses perpendicular thereto. At the same time, the insert should be as economical as possible to produce. To this end, the insert is configured with at least two insert elements (2, 3) which are arranged essentially one behind the other ...

A body, e.g. a die or tool for use in electrical machining, is shaped by milling and/or electrical methods using a tool head oriented at a perpendicular to the contour to be shaped by reason of input signals to the several servomotors or controls of the tool head and/or sensor head. The latter is displaceable with at least three degrees of freedom, preferably including angular displacement in two mutually perpendicular planes, while the workpiece and tool may be positioned mutually with at least...

A method of shaping a body, suitable for use in the building or furnishing industry, including: engaging a surface region of the body with a tool having a predetermined profile; effecting relative movement between the body and the tool in a direction generally parallel with a surface of said region, the body being formed of a material which is sufficiently friable as it is engaged by the tool during the relative movement to be removed but sufficiently rigid for adjacent material to remain attach...

A shaping machine has at least one rotatably driven spindle having a conical receiving opening. A tool is provided. A conical member is mounted in the receiving opening, wherein the tool is secured by the conical member to the spindle. A clamping device clamps the conical member in the receiving opening, wherein the tool is supported on an end face of the spindle.