Means for cutting a web to produce overlapped sheets

Claim 1

IN A PACKING MACHINE IN WHICH AN ARTICLE TO BE PACKED IS EMBRACED IN A U-SHAPED MANNER BY A WRAPPING HAVING A LONGER AND A SHORTER PORTION OF WRAPPING MATERIAL IN OVERLAPPING RELATIONSHIP AND IN WHICH THE TWO WRAPPING MATERIAL PORTIONS ARE CUT FROM A SINGLE WEB OF SAID MATERIAL, THE COMBINATION OF A ROTATABLE CUTTER, A COUNTER ROLLER POSITIONED FOR COOPERATING WITH SAID CUTTER, A FIRST CUTTER BLADE AND A SECOND CUTTER BLADE ON SAID CUTTER FOR CUTTING BY PRESSURE AGAINST SAID COUNTER ROLLER, MEANS FOR FEEDING A WEB OF SAID WRAPPING MATERIAL BETWEEN SAID CUTTER AND SAID COUNTER ROLLER PRIOR TO A CUT EFFECTED BY SAID FIRST CUTTER BLADE, MEANS FOR ACCELERATING THE FEET OF SAID WRAPPING MATERIAL BETWEEN SAID CUTTER AND SAID COUNTER ROLLER SUBSEQUENT TO THE CUT EFFECTED BY SAID FIRST CUTTER BLADE AND PRIOR TO A CUT EFFECTED BY SAID SECOND CUTTER BLADE SO AS TO BRING A SECOND CUT PORTION INTO OVERLAP WITH A FIRST CUT PORTION, A FIRST AND SECOND SUCTION BELT ARRANGED ALONG THE PATH OF MOVEMENT OF THE WRAPPING MATERIAL AND AFTER THE CUTTER WHEN VIEWED IN THE DIRECTION OF FEED OF SAID WRAPPING MATERIAL, FOR TAKING OVER THE FURTHER TRANSPORT OF SAID LONGER WRAPPING MATERIAL PORTION SUBSEQUENT TO CUTTING BY SAID FIRST CUTTER BLADE, AND A THIRD SUCTION BELT OPPOSITE SAID FIRST SUCTION BELT FOR TRANSPORTING THE END OF SAID SHORTER WRAPPING MATERIAL PORTION INTO OVERLAP WITH SAID LONGER WRAPPING MATERIAL PORTION.