William Kirk Houser

53278062, Jul 12, 1994

Apr 19, 1993

8/049611

William K. Houser - Greeneville TN

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

B26D 108

83636

For shear-cutting a stack of thin strips of amorphous steel along a cutting plane that extends transversely of the stack, an apparatus that comprises two blades that are positioned at the start of a cutting operation on opposite sides of the stack is utilized. Each of the blades has a first surface for engaging one side of the stack and a second surface extending transversely of the first surface and generally parallel to said cutting plane and intersecting the first surface at a corner. The first surface of each blade is disposed at a predetermined rake angle with respect to a reference plane extending through a point on the corner of the blade and normal to said cutting plane. The apparatus is further characterized by the following features that cooperate to impart to the blades an exceptionally high resistance to wear: (i) the sum of the rake angles is of a negative value and between 5 and 35 degrees, and (ii) both blades are of a cemented carbide cutting material that consists essentially of tungsten carbide particles and cobalt particles compacted under high pressure and sintered at a temperature exceeding the melting point of the cobalt, the tungsten carbide particles being, on average, of submicron size and the cobalt constituting more than 15 percent and about 16 percent by weight of the cutting material.

52301397, Jul 27, 1993

Sep 18, 1991

7/761456

Willi Klappert - Hickory NC
William K. Houser - Greeneville TN

General Electric Company - Malvern PA

H01F 4102

295646

Groups of amorphous steel strips, cut to appropriate length from a composite strip, are stacked in longitudinally-staggered relationship to form packets. The groups are made up by apparatus preforming a process that comprises a pre-spooling operation that results in the strips and groups in each packet adhering together, even though dry. The individual packets are fed successively into a belt nester that includes a rotatable arbor and wrapping means that wraps the packets in superposed relationship about the arbor as the arbor rotates, thereby building up a hollow core form. The above-described adhesive effect precludes the strips and groups from shifting longitudinally while the packets are being wrapped about the arbor.

53157540, May 31, 1994

Oct 28, 1992

7/967913

Willi Klappert - Hickory NC
William K. Houser - Greeneville TN

General Electric Company - Malvern PA

H01F 4102

29609

Groups of amorphous steel strips, cut to appropriate length from a composite strip, are stacked in longitudinally-staggered relationship to form packets. The groups are made up by a process that comprises a pre-spooling operation that results in the strips and groups in each packet adhering together, even though dry. The individual packets are fed successively into a belt nester that includes a rotatable arbor and wrapping means that wraps the packets in superposed relationship about the arbor as the arbor rotates, thereby building up a hollow core form. The above-described adhesive effect precludes the strips and groups from shifting longitudinally while the packets are being wrapped about the arbor.