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Fig. 5.20 Manual lay-end cutter by Eastman.

often sold together with a fabric feeder, rear and front cloth presses, and a layer
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counter (lay-end cutters by Eastman (USA), Hoogs (Germany), Suprena (Japan),
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Sulee Machine (Taiwan), Maimin Technology Group (USA), others). A set of lay-
end cutter may be as follows:
Manual: the round knife fixed to the rail is moved manually using pull/push handles or a dual
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push/pull handle (for wide-spreading tables) see Fig. 5.20.
Semiautomatic: fabric cutting and the return of the cutter to its original position is carried out
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automatically by pressing a ‘cut and return’ button.
Fully automatic: the cutter works automatically and returns to the original position. The
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cutter automatically counts each cut fabric ply and ensures automatic lifting and lowering of
a front rail.
Lay-end cutters that can cut fabric at a specific angle are also available.
5.5.3 Movable and rotating fabric feeders

Specialized fabric feeders are used to carry out the spreading modes ‘face up in both
directions’, ‘face to face in one direction’, and ‘face to face in both directions’ (zig-zag)
when moving and/or turning of a fabric roll is required during the spreading process
(see Sections 5.3.3, 5.3.4, and 5.3.5). The simplest movable fabric feeder is that for the
‘face to face in both directions’ spreading mode. The fabric roll is fixed on a special
wheeled carriage (see Fig. 5.21). This moves along the spreading table and carries out
zig-zag spreading in both directions.

1 www.eastmancuts.com
2 www.hoogland.de
3 www.suprena.co.jp
4 http://www.sule.com.tw
5 http://www.maimin.com