Rolling, cutting, and notching machine

Claim 1

A MACHINE TO INITIATE AND PROGRESSIVELY DEVELOP ONE OR MORE DESIRED CONTOURS EXTENING LONGITUDINALLY OF FLAT, ELONGATED STOCK MATERIAL, FOLLOWING A PATH OF TRAVEL THROUGH SAID MACHINE, AND TO SEVER SAID STOCK INTO DESIRED LEGTHS AND STRIKE NOTCHES IN ONE OR MORE OF SAID CONTOURS IN THE COURSE OF SAID DEVELOPMENT, SAID MACHINE INCLUDING, (A) A PLRUALITY OF PAIR OF ROLLERS, SAID STOCK PASSING BETWEEN THE ROLLERS OF EACH PAIR, EACH SAID PAIR OF ROLLERS BEING CONTOURED TO APPLY SUCH CONTOUR TO SAID STOCK, SAID PAIRS BEING DISPOSED TO SEQUENTIALLY RECEIVE AND PASS THE STOCK TO PROGRESSIVELY DEVELOP SAID DESIRED CONTOURS, (B) A STATIONARY DIE BED DISPOSED ALONG SAID PATH OF TRAVEL IN A POSITION CORRESPONDING TO A PREDETERMINED STAGE OF CONTOUR DEVELOPMENT, (C) A MOVABLE DIE BED, SIMILARLY DISPOSED AND ACTUABLE TO MOVE TO AND FROM THE STATIONARY BED. (D) A FIRST DIE HOLDER MOUNTED UPON SAID STATIONARY BED, (E) A SECOND DIE HOLDER CARRIED BY THE MOVABLE BED, (F) AN ACTING DIE CARRIED BY THE SECOND DIE HOLDER, (G) A PASSIVE DIE MOUNTED ON THE FIRST DIE HOLDER, (H) MEANS TO ACTUATE THE MOVABLE DIE BED TO AND FROM THE STATIONARY DIE BED TO CAUSE SAID DIES TO COACT TO SEVER AND NOTCH THE STOCK AT SAID PREDETERMINED STAGE, (I) A FIRST SLIDEWAY FORMED ON THE STATIONARY DIE BED, AND SAID FIRST DIE HOLDER (D) BEING MOUNTED ON SAID FIRST SLIDEWAY FOR RECIPROCABLE SLIDING TRAVEL THEREON, (J) A SECOND SLIDEWAY FORMED ON THE MOVABLE DIE BED, AND SAID SECOND DIE HOLDER (E) BEING CARRIED ON SAID SECOND SLIDEWAY, FOR RECIPROCABLE SLIDING TRAVEL THEREON, (K) MEANS INTERCONNECTING SAID DIE HOLDERS TO AFFORD SIMULTANEOUS SLIDING TRAVEL THEREOF ON SAID SLIDEWAYS, (L) DRIVE MEANS TO ADVANCE DIE HOLDERS IN SAID RECIPROCABLE SLIDING TRAVEL AT THE SPEED OF AND IN THE DIRECTION OF STOCK TRAVEL CONCURRENTLY WITH ACTUATION OF SAID MEANS (H) TO ACTUATE SAID MOVABLE BED, AND (M) DRIVE MEANS TO RETRACT SAID DIE HOLDERS IN SAID RECIPROCABLE TRAVEL, WHEREBY SAID STOCK MAY BE SEVERED AND NOTCHED AT A SUITABLE STAGE OF CONTOUR DEVELOPMENT TO AFFORD MINIMUM DISTORTION OF STOCK MATERIAL.