Cloth cutting apparatus for cloth rewinding machine

Claim 1

CLOTH CUTTING APPARATUS ADAPTED FOR USE ON A CLOTH REWINDING MACHINE, SAID MACHINE HAVING A FRAME, MEANS FOR SUPPORTING A BULK ROLL OF CLOTH, AND MEANS FOR WINDING CLOTH FROM THE ROLL INTO A BOLT; SAID CUTTER APPARATUS COMPRISING A TRACK ADAPTED TO BE SECURED TO SAID REWINDING MACHINE EXTENDING GENERALLY PARALLEL TO THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID BOLT AND BEING POSITIONED SO THAT THE CLOTH PASSES BY THE TRACK PRIOR TO BEING WOUND UP IN SAID BOLT, SAID TRACK COMPRISING A LENGTH OF TUBING HAVING A SLOT EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY THEREOF WITH SAID SLOT FACING SAID CLOTH, A CARRIAGE HAVING ROLLER MEANS ADAPTED TO BE RECEIVED IN THE TUBE SO AS TO MOUNT THE CARRIAGE FOR MOVEMENT ALONG THE TRACK, A ROTARY CUTTING BLADE, DRIVE MEANS FOR DRIVING THE CUTTER BLADE, SAID CARRIAGE BEING MOVABLE ALONG THE TRACK WITH SAID CUTTER BLADE DRIVEN BY SAID CUTTER DRIVE MEANS TO CUT THE CLOTH, SAID CARRIAGE COMPRISING A BODY PORTION ADAPTED TO BE DISPOSED WITHIN SAID TUBE AND A BRACKET PORTION EXTENDING OUTWARDLY OF THT TUBE THROUGH SAID SLOT FOR SUPPORTING SAID CUTTER BLADE AND SAID CUTTER DRIVE MEANS, AND A PLURALITY OF ROLLERS JOURNALLED ON SAID BODY PORTION OF SAID CARRIAGE FOR ROLLING ON THE INSIDE SURFACE OF SAID TUBE AS SAID CARRIAGE IS MOVED ALONG THE TUBE, SAID PLURALITY OF ROLLERS INCLUDING A FIRST ROLLER IN ROLLING CONTACT WITH THE INNER SURFACE OF THE TUBE ON ONE SIDE THEREOF, A SECOND ROLLER IN ROLLING CONTACT WITH THE INNER SURFACE OF THE TUBE ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE THEREOF FROM SAID ONE SIDE, AND A THIRD ROLLER IN ROLLING CONTACT WITH THE INSIDE SURFACE OF THE TUBE ON SAID ONE SIDE, WHEREBY WITH SAID FIRST AND THIRD ROLLERS AND SAID SECOND ROLLER IN ROLLING CONTACT WITH GENERALLY OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE TUBE, SAID CARRIAGE IS EFFECTIVELY PREVENTED FROM ROCKING SIDE-TO-SIDE RELATIVE TO THE TUBE AS THE CARRIAGE IS MOVED LONGITUDINALLY ALONG THE TRACK.